Paul McLeod, Sr. Product Manager, Supermicro

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© 2016 Supermicro
Supermicro SuperStorage
Red Hat Storage Day
Boston
November 3, 2016
Paul McLeod
Sr. Product Manager
PaulM@Supermicro.com

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Supermicro Total Solution Evolution
Subsystem Innovation
1993 - 2003
Server/Storage Innovation
IPO
2007
Total Solution Innovation
• Motherboard & Building Blocks Expertise
• Period of Vertical Integration
• Product Line Growth & System Optimization
• Twin & GPU Architectures Breakthrough
• Software & Total Solution Optimization
• Service & Global Expansion
2004 - 2013 2014 - 2016

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SuperStorage Product Evolution
Supermicro Product Portfolio Evolution
Expanding from Compute to Storage with the
emergence of <Software/Defined> Storage
<Custom Storage Software>StorageAppliance
<Software/Defined> Storage

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Comprehensive Portfolio: <Software/Defined> Storage
Capacity/Density
Throughput/Latency
Performance
 SAS 3.0 - 12Gb/s
 NVDIMM
 All Flash NVMe
Capacity / Density
 Up to 90 Hot-swap bays in 4U
 Simply Double
 Top-loading Servers
 Double-sided Servers
Scale-up
Scalability

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All Flash Summary
SYS-1028U-TN10RT+ SYS-2028U-TN24R4T+ SSG-2028R-NR48N
 24 hot-swap 2.5” NVMe drives
 32 PCIe lanes to 24 NVMe drives
 Performance
 IOPS (4K Random Read):
up to 5.6M
 1600W Titanium level high
efficiency digital power supply
 Quad Port 10G Base-T
 2 Rear hot-swap 2.5” SATA drives
 48 hot-swap 2.5” NVMe drives
 32 PCIe lanes to 48 NVMe drives
 Performance
 IOPS (4K Random Read):
5.6M
 1620W Titanium level high
efficiency digital power supply
 SIOM
 2 Rear hot-swap 2.5” SATA drives
 10 hot-swap 2.5” NVMe drives
 40 PCIe lanes to 10 NVMe drives
 Performance
 IOPS (4K Random Read):
up to 7M
 1000W Titanium level high
efficiency digital power supply
 Dual Port 10G Base-T

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x10-Series Storage Server – 2U/24
SSG-6028R-E1CR24 N/L
PROCESSOR
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/V4 socket R
CHIPSET
Intel® C612 Express chipset
MEMORY
24 DIMM, Up to 3TB ECC 3DS LRDIMM, 768GB ECC RDIMM
Available for EXPANSION
2x PCI-E 3.0 x16 & 1x PCI-E 3.0 x8
EXTERNAL I/O SUPPORT
SIOM support for flexible networking options; 2x USB 3.0 ports
DRIVE BAYS
24x Hot-Swap 3.5” SAS3/SATA3 drive bays
2x 2.5” rear hot-swap drive bays
STORAGE CONTROLLER
LSISAS3108 HW RAID (N-series) or 3008 IT mode (L-series)
POWER SUPPLY
1620W Redundant Power, 80PLUS Titanium
ADDITIONAL
IPMI 2.0 w/ dedicated LAN port & KVM; 4 Pin PWM Fan Speed
control; Thermal and voltage monitoring;
KEY FEATURES
 Dual Intel E5-2600 v3/v4 (Socket R) Server
 24x Hot-Swap 3.5” SAS3/SATA3 bays ( 12Gb/sec )
 IT mode LSI 3008 (L-series) / 3108 HW RAID (N-series)
 24x DIMM Slots (DDR4)
 SIOM for flexible networking options
 IPMI 2.0 (dedicated LAN) with Virtual Media/KVM over LAN
 Cable-arm for hot-swap access of second row
APPLICATIONS
 Storage Appliance
 File servers
 Virtual tape library
 Active Archive and Backup
34”

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https://www.supermicro.com/solutions/storage_ceph.cfm
Software Defined Solutions

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 Generate well-balanced solutions without
compromising on availability, performance and cost
 Derive configurations from empirical data during
the testing.
 Provide reference architectures to prime
opportunities and accelerate sales and deployment
Solution Objectives

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Red Hat Ceph Reference Architecture(s)
http://www.redhat.com/en/resources/red-hat-ceph-storage-clusters-supermicro-storage-servers
https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/mysql-databases-ceph-storage-reference-architecture

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Workload Optimization
Workload
IO Profiles
Workload
Examples
Searchable
Examples
Workload IO
Characteristics
Hardware
Characteristics
IOPS MySQL
MariaDB
PostgreSQL
Medallia High IOPS/GB
Low latency IO
Small random IO
70/30 read/write mix
Compute servers
High core:drive ratio
10GbE
NVMe SSD
Throughput Digital media serving
Server virtualization
(OpenStack Cinder)
Acquia, Bloomberg
Target, Walmart
yahoo!, Facebook,
Intuit
High MB/Sec/GB
Latency consistency
Large sequential IO
Balanced read/write
Storage servers
Balanced core:drive ratio
10GbE -> 40GbE
HDD -> SSD
Capacity-Archive Digital media archive
Object archive
Big Data archive
yahoo!
CERN
Low cost/GB
High write volume/hr
Sequential IO
90/10 write/read mix
Dense storage servers
Low core:drive ratio
40GbE
HDD
Where Ceph and Gluster are used

