Supermicro Unveils Total Solution for Lustre

upermicro has unveiled its Total Solution for Lustre on ZFS at this week’s Lustre User Group conference. Leveraging the Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre, this fully integrated software-defined storage solution is based on Supermicro 4U 90x top-load 3.5” 8TB hot-swap storage JBOD, 2U SuperStorage servers with Simply Double extreme performance all-flash 48x NVMe options, and 1U Ultra SuperServer. As a result, Supermicro believes this will accelerate deployment and scalability all the while lowering storage acquisition and operational costs. Last month, Supermicro announced their 2U Simply Double SuperStorage Architecture.

Supermicro has unveiled its Total Solution for Lustre on ZFS at this week’s Lustre User Group conference. Leveraging the Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre, this fully integrated software-defined storage solution is based on Supermicro 4U 90x top-load 3.5” 8TB hot-swap storage JBOD, 2U SuperStorage servers with Simply Double extreme performance all-flash 48x NVMe options, and 1U Ultra SuperServer. As a result, Supermicro believes this will accelerate deployment and scalability all the while lowering storage acquisition and operational costs. Last month, Supermicro announced their 2U Simply Double SuperStorage Architecture.

With Supermicro’s flexible Pod Cluster architecture, performance, density, capacity and reliability are all optimized for scalable configurations, which support up to 1.4PB raw in 12U and throughput up to 7GB/s, 12Gb/s SAS3 and 56Gb/s FDR InfiniBand interconnectivity. In addition, the Total Solution for Lustre on ZFS comes with the latest security, performance and efficiency features of Lustre and is also preconfigured with Intel Manager for Lustre software.

Supermicro’s Total Solution for Lustre on ZFS offers:

• 6U Metadata and Management Server (MDS/MGS) Pod (SRS-MDSHWR-Lustre-01) – 3.2TB raw, 1.6TB usable. Single MDS Pod can support hundreds of OSS Pods and thousands of clients.
• 8U Object Storage Server (OSS 2×1) Pod (SRS-OSS190-Lustre-01) – 720TB raw, 576TB usable. Multiple Pods can be added to meet capacity requirements. Linear scaling of throughput and capacity
• 2U Object Storage Server (OSS 2×2) Pod (SRS-OSS290-Lustre-01) – 1.4PB raw, 1.1PB useable. Multiple Pods can be added to meet capacity requirements. Linear scaling of throughput and capacity. 2x storage capacity/OSS
• Management Server available in 1U Ultra SuperServer configurations (SYS-6018U-TR4+, SYS-6018U-TR4T+, SYS-6018U-TRT+, SYS-6018U-TRTP+) with Intel Management for Lustre* and Supermicro Server Manager (SSM)

Supermicro will be at the 2016 Lustre User Group Convention in Portland, Oregon, on April 5th until the 7th.

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