VMworld Europe: Supermicro Showcased Enterprise vSAN Solution for HCI

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI) introduced another enterprise vSAN solution to its portfolio of configured out-of-the-box systems.

Leveraging the company’s Ultra SuperServer systems, combined with vSAN SDS, target HCI.

“Supermicro’s extensive vSAN hyper-converged solution portfolio delivers to customers the ideal storage platform for business-critical applications,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO, Supermicro. “Supermicro systems and broad line of vSAN ready nodes are highly-configurable to support computational-intensive workloads while offering low TCO for intelligent enterprise deployments.“

The 1U and 2U Ultra SuperServers support Xeon Scalable processors (up to 205W TDP) with 24 DIMM slots. Ultra platforms can support a number of NVMe drives and also ample PCI-E lanes to accommodate NICs)to provide sufficient bandwidth for external access through fabrics. These systems are configurable with support of 20, 10, 4, or 2 hot-swappable NVMe drives that can be optimized for different types of applications The Ultra SuperServers are tuned for power, scale, and flexibility.

These solution has passed the testing to be certified for VMware vSAN ReadyNode, The solutions, for balance and optimized performance – from the hardware up through the firmware stack to the VMware, Inc.‘s vSAN software. Native to the vSphere hypervisor, vSAN uses SSDs NVMe for high capacity I/O and low latency.

Integration with vSphere and the VMware ecosystem makes the hyperconverged solution for cloud native applications, ROBO implementations, test and development environments, management clusters, security zones, and VDI.

The company is also launching the Intel Select Solutions for VMware vSAN. Thery are verified, ready-to-adopt workload-optimized configurations for specific workloads across compute, storage, and networks. They help accelerate deployment of complex solutions by reducing the guesswork and in-house evaluation required to achieve performance.