20" deep XR5 Compute,Storage, and Expansion Modules

System Management Module

The resource module provides remote independent initialization, administration, and monitoring of the health and environment of one or more modules or servers and related computing infrastructure equipment, including fault data history, analytics and prognostics. The Resource Manager provides a single user interface for easy access to managed systems’ service processors, displaying information obtained from these processors in a converged dashboard view.  It leverages open standards such as Open Stack Dashboard (Horizon) and Zabbix, a highly efficient, enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution for networks and applications.

Functionality

• Number of ports: fourteen ports
• Performance switching capacity: 48 Gbps
• Maximum forwarding rate: 35.71 Mpps
• MAC address table size: 8K entries
• Packet buffer: 3.5 Mbits
• Forwarding mode: store and forward
• IEEE 802.3 compliant
• IEEE 802.3u compliant
• IEEE 802.3ab compliant
• Supports half/full-duplex operation at 10/100Mbps
• Supports full-duplex operation at 1000Mbps
• Supports auto-negotiation for each port
• Auto MDI/MDIX
• IEEE 802.3x flow control support
• IEEE 802.3az compliant

The RES-HDC Processor Module is a stand-alone server that occupies a single HD chassis slot with two processor sockets, eight DIMMs (8, 16, or 32 GB), and up to three high-bandwidth I/O ports. Intel E5-2600 v3/v4 series processors enable 50% increase in computing density with Themis RES family of servers. Computing density can be measured by cores/volume or cores/kg. Intel E5-2600 v3/v4 series processors are socket compatible with the complete RES family of servers.

RES-HDC Processor Module Specifications

• Processor
  • Two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 series with up to twenty cores per socket*
• Memory
  • Up to 32 GB memory modules for a total of 256 GB DDR4 ECC
• Ethernet Support
  • 56 Gb/s Infiniband, 40 Gb/s Ethernet, 10 Gb/s Ethernet (option)
• Interface
  • Copper or fiber
• Remote Management
  • BMC
• Boot Options
  • PXE or DOM
• Expansion Slot
  • One PCIe 3.0 x16

RES-HDC Processor Module Rear Pannel I/O

• RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet LAN Ports 2
• RJ-45 Dedicated IPMI LAN Ports 1
• PCIe 3.0 x 16 Expansion Slot 1
• Fast UART 16550 Port 1
• USB 2.0 Ports 1
• QSFP (quad small form-factor pluggable) Controller 1
• Status LED Indicators 1
• Power Switch 1 or 2
• VGA Port 1

High-Speed Switch Module

The RES Switch module occupies one chassis slot with a 12-port, managed 56 Gb/s Infiniband VPI SDN/40GBe switch system that delivers up to 1.3Tb/s of non-blocking bandwidth and 200ns port-to-port latency. The Switch module enables data centers to scale out with Fourteen Data Rate (FDR) Infiniband.

Mellanox switching technology provides industry-leading performance, power, and density. The HD hosted switch also interoperates with existing networks, supports Software Defined Networks (SDN), and provides fabric management for cluster and converged I/O applications. Additionally, with a break out cable, each QSFP port can support four ports of 10GbE for a total of 48 10GbE ports.

Functionality

• 12 QSFP non blocking ports with aggregate
• data throughput up to 1.344 Tb/s (FDR)
• QSFP controller supports
• 56Gb IB / 40GbE / 10GbE VPI ConnectX3
• Port-to-port latency 200ns
• Compliant with IBTA 1.21 and 1.3
• 9 virtual lanes: 8 data + 1 management
• 256 to 4Kbyte MTU
• 4x48K entry linear forwarding data base

Management Ports

• 100/1000 Ethernet port
• RS232 port over DB9
• Mini USB

Device Management

• CLI or SNMP

Fabric Management

• On-board SM for fabrics up to 648 nodes
• Unified Fabric Manager™ (UFM™) Agent

Connectors and Cables

• QSFP connectors
• Passive copper or active fiber cables
• Fiber media adapters
• QSFP to SFPT adaptors

