VMworld: Supermicro Accelerates Software-Defined Storage With vSAN Hyperconverged Solutions

Super Micro Computer, Inc. introduced its latest fully configured, ready to deploy software-defined storage (SDS) solution at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, NV.

“Our new All-Flash NVMe X11 BigTwin solution is fully ready to deploy, and has undergone stringent validation testing and certification by Intel, VMware and Supermicro,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO, Supermicro. “This Intel Select All-Flash vSAN hyper-converged solution accelerates software-defined storage, optimizes data center infrastructure, and ultimately fast-tracks the process of selecting and deploying hardware and software.“

This company’s hyperconverged solution is the result of collaborative efforts with Intel Corp. to optimize the performance for workload specific use cases. As part of the Intel Select Solutions program, which is a conglomerate of workload-optimized data center solutions designed to simplify and accelerate the process of selecting and deploying hardware and software, these firm’s X11 solutions run on Xeon Scalable processors.

By leveraging these processors, this BigTwin SDS solution has higher core counts designed to support more VMs per node and system. With up to 3TB memory per node, all-flash NVMe X11 BigTwin technology is for in-memory database applications. Each node supports six hot-swap NVMe drives to maximize performance.

Featuring company’s flexible, cost-optimized SIOM networking module, the all-flash NVMe X11 BigTwin supports a variety of 10, 25, 50 and 100Gb network interface options. The solution’s multi-node architecture maximizes power efficiency through resource sharing for greener computing and saves customers on both CAPEX and OPEX to deliver TCO.

Using Optane NVMe SSDs for caching helps this performance SDS solution accelerate storage performance up to 3x with endurance up to 30 drive writes per day (DWPD). These firm’s VMware solutions based on the BigTwin offer vSAN data protection for mission-critical applications.

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