Paul McLeod, Sr. Product Manager

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© 2016 Supermicro
Supermicro SuperStorage
Red Hat Storage Day
Los Angeles
August 4, 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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SUPERMICRO
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100%
150%
200%
250%
300%
350%
400%
450%
500%
Industry Average
REVENUE
$2B Growth 36% (FY’15)
Storage 30% of Revenue
EMPLOYEES
2,000 Growth 25% (FY’15)
R&D
Growth 21% (FY’15)
GLOBAL MANUFACTURING AND
SUPPORT PRESENCE
Head Quarters – Silicon Valley
EMEA – Netherlands
APAC – Taiwan
Capacity Growth 50% (FY’15)
5X Revenue Growth Since Q1’09

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

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© 2016 Supermicro
X10 SuperStorage
Optimized Configurations
for
Red Hat Storage
Paul McLeod
Senior Product Manager
PaulM@Supermicro.com

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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
http://www.redhat.com/en/resources/red-hat-ceph-storage-clusters-supermicro-storage-servers

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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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Supermicro’s Total Solutions
Turn-key Cluster Level Solutions
 Validated Hardware
 Red Hat Storaage 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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Monitor Node
Supermicro’s Red Hat Storage Ready Nodes
Throughput
Optimized
Capacity
Optimized
High Density
General Purpose
Backup & Archive
IOP per GB

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Supermicro’s Red Hat Storage Ready Racks
OpenStack Starter Digital Media Serving Digital Media Archive
Storage Nodes 10x 2U 12-Bay SSG 9x 4U 36-Bay SSG 9x 4U 60-Bay SSG
Installed OSD Drives 120 324 540
HDD Bays Per Node 12x 3.5” 36x 3.5” 60x 3.5”
Supported Media Types SATA, SAS, SSD, NVMe SATA, SAS, SSD, NVMe SATA, SAS, SSD, NVMe
Raw Capacity (if using 8TB HDD) 960TB 2.5PB 4.3PB
Memory Per Node (Ceph) 64GB DDR4 – 2133Mhz 128GB DDR4 – 2133Mhz 256GB DDR4 -2133Mhz
Monitor Nodes (Ceph) 3x 1U Servers (6018R-MON2) 3x 1U Servers (6018R-MON2) 3x 1U Servers (6018R-MON2)
Network Switches (10G SFP+) 1x 24 Port GbE
1x 24 port 10GbE
1x 24 Port 1GbE
2x 48 Port 10GbE
1x 24 Port 1GbE
2x 48 Port 10GbE
Cabinet Dimensions 42U (82.4"Hx 23.5"Wx 48"D)
Power Distribution Unit 2x 3-Phase 30A, L6-30P 2x 3-Phase 30A, L6-30P 2x 3-Phase 50A, L6-30P
10 node | Half-Rack
240TB (3-way replication)
Featuring 2U/12-Bay
servers
9 node | Full-Rack
1.5PB usable (7+2 EC)
Featuring 4U/36-Bay
servers
9 node | Full-Rack
2.4PB usable (7+2 EC)
Featuring 4U/72-Bay
servers

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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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