Supermicro® Total Solution for Canonical OpenStack

Supermicro® Total Solution for Canonical OpenStack with Intel Based Servers

The fully managed private cloud service from Supermicro in partnership with Canonical is the fastest and most cost-effective path to a private OpenStack cloud.

Supermicro and Canonical partnered to deliver Ubuntu OpenStack, the most popular platform for OpenStack deployments. Canonical is committed to OpenStack by producing high-quality releases of OpenStack on a cadence with OpenStack Foundation releases.

Canonical OpenStack provides the easiest way to design, deploy, manage, and scale OpenStack clouds.

Supermicro Canonical OpenStack Certified Platforms

Join more than 70% of production OpenStack clouds by building yours with Supermicro and Canonical.

Supermicro Secure OpenStack rack diagram

Highlights

Validated reference architectures
Certified components
Fully managed cloud on your servers, at your location
Built in two weeks using a proven reference architecture.
Customize the architecture in iterations based on workload.
Scale out - One rack to many racks.
Greenest Servers for the Cloud - Save hundreds of dollars per server.
Lowest Cost - Best Performance / Watt / $ / ft^²
Start as a pro by leveraging expertise support and services.
Enterprise SLA for your cloud API services.
Robust, OpenStack native data protection capabilities
Your team has access to all machines at all times
Modern monitoring and log management
We will hand over the keys when you are ready.

Enterprise support is provided by Canonical in partnership with Supermicro where you gain access to a global pool of knowledge & expertise. The partnership offers:

Focus on your business while Supermicro and Canonical takes care of your first OpenStack.

Discovery and design service - Together, we design your cloud to the required size and specifications — on premise or hosted or hybrid.
Bootstack service - Our experts will deploy, manage and monitor 24/7 availability of your new cloud.
Transfer Control - will train and ensure a smooth transition.

Supermicro Total Solutions for Canonical OpenStack

Description	Total Solution for Canonical OpenStack
Solution Components	2x IPMI/ Management switches 2x Data switches for data/workload networking 3x Infrastructure Nodes 9x Cloud Nodes
# Cores	Value Option - 288 Cores Balanced Option - 432 Cores Performance Option - 576 Cores
Total Memory	Value Option - 4608 GB Balanced Option - 9216 GB Performance Option - 18432 GB
Raw Storage	Value Option - 324 TB (SAS HDD) Balanced Option - 345.6 TB (SAS SSD) Performance Option - 345.6 TB (NVMe SSD)
Height	25U

SKU Details

	Value Option	Balanced Option	Performance Option	Qty
Components Used
Infrastructure Node	SYS-611C-TN4R	SYS-611C-TN4R	SYS-611C-TN4R	3
Cloud Node	SYS-621C-TN12R*	SYS-621C-TN12R*	SYS-621C-TN12R*	9
Cloud Node Data Disks	SAS HDD 7200 RPM	SAS SSD	U.2 NVMe	54 (6 Per Cloud Node)
Cloud Node Data Disks	HDD-A6000-ST6000NM020B (6TB 3.5" SAS3 7200RPM)	HDS-X2A-XS6400LE70084 (6.4TB 2.5” SAS3)	HDS-IUN0-SSDPF2KE064T1O (6.4TB NVMe)	54 (6 Per Cloud Node)
Services
Ubuntu Advantage for OpenStack				12
Supermicro Cloud DataCenter Design, Validation and Bootstrapping Service				12
Supermicro Rack Integration Service**				1
Supermicro Onsite Support				1

* Please consult "Certified Node Configuration" details, below, for exact CPU, memory and other system requirements for each option
** Rack & Cable (with 3rd party switches); Rack & Cable Engineering Drawing; Supermicro will not be responsible for 3rd party switch configuration

Networking Options (with 10 and 100GB Data Switches)

Standard configurations include two types of Ethernet switches - one for consolidation of management/IPMI traffic and other for 10G data traffic. The management switch is common to all three system options. The data switch options are ranging from 10Gbps to 100Gbps switch.

	10 GbE Data Network with SMIS OS³	100 GbE Data Network with Cumulus OS³	Qty
Management/IPMI Switch	SSE-X3348TR	SSE-X3348TR	2 (per rack)
Data Switch	SSE-SN3700C	SSE-SN3700C	2 (per rack)
Infrastructure Node NICs	AOC-STG-b2T-O	N/A	6 (2 Per Node x3)
Cloud Node NICs	AOC-ATG-i2TM-O	AOC-A100G-m2CM-O	18 (2 Per Node x9)
Software Licenses (for networking)
Management Switch Software perpetual license with 3 yr service /support	Included with switch¹	Included with switch¹	2
Data Switch Software perpetual license with 3 yr service /support	Included with switch²	Included with switch²	2

1 - The 10 GbE Data switch option requires the Supermicro (SMIS) OS.

