Supermicro’s Virtual SAN (VSAN) Ready Node focuses on deploying VMware® Virtual SAN™, a hypervisor-converged solution, as quickly as possible. Virtual SAN provides you with the ability to provision and manage compute, network and storage resources from a single pane of management. Working with VMware, Supermicro delivers an alternative to traditional Fiber Channel SAN based virtualization infrastructure, which is known for its complexity and interoperability challenges. Targeted at a multitude of use cases in Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Tier2/3 production workload and Disaster Recovery (DR) environments, Supermicro’s VSAN solutions introduce a new high performance storage tier optimized for virtual environments that is simple, resilient and efficient and reduces the total cost of ownership. It is a perfect solution for Enterprises and SMB to efficiently grow and manage virtualized infrastructure for maximum ROI.

A Virtual SAN Ready Node is a preconfigured single or multi-node server hardware configuration for use with Virtual SAN. A Ready Node configuration includes specific type and amount of CPU, Memory, Flash, HDD, and IO Controller devices within each server. Each VSAN Ready Node is classified by a Ready Node configuration profile. Defined Ready Node profiles include:

• Large/High – SYS-F627R3-VSN00(1/2)L and SYS-1027R-VSN001L

• Medium – SYS-F627R3-VSN00(1/2)M

• Small/Low – SYS-1027R-VSN001S

• VDI w/ linked clones – SYSF627R3-VDN00(1/2)L

• VDI w/ Full clones – SYSF627R3-VDN00(1/2)F

Each configuration profile Virtual SAN Architecture: provides a differentiated capacity/performance focus, targeting multiple use case requirements. Each profile assumes a target number of Virtual Machines per node, utilizing an average Virtual Machine profile size (as indicated alongside the configuration). Other configuration assumptions include: Virtual SAN default failures to tolerate policy = 1, approximately 30% free storage capacity for future growth, and usage of a USB/memory device has the vSphere boot device.

• Single bundle to procure
• Radically Simple Storage – seamless integration with vSphere platform
• Lower TCO - granular scale-out
• High Performance – integrated read/write caching
• Fault Tolerance – data protection with cache mirroring
• Peace of Mind – jointly certified