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Solution-Brief SuperCloud Composer

SOLUTION BRIEF

SUPERCLOUD COMPOSER
Your Infrastructure Gateway

Executive Summary
SuperCloud Composer is a composable cloud management platform that provides a unified dashboard to administer software-defined data centers.
Supermicro's cloud infrastructure management software brings speed, agility, and simplicity to IT administration by integrating data center tasks into a single intelligent management solution. Our hybrid approach allows traditional paradigm data centers to continue to support their existing operations while allowing their current workloads to have the flexibility to move to a disaggregated infrastructure model. Our robust composer engine can orchestrate cloud workloads through a streamlined Redfish API.
SuperCloud Composer also monitors and manages the broad portfolio of multi-generation Supermicro servers and third-party systems through its data center lifecycle management feature set from a single unified console.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Executive Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Key Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Hardware and Software Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Virtual Machine Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Supported Server Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 SuperCloud Composer License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

SUPERMICRO
Supermicro is a global leader in high performance, green computing server technology and innovation. We provide our global customers with application-optimized servers and workstations customized with blade, storage, and GPU solutions. Our products offer proven reliability, superior design, and one of the industry's broadest array of product configurations, to fit all computational needs.

Today's modern data centers face the growing need for operating efficiency through cost reduction in IT spending. Supermicro understands that IT organizations require a management platform to span multiple generations of infrastructure technology.
IT managers are faced with the ever-rising cost of technology refresh and scale-out of systems due to Big Data. The Intel Data Center Group estimates resources are underutilized at rates of up to 45 %, and data center operating efficiency is only at 50 %. In addition, PUE costs are increasing, data center real estate square footage prices are on the rise, and manpower hour rates are climbing exponentially. In addition, Patrick Nelson from Network World (Reference 1 ) estimates in-house server capacity to be in the range of 20% to 50% even when you factor in virtualization gains.
The traditional IT paradigm resulted in a cumbersome hardware provisioning process, with a fixed ratio of computing, storage, accelerator resources, and a lack of a one-size-fits-all platform capable of monitoring, telemetry, analytics, and intelligent system management. The new SuperCloud Composer embodies Supermicro's approach to software-defined and composable cloud solutions for future data centers. This solution brief provides you some of the key benefits and features of SuperCloud Composer and system requirements and licensing details of the solution.
Key Benefits of SuperCloud Composer
· A single-pane-of-glass platform with a streamlined, intuitive management interface · A standardized Redfish Northbound API Message Bus for easy third-party software platform integration · A scalable management platform without adding unnecessary complexity · A unified dashboard that encompasses compute, storage, networking, and rack management · The ability to monitor and manage all elements of the resource pools in a Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure
(CDI) · Inherently software-defined and automated in support of multi-tiered datacenter-to-edge cloud infrastructure
management · Role-based access control to support modern data center security policies · Rich analytics, telemetry, and intelligent system lifecycle management · Parallel multi-system upgrade and configuration capability reducing hardware maintenance downtime

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Features
Intelligent Data Center
Management
Comprehensive system health monitoring and alerting
Rack management
Device discovery and deep discovery
Pod management utilizing POD View
BMC access
iKVM console
UID management
BIOS harvesting
Asset Tagging Physical asset collateral and collection FRU management DMI

Network
Top-of-rack (TOR) Network Provisioning utilizing streamlined GUI wizards
Powerful network configurator wizard that creates network template build plans
Robust network orchestrator that utilizes a REST API gateway to push network configuration build plans to infrastructure fabric
Switch sweeper
Switch configuration detail
Interface status and counters
MAC address table
Zero-touch provisioning

Storage
JBOF management
Storage fabric configurator wizard that creates storage template build plans for NVMe network fabrics
Creation of storage integration support, including GigaIO Switch
Management support for ISCSI initiators and targets
Management support for NVMe initiators and targets
RAID management and storage controller monitoring for Broadcom 3008 and 3108

Disaggregated Infrastructure

Composed Node

Integration support for GigaIOTM PCIe Switch

OS deployment in seconds utilizing fast-deploy (Centos, RHEL Ubuntu)

JBOF management

Repository to store golden images for fast-deploy deployments

JBOG management
Allocation of GPUs from a resource pool utilizing GigaIO PCIe fabric Allocation of NVMe storage from a resource pool utilizing GigaIO PCIe fabric

