Supermicro Top-Loading and Simply Double Storage Systems With 3rd Gen Xeon Processors, PCIe 4.0 With NVMe Cache for High-Capacity Cloud-Scale Storage

Super Micro Computer, Inc. announced versions of its top-loading storage solutions with 60-bay and 90-bay systems along with Simply Double storage systems optimized for the latest 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors and PCI-E 4.0 NVMe drives.

These high-capacity storage and expansion systems are for cloud-scale storage implementations as well as HPC storage workloads.

“As the growth in software-defined, cloud-based storage continues to accelerate, Supermicro helps data centers to rapidly modernize their infrastructure to leverage flexible configuration, tool-less modular designs that can be serviced by a technician, and simple expansion capabilities with our new X12 60-bay or 90-bay single, dual node and HA architecture innovation,” said Charles Liang, president, and CEO. “Our new high-capacity storage systems continue Supermicro’s focus on resource saving and delivers industry-leading capacity for a lower TCO.“

Top-Loading storage systems
The company’s top-loading architecture delivers improved flexibility, modularity, and serviceability that customers require. Both 60-bay and 90-bay systems are available in single-node, dual-node, and dual-node HA configurations. The dual-node HA and single-node configurations control access to all drives in the systems. The dual-node configuration evenly split the drive control access between each node. With a modular, tool-less design, all critical onboard systems – hot-swap server nodes, expanders, fan modules, power supplies, and drives – are optimized for serviceability by one technician.

The firm‘s high-capacity top-loading systems are optimized for enterprise and cloud-scale storage environments. This scale-up and scale-out architectures design offers customers the configuration options of PCI-E 4.0-based RAID or IT mode SAS controller. These 4U systems feature 60 or 90 hot-swap 2.5″ or 3.5″ SAS-3/SATA-3 bays plus 2 onboard PCI-E M.2 slots and 2 internal slim SATA SSD slots. The single-node system also supports 2 rear hot-swap 2.5″ bays for OS mirroring and 4 optional NVMe U.2 bays for fast caching. The system supports 1.6PB of storage at the maximum configuration, plus up to 60TB of SSD flash via the rear-accessed NVMe. The single- and dual-node systems use 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors in a dual-socket configuration with 16 DIMM slots per server node.

Simply Double storage systems
Simply Double storage server is a solution for content delivery. This announcement introduces performance and serviceability enhancements to the overall design to support 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors in a dual-socket configuration with 16 DIMMs while maintaining the same dense storage footprint. Up to 4 rear hot-swap U.2 NVMe bays are supported, allowing users to add flash without sacrificing any of the 24 SAS/SATA 3.5″ storage bays. Chassis design enhances airflow and streamlines system service accessibility to components such as the motherboard, CPU, memory, PCI-E slots, internal drive bays, and rear drive bays. Along with these mechanical improvements, the system can be configured with the options of PCI-E 4.0-based RAID or IT mode SAS controller.

The company has launched these systems in conjunction with its Open Storage Summit 2021, highlighting SDS technology innovations.