Supermicro Rack Scale Design (RSD)

Supermicro Rack Scale Design (RSD) provides to the companies an opportunity to create own flexible software-defined data centers or to expand already existing systems. The solution Supermicro RSD is based on Intel Rack Scale Design technology (Intel of RSD) representing the advanced architecture of data centers created based on open industry standards.

Supermicro RSD is the complete solution consisting of the Supermicro hardware for servers/storage of this/network interaction and the optimized software for management at the rack level, RSD representing an expanded set of basic software open source from Intel and the reference Redfish RESTful API interfaces, the developed DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force).

Supermicro RSD manages racks of disaggregated servers, data warehouses and processes of network interaction by means of the standard program interfaces Redfish Restful remaining invariable regardless of the supplier or generation of the server hardware.

The minimum hardware Supermicro RSD configuration includes the following components:

• The management tool 1U connecting everything the software concerning RSD, or software, intended only for distribution
• Two managing switches 1G from Supermicro for connection to controllers of control of the motherboard (Naval Forces)
• One data switch Supermicro
• The extensive range of the X10 and X11 servers from Supermicro, including the TwinPro, BigTwin, FatTwin, MicroBlade, SuperBlade and GPU servers.

The software of Supermicro RSD for control of servers at the rack level is based on a core infrastructure of Intel of RSD providing to cloud operators the flexibility and scalability necessary for accomplishment of such transactions as the organization of pools and configuration in addition to necessary functions of telemetry and maintenance of the block (a set of racks) for management of the selected resources in the environment of large-scale data center. Users can select, manage and activate the grouped node as if it was physical. After end of a task the user just deletes the grouped node and returns resources in pools for maintenance of other workloads.

Feature of Supermicro RSD is the lack of need for implementation of the specialized hardware. The solution is capable to function in all existing servers, data warehouses and network equipment of the current generation of X10 (Broadwell) and future generation of X11. Moreover, Supermicro MicroBlade provides the disaggregated hardware adapted for future needs and allowing clients to update independently the computing module (the TsP+ memory), without mentioning at the same time the rest of the server hardware that allows to save means and guarantees high flexibility.^[1]

2018: Release of version 2.1

The Super Micro Computer company announced on April 10, 2018 release of Supermicro Rack Scale Design (RSD) 2.1 with support of the arranged joint storage NVMe based on flash-drives intended for such scenarios of applied application as high-speed absorption of data, HPC, the analyst of data, stream broadcast of video, CDN and also in the software-defined environment (SDS).

Supermicro Rack Scale Design 2.1

Supermicro RSD 2.1 supports high-performance and disaggregated storages NVMe with a high density of data, providing substantial increase of efficiency of data center, optimization of parameters of use of resources and cost reduction, claim in the company.

To provide optimal compatibility, developers provided capability of Supermicro RSD 2.1 to work with all servers and storages of generation X11 with support of processors Intel Xeon Scalable and also with servers and storage systems of information of Supermicro of generation X10 with support processors Intel Xeon E5 of-2600 v4. Similar hardware compatibility guarantees to clients of Supermicro protection of their investments and flexibility in creation new or expansion of the existing data centers, emphasized in Super Micro. Besides, Supermicro RSD 2.1 closely interacts with other levels of managing software of data center — for example, OpenStack using the program interfaces Restful Pod Manager providing complex implementation cloud of infrastructure.

Other main characteristics of Supermicro RSD 2.1 are among:

• The interactive dashboard providing to administrators of data center complex information on all physical assets which are under control of RSD;
• The interactive, topological overview of a physical rack and the chassis in the user interface Supermicro Pod Manager. Administrators have an opportunity to browse more detailed data on separate chassis in a rack at the component level, learning, for example, the IP address of Naval Forces, the physical location in a rack and other characteristics.
• Analytical and telemetered informations about a system, use of resources, the CPU, memory and computing nodes. Historical data not only help users to understand better how their systems were used, but also to predict possible future behavior of the equipment. Clients can estimate flexibility. performance, efficiency and controllability of the Supermicro RSD 2.1 systems in the Centers of the solutions Supermicro RSD.

The traditional method of increase in resources of data centers often assumes installation of additional server nodes with the fixed ratio of computing, network and hranilishchny capabilities. Considering differences in terms of operation of these resources, mass upgrade of all set of server nodes often leads to premature write-off of valuable investment assets and their underexploitation. For this reason the resursoeffektivny, disaggregated solution for data storage based on NVMe-oF (NVMe over Fabric) from Supermicro is so important for the clients aiming to create more effective and flexible hyper large-scale information processing centers emphasized in Super Micro.[2]

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