SAS3 ALL-FLASH ARRAY

SUPERMICRO // INTEL SCALABLE
DUAL EXPANDER JBOD

TWIN DUAL SOCKET Intel® Xeon®

The SAS3-24-SMC-XEON-T supports 24 x 2.5” SAS-3 hot-swap drives in 3RU. Redundant dataplane controllers are collocated in an efficient 1RU chassis and use dual Intel Xeon Scalable series processors.

ENTERPRISE ALL-FLASH

SAS-3 solutions offer traditional all-flash performance, enterprise availability and improved serviceability characteristics.

Logical block diagram for all-flash SAS3 storage cluster

HIGH AVAILABILITY

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

SIMPLE NETWORKING

A dedicated multi-path SAS-3 storage interconnect provides independent bandwidth and high-availability. There is no requirement for expensive top of rack switching.

SERVER SPECIFICATIONS

Chassis	SuperMicro 1029TP-DTP (Dual Node / Twin)
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 1000W PSUs (1+1)

Drive Bays	8x Hot-swap 2.5″ SATA3 (4 per node)
Frontend Network	Flexible PCIe 3.0 x16
Backend Network	8 Port SAS-3/12G
Host Network	Flexible PCIe 3.0 x8 (SIOM)
OOB Management	Dedicated IPMI 2.0 + KVM (RJ45)

JBOD SPECIFICATIONS

Chassis	SuperMicro 216BE2C-R741JBOD
Power	Redundant 740W PSUs (1+1)
OOB Management	Dedicated RJ45

Drive Bays	24x Hot-swap 2.5″ SAS-3
Backplane	Dual Expander SAS-3 (Fixed)
Storage Ports	Mini-SAS HD 4x Input / 4x Output

PERFORMANCE GUIDANCE

Processor	Min. Memory	Max. Complexes	Min. Latency	Max. 4K IOPS	Max. Bandwidth
Xeon 4214R 2×12	64G	1	38 μs	0.4 M	4 GB/s
Xeon 6226R 2×16	96G	2	38 μs	0.8 M	8 GB/s