Supermicro Launches Petabyte Scale 1U Server and Just a Bunch Of Flash

Super Micro Computer, Inc. announced the availability of an all-flash NVMe 1U JBOF (Just a Bunch Of Flash) and 1U SuperServer with support for 32 hot-swap NVMe SSDs.

With a total of 32 hot-swap NVMe drives in a 1U system, the NVMe solution will provide all-NVMe capacity at petabyte scale in 1U of rack space as the company will support 32TB NVMe drives in the near future. NVMe technology was developed to unleash the best possible latency and provide faster CPU to storage performance for advanced computing.

The 1U all-NVMe Storage Servers and JBOF disaggregate storage into shared pools that are becoming the preferred hardware infrastructure for demanding big data analytics applications such as autonomous driving and real-time financial fraud detection. Up to 12 hosts can be directly connected to the 1U pooled NVMe storage. Alternatively, for customers who want to deploy an NVMe over Fabric (NVMeoF) solution, hundreds of hosts can be connected to the pooled performance NVMe storage over Ethernet, IB or Omnipath (OPA). The company’s 1U all-NVMe storage servers and JBOF solutions help maximize performance storage resource utilization and reduce the datacenter footprint resulting in lower TCO.

“With Supermicro 3.0, our enterprise customers benefit from the industry’s broadest selection of first-to-market server and storage systems with global reach, premium quality, RAS security, rack scale management and global services, and our new all-flash 32 hot-swap drives in a high-density 1U system design is the latest example of how Supermicro continues to lead the way for NVMe technology,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO, Supermicro. “With more than triple the all-flash storage density of previous 1U solutions, this Supermicro system will take us to Petabyte scale in a single 1U system in the near future. This new JBOF supports flexible configurations with up to twelve hosts or head nodes and extremely high data transfer throughput up to 64GB per second.“

The new all-flash 32 drive NVMe 1U system supports standard U.2 SSDs, and also Intel Corp.‘ ‘ruler‘ form factor SSDs to offer customers storage flexibility. This 1U system will support a half petabyte of NVMe storage capacity this year and a full petabyte early next year. The system comes standard with redundant hot-swap cooling fans and power supplies along with tool-less drive trays for increased serviceability and redundancy. For accessibility, the solution supports remote system on/off and system management as well as remote power cycling for each individual drive.

This high-end all-flash 1U system is the newest addition to the company’s portfolio of industry storage servers and JBOD product lines. With 2U, 3U and 4U offerings that include all-flash NVMe, simply double, double-sided and top-loading options with SAS3 RAID or HBA controllers, the firm provides a broad selection of storage products to meet stringent customer requirements. Below are a few products from the company’s storage portfolio.

Top-loading 4U

• 45 hot-swap 3.5″ (or 2.5″) drives with single-expander and 25.9″ depth for JBOD or high-performance DP server with up to 205W CPUs and up to 3TB of memory

• 60 hot-swap 3.5″ (or 2.5″) drives with single or dual-expander and 30″ depth for JBOD or high-performance DP server with up to 205W CPUs and up to 3TB of memory

• 90 hot-swap 3.5″ (or 2.5″) drives with dual hot-swap expander modules and 35.6″ depth for JBOD or high-performance DP server with up to 205W CPUs and up to 3TB memory

• SBB – Fully redundant with dual hot-swap expander modules or nodes

• 2U with 24 hot-swap 2.5″ drives

• 3U with 16 hot-swap 3.5″ drives

• 4U with 24 hot-swap 3.5″ drives

The company offers a wide selection of SAS3 and NVMe-based storage servers and JBODs featuring single and redundant connectivity.