Supermicro Blade Servers

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SuperBlade offers many unique advantages that differentiate it from competitors' blade products and traditional rack-mount solutions.

Customer benefits include maximum affordability, reduced management costs, lower power consumption, optimal ROI, and high scalability - and in most applications, blade servers even reduce acquisition costs.

Blade Enclosure

Space Optimisation

Housed within a 19" industry-standard rack, SuperBlade servers reduce server footprint in the data center. Power, cooling and networking devices are removed from each individual server and positioned to the rear of the chassis thereby reducing the required amount of space.

Up to ten blade servers can be installed in a 7U chassis. Compared to the 10U of rack space that ten 1U servers would normally require as individual servers, the SuperBlade provides about 40% improved density with up to 60 total servers in a 42U rack.

Cable Reduction

The SuperBlade server chassis enclosure greatly simplifies the cabling process by aggregating cabling of ten servers at once. Up to 70% of network, power, and KVM cabling required for ten 1U servers are reduced by moving to blade servers in a single chassis. These cabling reductions continue across networking, SAN connectivity, and management controllers.

Reducing the number of cables speeds up the deployment of servers and helps reduce troubleshooting issues by presenting fewer physical connections to the servers.

Enclosure SBE-710E
Server Blade	Up to 10 hot-plug server blades (14 blade model coming soon)
Module Support	Supports both Intel and AMD based blades
LED	Power LED, Fault LED
Infiniband Switch	Up to two hot-plug 4x DDR IB switches with built-in management module
Gigabit Ethernet Switch	Up to two hot-plug gigbit Ethernet switches
Management Module	Up to two hot-plug management modules providing remote KVM and IPMI 2.0 functionalities
Power Supply	Four hot-swap 1400W / 2000W / 2500W power supplies, 3+1 redundant
Cooling Design	16 cooling fans
Dimensions (HxWxD)	12.1" x 18.5" x 29"
Available Models	SBE-710E-R60 - Enclosure chassis with four 2000W power supplies SBE-710E-D40 - Enclosure chassis with two 2000W power supplies

SuperBlade Module

The innovative SuperBlade touts enhanced system computing density leveraged from years of rackmount server design experience. Applying Supermicro's application-optimized engineering philosophy, each SuperBlade module delivers true server functionality including up to two Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, 1333MHz FSB, up to 32GB FBD memory, optional InfiniBand mezzanine HCA, and support both SATA or SAS hard drives.

To protect customer's investment, each blade module is fully upgradeable for future CPUs. The common system architecture ensures each blade is fully inter-changeable as well.

SuperBlade Module	CPU	Memory	HDD
SBI-7125B-T1	2x	2x 32GB FBD	2x 3.5" SATA

SuperBlade Management

The SuperBlade chassis management module (CMM) provides total remote control of individual server blades, power supplies, cooling fans, and networking switches remotely. System administrators enjoy the management ease and reassurance of continuous onboard instrumentation monitoring (temperature sensors, power status, voltages and fan speed). Remote power control capabilities to reboot and/or reset the server are available as well as remote access to the BIOS configuration and operating system console information vial SOL (Serial over LAN) or embedded KVM capabilities. Because the controller is a separate processor, all monitoring and control functions operate flawlessly regardless of CPU operation or system power-on status.

SBM-CMM-001 (Chassis Management Module)
Key Features	Remotely manage and monitor server blades, power supplies, cooling fans, and networking switches IPMI 2.0 compliant, with KVM over LAN / KVM over IP Serial over LAN (SOL) Virtual Media Over LAN (Virtual USB Floppy/CD and Drive Redirection) LAN Alert-SNMP Trap Event Log OS Independent Hardware Health Monitor Remote Power Control Management Tools - IPMIView, CLI (Command Line Interface)< Supports RMCP & RMCP + Protocols
Specifications	VGA Port, 2x USB Ports Remote Management Processor and sub-system 1x LAN port Video ADC, Video Compress FPGA I2C, IPMI Management 12V Hot-swap Controller GBX Backplane Connector

SuperBlade Networking

Gigabit Ethernet Switch

GEM001
Chipset	Broadcom BCM5345M
Internal Ports	Ten 1-Gbps downlink ports for LAN interfaces of the server blades (capable of 14 internal ports)
External Uplink Ports	Ten 1-Gbps uplink RJ-45 ports
Type	Layer-2 switch
Bandwidth	21 Gbps non-blocking
Trunking	Link aggregation support
Jumbo Frame Support	Up to 9k bytes
Remote Management	Browser-based management
Protocols	Spanning Tree, Rapid Spanning Tree, and Multiple Spanning Tree protocols (802.1D/1s/1w)
OS	Firmware upgradeable

Infiniband Solutions

IBD-001 (IB Switch)
Chipset	Mellanox InfiniScale III
Internal Ports	Ten 4x DDR internal copper ports (capable of 14)
External Uplink Ports	Ten 4x DDR external copper ports
Bandwidth	4x DDR (20Gbps) non-blocking architecture 960Gbps total switch bandwidth (24-port)
Latency	160ns port-to-port switch latency
Management	In-band InfiniBand IBML, Command-Line Interface (CLI)
Power Consumption	34W

IBH-001 (Mezzanine HCA)
Chipset	Mellanox InfiniHost III Ex DDR
InfiniBand Ports	Dual 4x DDR 20Gbps ports
Power Consumption	10.4W typical/ 11W max

SuperBlade Power Supply & Cooling

One of the biggest benefits of moving to a blade environment is the relocation of power supplies and fans into a single chassis versus an individual set in each server. This greatly helps reduce the power requirements on a per server basis.

Underlining Supermicro's high-efficiency power philosophy into the SuperBlade server technology, Supermicro engineers have mastered the power supply design challenge to produce high-quality, high-performance solutions with peak efficiency ratings of 90% or higher. Supermicro solutions continue to outperform and outlast the competition and providing the best technology investment available to customers.

Key Advantages of Supermicro High-efficiency Blade Power Supply

Availability - Non-stop power with 3+1 redundant power supply modules
Cost Saving - At 90%+ peak efficiency, power consumption is significantly reduced, providing a planet-friendly, real-world advantage for our environment.
Investment Protection - Power capacity headroom for future generation processors
Easy Installation - Snap-in installation from the back of the chassis; hot-swappable in operation

PWS-1K41-BR Power Supply
Output	1400W
Type	Redundant Module (3+1)
+12V	116A (200~240VAC input) 100A (100~140VAC input)
5VSB	16A
PFC	Yes
Peak Efficiency	90%+
Input AC Range	100~240VAC
Operating Conditions	Temp: -5 to 50C Humidity: 5 to 95% RH
Fan Type	2x 90mm fans PFC0912DE-6L38 (8000 RPM with PWM)

PWS-2K51-BR Power Supply
Output	2500W
Type	Redundant Module (3+1)
+12V	208A
5VSB	16A
PFC	Yes
Peak Efficiency	90%+
Input AC Range	200~240VAC
Operating Conditions	Temp: -5 to 50C Humidity: 5 to 95% RH
Fan Type	4x 90mm fans PFC0912DE-6L38 (8000 RPM with PWM) QFR0912UHE-6F78 (8300 RPM with PWM)