Supermicro Cluster-in-a-Box Storage With Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard

Super Micro Computer, Inc. announces the 2U/3U Cluster-in-a-Box (CiB) storage solutions certified and preinstalled with Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition.

Base configurations feature redundant hardware optimized for high capacity, expandability and low latency performance.

The 3U/32TB model (SSG-6037B-CIB032) features 16×3.5″ hot-swap bays, optimized for capacity storage applications. This model ships half populated with 4TB SAS HDDs for SMB and remote offices to stay online 24/7.

The 2U/20TB form factor model (SSG-2027B-CIB020H) features 24×2.5″ hot-swap drive bays fully populated with both SSD and HDD media. This model is a good fit for high transactional and database driven applications providing the continuous availability and performance usually excluded in smaller user environments.

Up to four Supermicro JBODs (16×3.5″ hot-swap bays) can be cascaded behind the CiB solution to provide over 400TB of performance tiered HA storage.

Supermicro will debut its new CiB solutions at CeBIT 2014 in Hannover, Germany March 10-14.

“With SuperSBB, Supermicro built one of the most critically acclaimed hardware platforms for next generation/mission-critical storage applications,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO, Supermicro. “By combining our world-class server expertise with our fully redundant 2U and 3U storage chassis, SuperSBB delivers the compute performance, storage capacity and reliability required for mission critical storage applications. Working closely with Microsoft, we now offer Windows users a familiar and intuitive way to utilize Supermicro’s CiB hardware with all the advanced features built into Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard.”

“Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 is our most resilient compute and storage architecture to date, enabling trusted storage services for enterprise applications at a fraction of the cost,” said Peter Han, VP, US OEM at Microsoft Corp. “With Supermicro’s Windows Storage Server certified SuperSBB platforms, users can rapidly deploy and easily manage high-performance, continuous availability storage within their networks, improving access to data for enterprises of any size.”

With the SuperSBB hardware running Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition, businesses have access to storage innovations from Microsoft, including:

Data Deduplication and Storage Spaces – for maximizing and scaling storage capacity
Storage Tiers, SMB Direct, SMB Multichannel, and NIC Teaming – for performance
Enhancements to Failover Clustering and Hyper-V – for improved reliability

Models:

3U Cluster-in-a-Box Storage Server (SSG-6037B-CIB032)
2U Cluster-in-a-Box Storage Server (SSG-2027B-CIB020H)

Two hot-pluggable systems (nodes), each supporting:

Dual Xeon processor E5-2403 (1.8GHz)
32TB (SSG-6037B) raw storage capacity in 16x hot-swap 3.5″ SAS2 HDD bays populated with 8x4TB nearline SAS HDDs
20TB (SSG-2027B) raw storage capacity in 24x hot-swap 2.5″ SAS1/SAS2 drive bays populated with 4xSSDs and 20x1TB nearline SAS HDDs
64GB (SSG-6037B), 32GB (SSG-2027B) up to 192GB DDR3 1600MHz ECC reg. DIMM; 6x DIMM sockets (3 per CPU)
3x PCI-E 3.0 slots per node (can be used for host or storage expansion)
I/O ports: 2x GbE LAN (1 for IPMI 2.0w/ Virtual Media/KVM over LAN), SAS 2.0 (6Gb/s) JBOD ports
Dual-port 10GBase-T (AOC-STG-i2T) or SFP+ network (AOC-STGN-i2S) Add-on-Card options
Internal 1x 64GB SATA DOM for Windows Server OS boot drive
Redundant Platinum Level high efficiency (95%+)
920W redundant power supplies