Indicators

• Per port status LED Link, Activity
• System status LEDs: System, fans, power supplies
• Port Error LED
• Unit ID LED

RES-HDS8 Storage Module

The RES-HDS8 Storage module occupies two chassis slots with two processor sockets, eight DIMMs (8, 16, 32, or 64 GB), up to three high-bandwidth I/O ports, one RAID controller, and eight 2.5 inch SAS/SATA HDD/SDD disk slots for up to 16 TB of storage with integrated RAID/Storage Controller and mSATA Boot Drive. The RES-HDS8 Storage module includes a companion RES-HDC processor module with two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 series processors with up to twenty cores per socket.

Specifications

• Processor
  • Two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 series with up to twenty cores per socket
• Memory
  • Up to 64 GB memory modules for a total of 512 GB DDR4 ECC
• Ethernet Support
  • Gigabit Ethernet, QDR, or FDR
• Interface
  • Copper or fiber
• Remote Management
  • BMC
• Boot Options
  • PXE or storage canister boot mSATA
• Expansion Slot
  • One PCIe 2.0 x8
• SAS/SATA Drives
  • Eight 2.5 inch SAS/SATA drives (HDD or SDD) in a single removable storage canister
• RAID Controller
  • LSI00200

HDS Storage Module

The RES-HDS module occupies two chassis slots with two processor sockets, eight DIMMs (8, 16, or 32 GB), up to three high-bandwidth I/O ports, and four 3.5 inch disk slots. The RES-HDS module includes a companion RES-HDC processor module.

Specifications

• Processor
  • Two Intel XeonE5-2600 v3/v4 series with up to twenty cores
• Memory
  • Up to 32 GB memory modules for a total of 256 GB DDR4 ECC
• Ethernet Support
  • Gigabit Ethernet, QDR, or FDR
• Interface
  • Copper or fiber
• Remote Management
  • BMC
• Boot Options
  • PXE or storage canister
• Expansion Slot
  • One PCIe 3.0 x16
• SATA Drives
  • Four 3.5 inch SATA drives in a single removable storage canister

System Management Module

The resource module provides remote independent initialization, administration, and monitoring of the health and environment of one or more modules or servers and related computing infrastructure equipment, including fault data history, analytics and prognostics. The Resource Manager provides a single user interface for easy access to managed systems’ service processors, displaying information obtained from these processors in a converged dashboard view.  Themis’ i7 based Resource Manager leverages open standards such as Open Stack Dashboard (Horizon) and Zabbix, a highly efficient, enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution for networks and applications.

Functionality

• Number of ports: fourteen ports
• Performance switching capacity: 48 Gbps
• Maximum forwarding rate: 35.71 Mpps
• MAC address table size: 8K entries
• Packet buffer: 3.5 Mbits
• Forwarding mode: store and forward
• IEEE 802.3 compliant
• IEEE 802.3u compliant
• IEEE 802.3ab compliant
• Supports half/full-duplex operation at 10/100Mbps
• Supports full-duplex operation at 1000Mbps
• Supports auto-negotiation for each port
• Auto MDI/MDIX
• IEEE 802.3x flow control support
• IEEE 802.3az compliant

XR6 High Density Compute (HDC)

Occupies one RES HD chassis slot

System

• Processor: 1 Intel Xeon Scalable Processor up to 22 cores, 44 threads**

• Memory: Up to 1TB DDR4 ECC 2666MHz, 16 DIMM

• Disk on Module: 2 Up to 128GB per DOM

Input/Output

• USB 3.0 Ports: 2 Front

• VGA: 1 Front

• Ethernet Ports (RJ45): Front. Multiple Ethernet Options including 1GBaseT, 10G Eth / SFP+, 10GBaseT, 25Gbps SFP28, 56Gbps (QSFP), 100Gbps (QSFP28)

• Serial Port: 1 Front (optional)

XR6 High Density Storage (HDS) Module Options

There are multiple storage module options, with common specifications listed below. Secure storage options are also available. A configured 2U or HDslim server can deliver four Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and 720TB of storage with 24 direct attached HDD/SSD drives. HDS4 and HDS8 modules occupy two RES HD chassis slots each, HDSE occupies a single slot.