2 - The 100 GbE Data switch option requires a Cumulus OS.

3 - Cumulus Linux is a powerful open network operating system that allows you to automate, customize and scale for more details visit
www.cumulusnetworks.com/products/cumulus-linux/

Additional Services that can be purchased

Additional Services
Supermicro Onsite Integration Service*
Ubuntu Advantage Server - Essential / Standard / Advanced Server
Ubuntu Advantage OpenStack Cloud Region
Ubuntu Advantage Professional Service
Ubuntu Bootstack Program
Ubuntu BootStack Professional Services
Ubuntu Advantage Travel & Expenses

*Requires SOW Onsite Survey; Onsite logistics; Rack & Cable (with 3rd party switches); Rack & Cable Engineering Drawing

Please consult with Supermicro for all Canonical OpenStack related solutions. Any parts purchased individually without testing and certification may not function as expected. Above mentioned Services and warranty are recommended purchase to avoid compatibility issues. For more details and follow up reach your Supermicro Sales team.

Network Component Details

SSE-X3348TR

(Cluster Role: Management & Data Switch)

48x 10Gb Ethernet RJ45 ports
4x 40 Gb Ethernet QSFP ports
2x 1Gb Ethernet RJ45 ports
Out-of-band RS-232 Management Port
CLI and Web GUI Management Interfaces
Switching Capacity: 1284 Gbps
Wire-speed Layer 3 Routing
1:1 Non-blocking connectivity
Reverse Airflow option available
Redundant hot-pluggable power supplies
1U form factor

SSE-SN3700C

(Cluster Role: Data Switch)

32x 100Gbps Ethernet QSFP28 ports
Fully splitable up to 128 x 10/25Gbps ports with splitter cables
RJ-45 Gb Ethernet management port
RJ-45 serial console
Type A USB 2.0 port
Full Duplex 6.4Tbps Switching Capacity
Regular and Reverse Airflow options available
Dual redundant hot-swappable power supplies and N+1 hot-swappable fans
1U form factor

The Supermicro Canonical OpenStack cloud supports various configurations beyond the tested and validated reference architecture. Canonical guarantees OpenStack operation when deployed on any certified Supermicro platform. BootStack is a turnkey, fully managed OpenStack operation for those just getting up to speed with OpenStack. For experienced OpenStack customers, we offer training services on how to use Canonical tooling to build, manage, scale & upgrade the OpenStack cloud.

Certified Nodes for Canonical OpenStack

SYS-611C-TN4R

(Cluster Role: Infrastructure Node)

32 (2 * 16) Cores
128 (4 * 32) GB RAM
2 * 6.4TB SAS SSD (RAID-1 for OS)
2 * 3.2TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 U.2 15mm SSD (cache)
4 * RJ45 1GBase-T Ethernet ports
2 * RJ45 10GBase-T Ethernet ports

SYS-621C-TN12R

(Cluster Role: "Performance" Cloud Node)

64 (2 * 32) Cores
2048 (16 * 128) GB RAM
2 * 6.4TB SAS SSD (RAID-1 for OS)
2 * 3.2TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 U.2 15mm SSD (cache)
6 * 6.4TB U.2 NVMe SSD for storage
2 * RJ45 10GBase-T Ethernet ports
2 * 100GbE QSFP28 ports
Make sure to add data disks and "NICs for data" separately, per requirement of workload

SYS-621C-TN12R

(Cluster Role: "Balanced" Cloud Node)

48 (2 * 24) Cores
1024 (16 * 64) GB RAM
2 * 6.4TB SAS SSD (RAID-1 for OS)
2 * 3.2TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 U.2 15mm SSD (cache)
6 * 6.4TB SAS SSD for storage
2 * RJ45 10GBase-T Ethernet ports
2 * 100GbE QSFP28 ports
Make sure to add data disks and "NICs for data" separately, per requirement of workload

SYS-621C-TN12R

(Cluster Role: "Value" Cloud Node)

32 (2 * 16) Cores
512 (16 * 32) GB RAM
2 * 6.4TB SAS SSD (RAID-1 for OS)
2 * 3.2TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 U.2 15mm SSD (cache)
6 * 6TB SAS HDD for storage
2 * RJ45 10GBase-T Ethernet ports
2 * 100GbE QSFP28 ports
Make sure to add data disks and "NICs for data" separately, per requirement of workload