Chelsio With Arrays Based on USS Software and Supermicro Chassis

Chelsio Communications, Inc. announced a family of scalable, performance storage configurations based on Unified Storage Server (USS) software and off-the-shelf components.

Designed for system integrators and resellers selling solutions for scalable cloud storage and HPC distributed storage, these pre-certified storage configurations can scale from 50TB to more than a petabyte.
 
All the solutions include Chelsio USS software preinstalled, which upgrades the configurations from boxes with disks into high performance, feature-rich file and block storage solutions. The configurations are all built from Super Micro Computer, Inc.‘s platforms, LSI Corp.‘s RAID cards and Chelsio T4 Unified Wire Adapters. The BOM for these configurations are available to Chelsio integrators and resellers to enable local, partial and derivative solutions.
 
The storage configurations are:

• Unified Storage Array, a performance array that supports both block and file data on a single, unified platform. One Unified Storage Array delivers up to 108TB of storage, 4GB/s bandwidth, more than 250,000 IOPs performance.
• Unified Storage Head, a dual HA head solution available with or without integrated storage. It delivers both block and file data on a single, unified platform. It delivers 150,000 IOPs performance and 2.5GB/s bandwidth per head in a SBB form factor.

"Supermicro’s server and storage Building Block Solutions offer maximum performance, reliability and expandability for the most demanding, data-intensive applications," said Wally Liaw, VP of sales, International, at Supermicro. "We are pleased to have Chelsio certifying configurations based on Supermicro’s platforms that deliver increasingly higher levels of IOPs and storage capacity. Working together, we are providing customers the best quality, performance and price to help them successfully support and scale their businesses."

Unified Storage Array
The Unified Storage Array is housed in a 4U storage chassis, which includes 36 3.5" hot-swappable drive bays.

It is available in two standard configurations:

• ARRAY 4U36. There are no hard drives included. Here, the integrator provides disks for the configuration depending on the amount of storage capacity required for the application. US list price is $24,149.
• ARRAY 4U36-SAS-108. This populated turnkey configuration includes 36 enterprise 3TB 6GB/s hard drives for the maximum configuration available on the configuration. US list price is $51,533.

Unified Storage Head
The Unified Storage Head comes in two configurations, as a dual HA head with integrated SAS storage in an SBB form factor, and as a dual HA head with external storage in a 2U form factor. The SAS configuration utilizes a 3U storage chassis, with dual SBB-compliant motherboards, and 16 3.5" hot-swappable drive bays per head. The 2U form factor is available with dual motherboards and six hot swappable drives per bay head.

SBB configurations are available
with or without storage drives:

• TWINHEAD-SBB. No storage drives are included, providing complete solution flexibility to the system integrator. US list price: $40,383.
• TWINHEAD-SBB-SAS-48. A populated, turnkey solution with 16 3TB enterprise SAS drives. US list price: $52,958.
• TWINHEAD. An unpopulated configuration intended to be a front-end configuration to an external array. US list price is $46,617.

Chelsio Unified Storage Server (USS) Software
Some features of USS include:

• Ease-of-Use: Use the Web-based GUI, Local GUI, or Character Cell interface to configure and deploy block and file storage. This also includes the ability to easily configure the supported RAID cards right from within USS.
• TCO: USS provides a low cost per gigabyte solution. Users can add storage to the solution with no additional software licenses.
• Chelsio T4 Technology: USS uses Chelsio’s Unified Wire technology to provide off-load capabilities that provide some of the highest performance in the industry.
• Mission Critical: It provides for HA configurations as well as replication and snapshots.