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Supermicro: TIME TO VALUE
RackCluster
Workload Requirement
input
IOP per GB
(Provisioned IOP)
Throughput
(MB per Second)
Capacity
(Price / Capacity)
output
Or
Turn-key Cluster Solutions
From Public Cloud to
On-premise Storage
Sizing / Guidance
 Workload Defined
 Building Blocks Structure
 Deterministic Performance
 Best TCO
Speeds and Feeds

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ARCHITECTURAL CONSIDERATIONS
FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT DESIGN
Traditional Ceph Workload
• 50-300+ TB per server
• Magnetic Media (HDD)
• Low CPU-core:OSD ratio
• 10GbE->40GbE
MySQL Ceph Workload
• < 10 TB per server
• Flash (SSD -> NVMe)
• High CPU-core:OSD ratio
• 10GbE

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Supermicro/Red Hat: Ceph IOP testing Setup
OSD Storage Server Systems
5x SuperStorage SSG-6028R-OSDXXX
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2650v3 (10x core)
32GB of 1866 MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM DIMMs
2x 80GB boot drives
4x 800GB Intel DC D3700 (Hot-swap U.2 NVMe)
1x dual port 10GbE network adaptors AOC-STGN-i2S
8x Seagate 6TB 7200 RPM SAS (ST600MN00347200)
Mellanox Networking installed but not used in test
Client Systems
3x Super Server 2UTwin2 (12 nodes)
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2670v2
64GB SDRAM DIMMs
Storage Server Software:
Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
5x OSD Nodes 12x Client Nodes
Shared10GSFP+Networking
Monitor Nodes

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Optimal
FULL
18 18
19
6
34 34 36
8
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Ceph cluster
80 cores
8 NVMe
(87% capacity)
Ceph cluster
40 cores
4 NVMe
(87% capacity)
Ceph cluster
80 cores
4 NVMe
(87% capacity)
Ceph cluster
80 cores
12 NVMe
(84% capacity)
IOPS/GB
100% Write
70/30 RW
CONSIDERING CORE-TO-FLASH RATIO
Core and NVMe count based on 4x node cluster –Capacity Full

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8x Nodes in 3U chassis
Model:
SYS-5038MR-OSD006P
Per Node Configuration:
CPU: Single Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4
Memory: 32GB
NVMe Storage: Single 800GB Intel P3700
Networking: 1x single-port 10G SFP+
+ +
1x CPU + 1x NVMe + 1x SFP
OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE
MicroCloud for Ceph/MySQL
https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/mysql-databases-ceph-storage-reference-architecture

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Supermicro’s Ceph Ready Nodes
X10 Models CPU/Mem
Drive
Config
SSG-6018R-MON2
Dual Intel Xeon
E5-2630 v3
64GB
Ix 800GB PCI-flash / NVMe
SYS-5038MR-OSD006P
8x Nodes with single Intel Xeon
E5-2630 v4
32GB
8x Nodes, 1x NVMe per node
SSG-6028R-OSD072P
Single Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3
64GB
(12+1)
12x 6TB HDD + 1x NVMe
SSG-6048R-OSD216P
Dual Intel Xeon
E5-2630 v3
128GB
(36+2)
36x 6TB HDD + 2x NVMe
SSG-6048R-OSD360P
Dual Intel Xeon
E5-2690 v3
256GB
(60+12)
60x 6TB HDD + 12x SSD
IOP per GB
(Provisioned IOP)
Throughput
(MB/s)
Capacity
(Cost Per GB)
Monitor Node

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Monitor Node
Supermicro’s Red Hat Storage Ready Nodes
Throughput
Optimized
Capacity
Optimized
High Density
General Purpose
Backup & Archive
IOP per GB
CEPH Gluster

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Supermicro’s Total Solutions
Turn-key Cluster Level Solutions
 Validated Hardware
 Red Hat Storage Subscription (Turn-key)
 24x7x4-Hour Service
Ready Hardware
 Validated Hardware
 Bare Metal
 Flexible Hardware Service Options
Ready Nodes Ready Racks Turn-key Racks Turn-key Clusters
Total SolutionReady Hardware
Flexibility

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Q&A
Thank you

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Backup

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Supermicro FatTwin And SuperStorage
Systems Power BlackMesh Managed Services
 Challenges:
 To deliver the best customer experience and the highest degree of
security to its users in the public and private sectors
 Looking for an infrastructure vendor that meets all of its requirements –
particularly in regards to TCO and short product fulfillment lead times
 Solutions:
 A 100% Supermicro server farm with over 500 systems deployed in
three highest rated Tier 4 data centers. Total capacity 1.5 PB
 High density and high performance FatTwin servers and SuperStorage
 RHEL, Red Hat Ceph, OpenStack, OpenShift, Ansible all
deployed on Supermicro
 Results:
 Exponential growth and continuous uptime
 Gaining more clients, the most significant being the federal agencies
that require the highest degree of network security and reliability
“By leveraging Supermicro hardware, BlackMesh is
able to maintain its goal of unlimited, on-demand
support while producing cost-effective savings.”
Jason Ford, CTO of BlackMesh
Las Vegas
Reston, VA
Toronto, ON
SuperStorage
SSG-6027R-E1R12N FatTwin™
SYS-F617R2-R72+

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Optimal
FULL
EFFECT OF CEPH CLUSTER LOADING ON IOPS/GB
78
37
25
19
134
72
37 36
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
Ceph cluster
(14% capacity)
Ceph cluster
(36% capacity)
Ceph cluster
(72% capacity)
Ceph cluster
(87% capacity)
IOPS/GB
100% Write
70/30 RW

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Optimal
Scale-out IOP per GB
4x Node Cluster Comparison
80 Cores
4x NVMe
40 Cores
4x NVMe
80 Cores
8x NVMe
80 Cores
12x NVMe