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Red Hat Storage Day Los Angeles

August 4, 2016

Paul McLeodSr. Product ManagerPaulM@Supermicro.com

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Supermicro Total Solution Evolution

Subsystem Innovation

1993 - 2003

Server/Storage Innovation

IPO2007

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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500% REVENUE$2B Growth 36% (FY’15) Storage 30% of RevenueEMPLOYEES2,000 Growth 25% (FY’15)

R&DGrowth 21% (FY’15)

GLOBAL MANUFACTURING AND SUPPORT PRESENCEHead Quarters – Silicon ValleyEMEA – NetherlandsAPAC – TaiwanCapacity Growth 50% (FY’15)

5X Revenue Growth Since Q1’09

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Supermicro Product Portfolio Evolution

Expanding from Compute to Storage with the emergence of <Software/Defined> Storage

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https://www.supermicro.com/solutions/storage_ceph.cfm

Software Defined Solutions

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X10 SuperStorage

Optimized Configurations for

Red Hat Storage

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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

WorkloadExamples

Searchable Examples

Workload IO Characteristics

HardwareCharacteristics

IOPS MySQLMariaDBPostgreSQL

Medallia High IOPS/GBLow latency IOSmall random IO70/30 read/write mix

Compute serversHigh core:drive ratio10GbENVMe SSD

Throughput Digital media servingServer virtualization(OpenStack Cinder)

Acquia, BloombergTarget, Walmartyahoo!, Facebook, Intuit

High MB/Sec/GBLatency consistencyLarge sequential IOBalanced read/write

Storage serversBalanced core:drive ratio10GbE -> 40GbEHDD -> SSD

Capacity-Archive

Digital media archiveObject archiveBig Data archive

yahoo!CERN

Low cost/GBHigh write volume/hrSequential IO90/10 write/read mix

Dense storage serversLow core:drive ratio40GbEHDD

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)

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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 HardwareFlexibility

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Monitor Node

Supermicro’s Red Hat Storage Ready Nodes

ThroughputOptimized

CapacityOptimized

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 ArchiveStorage Nodes 10x 2U 12-Bay SSG 9x 4U 36-Bay SSG 9x 4U 60-Bay SSGInstalled OSD Drives 120 324 540HDD 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, NVMeRaw Capacity (if using 8TB HDD) 960TB 2.5PB 4.3PBMemory Per Node (Ceph) 64GB DDR4 – 2133Mhz 128GB DDR4 – 2133Mhz 256GB DDR4 -2133MhzMonitor 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-Rack240TB (3-way replication)

Featuring 2U/12-Bay servers

9 node | Full-Rack1.5PB usable (7+2 EC)

Featuring 4U/36-Bay servers

9 node | Full-Rack2.4PB 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 VegasReston, VA

Toronto, ON

SuperStorage SSG-6027R-E1R12N FatTwin™

SYS-F617R2-R72+

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