Operating provisioning utilizing PXE boot (ESX 6.8, RHEL 7.5, Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, 14.04, SUSE Enterprise Linux 15.1, and Centos 7)
Software inventory to manage Kickstart and ISO images for PXE deployment

Dynamic fabric topology discovery

Fabric configuration and reporting Fabric representation persistence & recovery Analytics of thermal and power for JBOG resource box
JBOG physical asset collection
Interface status and counters

Administration of Management
Appliance
Support for SNMP v2 and SNMP v3
Change IP address/CIDR of SCC appliance
DNS
NTP
Support to send logs to a Syslog server Streamlined installation configuration wizard that utilizes Ansible Playbooks

GPU monitoring

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Dashboard
Dashboard is an information management tool to provide aggregated views of POD health, visualized system data analytics, activity event timeline tracking utilizing standardized icon footprints, providing the administrator at a glance awareness of data center operations. Administrators can click on each component within the dashboard to learn more detailed metadata about system status, composed node status, and allocated storage. POD View

The Pod View's rack management solution provides Data Center operatives the flexibility to organize their data center requirements based on common workloads assigned to a rack deployment either at the edge or physical appliances within a Data Center that are miles away.

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Network
SuperCloud Composer (SCC) enforces a network blueprint where it constructs VLANs to partition specific workloads from segmented broadcast domain traffic.

SuperCloud Composer utilizes a rich feature called network provisioning. It pushes build plans to data switches either as single-thread or multithread operations where Composer updates multiple switches simultaneously by shared or unique build plan templates. Build plan templates for data switches are constructed by a Network Configurator Wizard in JSON format and pushed by a Network Orchestrator engine utilizing industry standardized API calls. During network management operation, SuperCloud Composer also offers a rich, intelligent network agent called switch sweeper to maintain configuration compliance between original build plans constructed by network configurator and operational build plans within switch dynamic memory.

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Fast OS Deployment and Provisioning
During the fast-deploy composition phase, architects execute a composed new node wizard where snapshots of OS images are composed with customized metadata that has been ingested within the OS image. The architect instructs this customized metadata when performing the creation of a user-defined build template.

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Composed Node and GigaIOTM PCIe Switch Integration
SuperCloud Composer delivers a software-defined model, leveraging pools of Composable Disaggregated resources across GigaIO's PCIe switch fabric for low latency workloads

Supermicro's software framework enables Administrators to deploy collections of fluid resources (GPU, FPGA, and NVMe flash) utilizing an intuitive provisioning wizard within seconds. Each composed system can allocate resources on-demand across a scalable GigaIO FabreX fabric and then return resources back to the pool for other systems.

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Composable Rack-Scale Infrastructure

Integration with GigaIO FabreX TOR Switch to deliver NVMe-oF, DAS performance with NAS sharing, and GPUDirect RDMA to GPU systems or JBOGs.

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JBOF Management
SuperCloud Composer uplifts the JBOF management experience by exposing an intuitive drive map tool giving the end-user visualization of drive level presence.

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Physical Asset Collateral

The compute module is a collection of monitored hosts that have been successfully registered by administrators. It is important to note that monitored hosts cannot perform simple system management tasks unless data center operatives complete drawer configuration functions during POD View execution. SuperCloud Composer provides an inventory of fluid pools of compute to manage physical fabric resources individually without entering the BMC webUI, allowing administrators to drill down and look at the physical attributes of a system.

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Hardware and Software Requirements
Standalone Server HA Server Configuration Motherboard CPU Memory SSD Drive Operating System Browser

SYS-1019P-WTR (SuperServer 1019P-WTR) 2 of SYS-1019P-WTR (SuperServer 1019P-WTR) Super X11SPW-TF Single Socket P (LGA 3647) (Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor) 256GB 2X 1TB SATA set to Raid 1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Chrome, Firefox

Virtual Machine Appliance
Hypervisor Support Anti-affinity CPU Memory SSD Drive Operating System Browser Hypervisor Support

Centos, RHEL, VMware ESX Group virtual machines across different hypervisors Requires one unit of CPU, 16 core count 256GB RAID SAN configuration of 1TB Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Chrome, Firefox Centos, RHEL, VMware ESX

