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Supermicro Ultra: Best-in-Class Performance and Virtualization
Supermicro Ultra addition of SuperDOM, with dual direct-connect powered
IT Professionals are increasingly asked to qualify multiple SATA connectors. SuperDOM provides a convenient
platforms for varying workloads, even as datacenter alternative for storing a Boot/OS or Backup/Recovery
infrastructure grows. To meet these challenges in the solution, as it frees up a disk drive tray on the server. And
best, most effective manner possible, organizations need because Ultra 1U and 2U systems are based on the same
practical, high-quality, high-performing systems that can motherboard, it is easy to qualify the system once, and
be “qualified once, and deployed many times.” Supermicro then deploy the same system in a variety of ways.
introduces a powerful, versatile server platform designed One of the most exciting features on Ultra is optional
to meet all of these challenges and more, the Ultra 1U/2U. support for NVMe – Non-Volatile Memory express, which
High End Performance and Versatility enables Ultra to take full advantage of the superior speed,
Ultra offers the most of everything that a powerful, bandwidth, and performance of SSDs. NVMe offers a direct
versatile, general purpose server should offer. It can PCI-E to processor connection, which can significantly
grow with your organization and adapt to changing improve performance over SATA by over
organizational needs. Ultra is future-ready, with features 6x, and reduce overhead with ~70% better latency. This
that can be added and optimized for your specific data best-in-class storage option can improve the performance
center and enterprise environments. Ultra can handle a of many different workloads from databases to hyper-
wide variety of robust computing workloads, with support converged systems. Unlike any other datacenter server
for dual Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 CPUs up to 36 cores, available, Supermicro Ultra gives you hot-swap NVMe
1.5TB DDR4-2133MHz in 24 DIMMs and up to 180W per capability – enabling the removal and replacement of
CPU2. This combination of large onboard memory, high NVMe enabled drives without interrupting the running
core count CPUs, and low latency NVMe caching, make this operating system1.
a best-in-class offering for virtualization.
Flexible integrated networking options for Ultra, optimized Supermicro Solutions
for applications such as cloud computing, include 1G, Supermicro offers customer solutions to help IT personnel
10Gbase-T/SFP+, and up to 2x 40GbE, 4x 1GbE, or 2x manage and maintain their server deployments, including
10GbE. Ultra also has substantial parallel acceleration remote management software, and maintenance services.
capabilities to meet the increasing customer need for These offerings can improve uptime, reduce costs, and
multithreaded applications, with 1 double-width GPU/ enhance the productivity of Supermicro customers’ Ultra
Xeon PhiTM supported in 1U, and up to 4 supported in deployments, as described below.
2U. With highest performance processors, maximum Enterprise Data Center Remote Management
memory, and NVMe SSD slots, Ultra can provide enough Supermicro Server Manager (SSM) provides a
computing power to handle even the most demanding comprehensive solution to manage and maintain
high-performance workloads, including virtualization. Supermicro servers in an IT Datacenter from a single
Ultra is powered by Platinum or Titanium Level power console view. A CLI interface is included which enables
supplies, for 96%+ efficiency power supplies with non- system administrators to automate server management
shadowed CPU cooling. and firmware updates from their infrastructure software.
The Most Advanced NVMe Storage Technology SSM is beneficial for IT environments where a centralized
In addition to being one of the industry’s most versatile console is needed to administer all Supermicro servers in
servers, Ultra offers the most advanced storage the data center. SSM is critical for collecting comprehensive
technologies available, and even some that competitors information from Supermicro IPMI and SuperDoctor® 5
just can’t match. Ultra offers optional SAS 3.0 support, (SD5) and can be implemented quickly and easily.
with up to 12 Gbps bandwidth and transfer speeds up to Supermicro Global Hardware Maintenance Service &
1200MB/s. That can translate into performance gains as Support
high 40%, even when using older SAS2 HDDs/SSDs. Supermicro Global Hardware Enhanced Services provide
Ultra’s storage is made even more versatile with the the highest quality of help desk services and product
