Supermicro-NexentaStor

Solution Overview

Supermicro and Nexenta storage solutions allow enterprise IT departments to transform their storage infrastructure, increase flexibility and agility, simplify management and dramatically reduce costs without compromising availability, reliability, or functionality.

Running on world-class server hardware, Supermicro and NexentaStor storage solutions deliver unified file and block storage services, and extremely powerful data protection capabilities.

Supermicro and NexentaStor storage solutions are ideally suited to support demanding enterprise applications in physical or virtual infrastructure, high performance media applications, and large-scale archive repositories.

Industry Leading Storage Server Hardware

  • X10 platform with strong expansion capability
  • Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 product family processing power
  • Broadcom SAS3 HBA and dual channel expander backplanes
  • Multiple 10G or FC Ports for high IOPS and throughput
  • High density, high performance JBOD design
  • Titanium Level power efficiency (96%)

Unified File and Block Services

  • 10GbE NFSv3, NFSv4
  • 10GbE CIFS, SMB 3
  • 10GbE iSCSI
  • 8Gbps/16Gbps Fibre Channel

Data Availability and Integrity

  • Active/Active controllers
  • ZFS 256-bit block level checksums
  • RAID 10 and multi-parity software RAID (Z, Z2, Z3)
  • Asynchronous replication

Data Services and Optimization

  • Flash and HDD hybrid pools
  • ZFS Copy On Write
  • Unlimited writable snapshots
  • Thin provisioning
  • Inline data de-duplication and compression

Scalability and Management

  • 20TB to 5.7PB raw capacity
  • CLI and Web UI
  • SNMP and REST API

Supermicro Total Solutions for Nexenta

Supermicro offers Nexenta Software-Defined Storage based solutions in both self-contained and configurable reference architectures.  View the below two sections for more details on different options available for your storage needs.

Simple, Scalable, High-Availability Storage Designed for Seamless "Out-of-the Box" Deployments

The Unified Storage Solution is fully tested, validated, and easy to deploy, manage and support storage solution.  This purpose-built, small form factor cluster delivers enterprise grade, full featured unified file and block storage services and brings all the benefits of Software-Defined Storage, including flexibility and lower total cost of ownership.

The Unified Storage Solution comes in seven base High-Availability configurations including all-flash (2U), hybrid and archive (4U).  These configurations were specifically designed to support your high performance databases, business-critical virtualized environments, generic file servers and near-line archive use cases.

The solution comes with installation services and a 3-year service agreement from Supermicro for the complete solution.

See the below chart:

Model SSG-2028R-NEX2010
SSG-2028R-NEX2020 
SSG-2028R-NEX2010
SSG-2028R-NEX2020
 SSG-6048R-NEX4010SSG-6048R-NEX4020SSG-6048R-NEX4030
Max 8KB IOPS (Mix R:W)  180,000 180,000  70,000  40,000 25,000
Max BW (100% Read) 8 GB/s   8 GB/s  2 GB/s 1.8 GB/s 1.4 GB/s
Storage Media  1.9TB SAS SSD 3.8TB SAS SSD  2TB SAS SSD  4TB SAS SSD 8TB SAS SSD
Disk Configuration  RAIDZ2 : 4 + 2  RAIDZ : 1 + 1
3x Hot-spare HDD 
RAIDZ2 : 4 + 2
3x Hot-spare HDD
RAIDZ2 : 8 + 3
2x Hot-spare HDD
Raw Capacity (TB)  23 to 92 46 to 276   42 to 218 84 to 420 176 to 880
Usable Capacity (TB) 15 to 61  30 to 184  20 to 106  48 to 272 128 to 640
Effective Capacity (TB) 45 to 183   90 to 552 30 to 159  72 to 408 154 to 768
Flash Cache  N/A N/A   Yes Yes N/A
Form Factor  2U   4U
Expansion Chassis Up to 2x 2U/24 bay - all flash JBODs supported
(72 bays total)  
Up to 2x 4U/44-bay JBODs supported (112 bays total)   
Protocol Support   File: NFSv3 / NFSv4 / CIFS / SMB3 / iSCSI / Fibre Channel    
Ecosystem Support Windows, Linux, VMware VAAI, VMware VVOL, VMware Multi-Tenant vCenter Plugin, OpenStack Cinder & Manila, Hyper-V SMB 3 ODX,
Docker Volume Plug-In
Data Services Unlimited File System Size, Unlimited Snapshots & Clones, Inline Data Reduction, Storage Quality of Service, Scheduled Snapshot Based
Replication, Continuous Asynchronous, Replication     
Management Command Line Interface / Self-Documenting REST API / SNMP/ NexentaFusion: Single pane of glass multi-appliance management,
Advanced Analytics, Simple Operations     

 

Supermicro and Nexenta X10 Reference Architectures (RAs) are based on the powerful Supermicro 2U Ultra server as the head node and the high-density dual channel SAS3 JBODs as storage shelves. Supermicro 2U Ultra server platforms are designed for extreme performance, capacity and expandability. With superb chassis and thermal design, Ultra can support the highest Xeon processors (160W TDP), extremely large memory (1.5TB maximum) and can handle multiple (8x PCI-E slots) SAS HBAs, 10G NIC and FC adapters with ease. Ultra is also built with Titanium level (96%) power supplies with maximum power efficiency.