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Supported Server Platforms (as of September 23rd, 2020)

AS -2124BT-HNTR AS -2124BT-HTR MBE-314E-420 MBE-628E-822 MBE-628L-816 SBE-414E-422 SBE-610J-822 SBE-614E-822 SBE-820C-820 SSE-F3548 SSE-F3548S SSE-F3548SR SSE-G3648B SSE-G3648BR SSG-136R-N32JBF SSG-6029P-E1CR12H SSG-6029P-E1CR12T SSG-6029P-E1CR16T SSG-6049P-E1CR24H SSG-6049P-E1CR36H SSG-6049P-E1CR60L+ SYS-1019D-16C-FHN13TP

SYS-1019P-WTR SYS-1029GP-TR SYS-1029GQ-TRT SYS-1029GQ-TVRT SYS-1029GQ-TXRT SYS-1029P-N32R SYS-1029P-WTRT SYS-1029U-E1CR4 SYS-1029U-E1CR4T SYS-1029U-E1CR25M SYS-1029U-E1CRT SYS-1029U-E1CRTP2 SYS-1029U-E1CRTP SYS-1029U-TN10RT SYS-1029U-TR4 SYS-1029U-TR4T SYS-1029U-TR25M SYS-1029U-TRT SYS-1029U-TRTP2 SYS-1029U-TRTP SYS-1029UZ-TN20R25M SYS-2029BT-HNC0R SYS-2029BT-HNTR SYS-2029BT-HTR SYS-2029GP-TR

SYS-2029U-E1CR4 SYS-2029U-E1CR4T SYS-2029U-E1CR25M SYS-2029U-E1CRT SYS-2029U-E1CRTP SYS-2029TP-HC1R SYS-2029TP-HTR SYS-2029U-TN24R4T SYS-2029U-TR4 SYS-2029U-TR4T SYS-2029U-TR25M SYS-2029U-TRT SYS-2029U-TRTP SYS-2029UZ-TN20R25M SYS-4029GP-TRT2 SYS-4029GP-TRT3 SYS-4029GP-TRT SYS-4029GP-TVRT SYS-5019P-MR SYS-5019P-MT SYS-5019P-WT SYS-5019P-WTR SYS-5019S-MT SYS-5029P-WTR SYS-6019P-MT

SYS-6019P-WT SYS-6019P-WTR SYS-6019U-TN4RT SYS-6019U-TR4 SYS-6019U-TR4T SYS-6019U-TR25M SYS-6019U-TRT SYS-6019U-TRTP2 SYS-6019U-TRTP SYS-6029BT-DNC0R SYS-6029BT-HNC0R SYS-6029P-WTR SYS-6029TP-HC0R SYS-6029TP-HTR SYS-6029U-E1CR4 SYS-6029U-E1CR4T SYS-6029U-E1CR25M SYS-6029U-E1CRT SYS-6029U-E1CRTP SYS-6029U-TNR SYS-6029U-TR4 SYS-6029U-TR4T SYS-6029U-TR25M SYS-6029U-TRT
SYS-6029U-TRTP

SYS-7049GP-TRT SYS-F619P2-RC0 SYS-F619P2-RC1 SYS-F619P2-RT SYS-F619P2-RTN SYS-F629P3-RC0B SYS-F629P3-RC1B SYS-F629P3-RTB SYS-F629P3-RTBN

Licensing Requirements for BMC advanced features

BMC Data Center Product SKU: SFT-DCMS-Single Note: SuperCloud Composer (SCC) enforces licensing keys for advanced data center BMC licensing and SCC monitor node license.

SuperCloud Composer License

Type of License

Description

90-day trial license with

Trial License

200 monitored system activation

Monitor License (per Single monitored system

node)

license activation

BMC License

DCMS License

SCC Appliance See the hardware requirements above.
See the hardware requirements above.
Monitored system

License P/N
SFT-SDDC-TRIAL (for SCC software and up to 200 systems managed)
SFT-SDDC-SINGLE (1 license key per system managed by SCC appliance) SFT-DCMS-SINGLE (1 license key per system managed by SCC appliance)

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References:
1) https://www.networkworld.com/article/2959532/startup-says-it-has-solved-serverunderutilization.html
SUPERMICRO
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