System

• Processor: 1 Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor up to 22 cores, 44 threads**

• Memory: Up to 1TB DDR4 ECC 2666MHz, 16 DIMM

• Disk on Module: 2 Up to 128GB per DOM

Input/Output

• USB 3.0 Ports: 2 Front

• VGA: 1 Front

• Ethernet Ports (RJ45): 4 Front. Multiple Ethernet Options including 1GBaseT, 10G Eth / SFP+, 10GBaseT, 25Gbps SFP28, 56Gbps (QSFP), 100Gbps (QSFP28)

• Serial Port: 1 Front (optional)

High Density Storage (HDS4)

• Storage: 4 front-access SATA, SAS3 or U.2 storage drives for up to 120TB of storage

• Expansion:

  • low/high profile, half length cards

  • Front I/O: up to 2 PCiE 3.0×16 + 1 PCie 3.0×8

  • Rear I/O: 2 PCiE 3.0×16 + 1 PCie 3.0×8 or 1 PCiE 3.0×16 + 3 PCie 3.0×8

High Density Storage (HDS8)

• Storage: 8 SATA or SAS3 drives for up to 240TB of storage

• Expansion: low/high profile, half length cards

• Front I/O: up to 2 PCiE 3.0×16

• Rear I/O: up to 1 PCiE 3.0×16 + 2 PCie 3.0×8

High Density Storage Expansion (HDSE)

• Storage: 8 SATA or SAS3 drivesfor up to 240TB of storage

• Requirements: special rear I/O configurations

XR6 High Density PCIe Expansion (HDP) Module

The latest XR6 HDP module accommodates the latest NVIDIA® Quadro or Tesla graphics card for supercomputing and virtualization applications. Each configured HDP module can integrate one GPGPU. Other PCIe expansion options are available. Each HDP module occupies two RES HD chassis slots.

System

• Processor: 1 Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor up to 22 cores, 44 threads**

• Memory: Up to 1TB DDR4 ECC 2666MHz, 16 DIMM

• Disk on Module: 2 Up to 128GB per DOM

• PCIe Expansion

  • Up to 5

  • Options

    • double wide PCiE 3.0×16 (eg. TESLA GPGPU) 2 PCIe 3.0×16, low profile, half length cards

    • PCIe 3.0 x 8, 1 PCIe 3.0, low profile, half length cards

    • PCIe 3.0×16 low profile, half length cards & 2 PCIe 3.0×8 full height, full length cards

Input/Output

• USB 3.0 Ports: 2 Front

• VGA: 1 Front

• Ethernet Ports (RJ45): 4 Front. Multiple Ethernet Options including 1GBaseT, 10G Eth / SFP+, 10GBaseT, 25Gbps SFP28, 56Gbps (QSFP), 100Gbps (QSFP28)

• Serial Port: 1 Front (optional)

High Density Networking (HDN) – Managed Switch Modules

There are multiple managed switch modules available for RES HD servers: 1Gbps (HDN1), 40Gbps, 56Gbps IB (HDN40, HDN56) and 100Gbps (HDN100) managed switches. HDN switch modules occupy one RES HD chassis slot.

1GBe Ethernet Switch (HDN1)

Switch

• Switch Ethernet Ports: 16 1GbE (RJ45)

• Other Ports (RJ45): 2 (1) Serial (1) Ethernet Management

• Network: Layer 2/3

Features

• Routing: IPv4/IPv6: IP Multicast, VLANs, IETF, IEEE, DSL Forum

• Quality of Service (QoS): IEEE 802.1p priority tagging, DSCP, traffic queues

• Management: Ethernet (http, telnet, SNMP) and RS232 (CLI)

Functionality:

• 48Gbps performance switching capacity

• 35.71 Mpps maximum forwarding rate

• 8K entries MAC address table size

• 3.5Mbits Packet Buffer Forwarding mode: store and forward

• Supports half/full duplex operation at 10/100Mbps

• Supports port auto-negotiation

10GbE, 40GbE, 56GbE IB (HDN40, HDN56)

Switch

• Switch Ethernet Ports: 12 56Gb IB, 40GbE, 10GbE VPI switched ports

• Other Ports (RJ45): 2 Serial + Ethernet Management

Features

• Throughput: Non-blocking bidirectional, 1.344 Tb/s
• Latency: 200ns (56Gb IB), 220ns (40GbE), 270ns (10GbE)
• Network: Layer 2/3 (10GbE, 40GbE) feature set

56Gb IB Features:

CLI or SNMP Management, IBTA 1.21 and 1.3 Compliancy
9 Virtual Lanes (8 data + 1 management)
256 to 4Kbyte MTU, 4x48K entry linear forwarding data base
On-board SM for fabrics up to 648 nodes
Management ports: 100/1000 Ethernet, RS232 port over DB9, miniUSB

100GbE Switch (HDN100)

The HDN100 switch is currently only available for HDslim chassis configurations.

• Switch Ethernet Ports
  • 22 18 SFP+/SFP28 10/25GbE + 4 splittable QSFP+/QSFP28 40/100GbE ports
• Other Ports (RJ45)
  • 2 Serial + Ethernet Management

Features

• Throughput
  • Non-blocking bidirectional, 1.7 Tb/s
• Latency
  • 300ns for 100GbE, consistent latency

Layer 2/3 Features

10/25/40/50/56/100GbE
Multi chassis LAG (MLAG) 802.1W rapid spanning tree 802.1Q
multiple STP 802.3 ad Link Aggregation (LAG) & LACP
Jumbo frames (9216 Bytes)
IPv4 & IPv6 route maps including BGP4
OSPFv2 BFD (BGP, OSPF, static routes)
DHCPv4/v6 Relay Router port, int VLAN
NULL interface for routing

Network Virtualization

VXLAN Hardware VTEP-L2 GW
Integration with VMware NSX, Openstack and more

Software Defined Storage (SDN):

Openflow 1.3 (hybrid, supported controllers)

Security:

US APL Department of Defense Certification
System secure mode: FIPS 140-2 Compliance
Access Control Lists (ACLs L2-L4 & user defined)
802.1X Port based access control
SSH server restrict mode – NIST 800-181A
CoPP (IP filter), port isolation, storm control

High Density Resource Management (HDRM)

Occupies one RES HD chassis slot

• Processor
  • 1 Intel i5-5300U vPro Processor
• Server Management
  • IPMI 21.0, Zabbix, Web Based Interface
• Managed IPMI Ports
  • 16 1GbE (RJ45)
• Other Ports
  • 2 1 Management Console, 1 Serial
• Compliancy
  • IEEE 802.3, 802.3u, 802.3ab IEEE 802.3x flow control support

High Density Fabric Extender (HDFE)

Designed to alleviate the challenges associated with transferring and accessing data across geo-diverse locations, the HDFE offers predictable, distance-independent performance with the HDFE module and MaxDX™ software. Access or transfer large amounts of data up to 75x faster than TCP/IP at 10G/30,000km.

System

• Software
  • Bay Microsystem’s MaxDX™
• Processor
  • 2 Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 series with 20 cores
• Switching
  • 120Gbps non-blocking switch capacity
• Interface
  • Two 4X FDR InfiniBand QSFP+ ports;
  • Two 40GE QSFP+ ports; Six 1/10GE SFP+ ports
• Fabric Reach
  • Round Trip Time (RTT) of 2500ms @10Gbps, 625ms @ 40G

Benefits:

• Streamlined distributed workflows with predictable data access and sharing
• Accelerated workloads and reduced application run times
• Operational efficiency with maximum bandwidth usage and minimal data replication
• Capital preservation by leveraging existing infrastructure
• Minimal downtime and seamless business continuity with predictable data copy, back-up and disaster recovery
• Easy to understand intuitive software with a web-based management interface