100% NVMe ALL FLASH ARRAY

High Availability All-NVMe All-Flash Storage array based on the 2RU SuperMicro 2029U-TN24R4T Intel Skylake platform.

SMC w/ Intel Cascade Lake
Dense Capacity & High Performance

DUAL SOCKET Intel® Xeon®

The NVME-48-SMC-XEON provides 48 x 2.5” NVMe U.2 hot-swap drive bays in 2RU and uses dual Intel Xeon Scalable series processors for maximum performance.

HIGH PERFORMANCE

All-NVMe storage provides best case latency, IOPS & quality of service with minimal disruption during hardware failure and recovery.

Logical block diagram for ethernet attached NVMe all-flash storage array

HIGH AVAILABILITY

Transparent fail-over, self-healing storage & non-disruptive upgrades without custom client software, kernel drivers or complex host configuration.

FLEXIBLE NETWORKING

A dedicated 100Gbe storage interconnect provides independent high bandwidth and low latency between peers, eliminating requirements for expensive top of rack switching. This unit supports flexible network options via a x16 PCIe expansion slot. There is no need for specialized network hardware or host software.

SERVER SPECIFICATIONS

Chassis	SuperMicro 2029U-TN24R4T
Processor	Dual Socket Intel Xeon (Cascade Lake)
Memory	DDR4 2666MHz ECC RDIMM
Onboard Storage	M.2 NVMe (up to 110mm), 2 SATA DOMS
Power	Redundant 1600W PSUs (1+1)

Drive Bays	24x Hot-swap 2.5″ U.2 NVMe
Frontend Network	Flexible PCIe 3.0 x16 + x8
Backend Network	100Gbe QSFP28
Host Network	4x 10GBase-T (LOM)
OOB Management	Dedicated IPMI 2.0 + KVM (RJ45)

PERFORMANCE GUIDANCE

Processor	Min. Memory	Max. Engines	Min. Latency	Max. 4K IOPS	Max. Bandwidth
Xeon 4214R 2×12	64G	1	28 μs	0.5 M	4 GB/s
Xeon 6226R 2×16	96G	2	28 μs	1.0 M	8 GB/s
Xeon 6248R 2×24	128G	3	28 μs	1.5 M	12 GB/s
Xeon 6248R 2×24	192G	4	28 μs	2.0 M	16 GB/s