See the below chart.

  NSM-20-X10NSM-54-X10NSM-82-X10NSM-166-X10NSM-198S-X10NSM-216A-X10
SMC NexentaStor SKU  SRS-NSM020-SN0B-01

SRS-NSM054-HA2B-01

SRS-NSM082-HA1B-01

SRS-NSM166-HA2B-01

SRS-NSM198S-SNOB-01

SRS-NSM216A-SNOB-01

 
Raw Capacity

20TB

 54TB 82TB 166TB 198TB 216TB 
Form Factor (total system)  2U 8U 8U 12U 4U 4U 
 10GbE port 2 4 4 2 2
 Software

NexentaStor 5.x

 Protocol

NFS v3, v4, CIFS, SMB 2.1, SMB 3, FC, iSCSI

 Client OS

RHEL, Windows, VMware, Hyper-V, OpenStack, Citrix    Xen

 Controller

1x SYS-6028U-NEX3

2x SYS-6028U-NEX3

1x SSG-6048R-NEX3

 CPU

E5-2620 v4 2.1GHz, 8-core

E5-2620 v4 2.1GHz, 8-core

 Memory (total system)

96GB (12x 8GB)

192GB (24x 8GB)

128GB (16x 8GB)

 Boot Drive

2TB (2x 1TB SAS 7.2k 3.5)

 L2ARC N/A

400GB SSD (1x 400GB)

400GB SSD (1x 400GB)

 ZIL/SLOG N/A

2x 200GB SSD

2x 200GB SSD

4x 200GB SSD

2x 200GB SSD

 SAS HBA per node

2x AOC-S3008L-L8e

1x AOC-SAS3-9300-8e

2x AOC-SAS3-9300-8e

2x AOC-S3008L-L8e

NIC per node

1x AOC-STGN-I2S or AOC-STG-I2T

 Storage Enclosure

N/A

2x CSE-216BE2C-R741JBOD 24x 2.5"

1x CSE-847E2C-R1K28JBOD 44x 3.5"

2x CSE-847E2C-R1K28JBOD 44x 3.5"

N/A

 Data Drive

2TB SAS 7.2k 3.5"

1.2TB, 1.8TB  SAS 10k 2.5"; 2.0TB SAS 7.2k 2.5"

2TB, 4TB, 6TB, 8TB, or 10TB SAS HDD 7.2k 3.5"

 Data Drive Qty  10 45 41 83 33 36

 

 NSM-340-X10NSM-508-X10NSM-1408-X10NSM-3744-X10NSM-3840-X10NSM-5760-X10
SMC NexentaStor SKU

SRS-NSM340-HA4B-01

SRS-NSM508-HA6B-01

SRS-NS1408-HA8B-01

SRS-NS3744-HA8B-01

SRS-NS3840-HA8B-01

SRS-NS5760-HA8B-01

Raw Capacity

340TB

508TB 1408TB 3744TB 3840TB 5760TB 
Form Factor (total system)  20U 28U 36U 36U 36U 36U 
 10GbE port 8 8 8 8 8
 Software

NexentaStor 5.x

 Protocol

NFS v3, v4, CIFS, SMB 2.1, SMB 3, FC, iSCSI

 Client OS

RHEL, Windows, VMware, Hyper-V, OpenStack, Citrix    Xen

 Controller

2x SYS-6028U-NEX4

 CPU

E5-2643 v4 3.4GHz, 6-core

 Memory (total system)

512GB (32x 16GB)

 Boot Drive

2TB (2x 1TB SAS 7.2k 3.5)

 L2ARC

800GB SSD (2x 400GB)

N/A

800GB SSD (2x 400GB) N/A N/A 
 ZIL/SLOG

4x 200GB SSD

8x 200GB SSD

N/A

4x 200GB SSD

8x 200GB SSD

 N/A
 SAS HBA per node

2x AOC-SAS3-9300-16e

3x AOC-SAS3-9300-16e

 

4x AOC-SAS3-9300-16e

NIC per node

2x AOC-STGN-I2S or AOC-STG-I2T

 Storage Enclosure

4x CSE-847E2C-R1K28JBOD 44x 3.5"

6x CSE-847E2C-R1K28JBOD 44x 3.5"

8x CSE-847E2C-R1K28JBOD 44x 3.5"

8x CSE-946SE2C-R1K66JBOD 60x 3.5''

8x CSE-946SE2C-R1K66JBOD 60x 3.5"

8x CSE-946ED-R2KJBOD 90x 3.5"

 Data Drive

2TB, 4TB, 6TB, 8TB, or 10TB SAS HDD 7.2k 3.5"

 Data Drive Qty  170 254 352 468 480 720

 

Below are the hardware solutions that support the above RAs. 

Certified Storage Head Node (Controller) X10 Specifications:

 

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Features:

  • Socket Type: SKT-2011
  • CPU Qty: 2
  • Barebone Size: 2U
  • Number of Hotswaps: 12
  • HDD Caddy Size: 3.5
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