Supermicro Systems Solution for Red Hat Hyperconverged

Infrastructure for Virtualization (RHHI-V)

New Compact, Simplified, Cost-Effective Compute/Storage Systems to Extend Red Hat-based IT

Infrastructure

Executive Summary

Supermicro systems combined with Red Hat® Hyperconverged

Infrastructure for Virtualization (RHHI-V) offers a simple, low-cost,

and proven Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) building blocks

to run applications and data storage for edge and branch offices.

These systems are designed to easily extend an existing data

center with a Red Hat environment into the edge. Windows and

Linux Server applications and virtual desktops are supported.

Benefits of Supermicro systems running RHHI-V include:

o Time saving due to its simplicity and a modular scaling

o Lower cost as all the HCI features and support are included in

one price

o Built from Supermicro’s 27-years of proven industry system

design coupled with Red Hat’s comprehensive HCI software

stack

Organizations in industries like energy, retail, banking,

telecommunications, and the public sector increasingly rely on

critical applications that must be deployed with limited space,

budgetary constraints, and a scarcity of skilled IT staff. They must

extend the reach of these applications from the data center core

to the edge of the network. Supermicro system solutions running

RHHI-V are designed for these environments.

In today’s ever-changing digital landscape, organizations are searching to manage and deploy

applications faster while reducing the total cost of ownership. As your IT grows, traditional

infrastructures require added hardware, software, and resources with application growth. For

organizations to remain relevant, IT teams need to remain efficient, effective and, responsive. HCI

technology allows for simplicity and ease of deployment while lowering the total cost of ownership. With

fewer systems to manage, hyperconverged infrastructures reduce deployment time, design time, and

integration complexity. Supermicro and Red Hat have collaborated to create HCI for virtualization

solutions designed to augment your IT infrastructure by merging compute, storage and, networking into

a single easy-to-manage solution.

Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure Virtualization and Supermicro Green IT servers provide a fully

integrated HCI solution that can reduce deployment times from days to hours. This removes the

complexity of having to manage traditional IT environments that encompass servers, storage, and

networking switches while providing the automation of hardware and software to quickly deploy a fully

operational system. Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure Virtualization provides an open-source

platform for deploying virtualized applications with the power of Supermicro’s industry-leading high-

performance, high-efficiency, green computing server technology that provides advanced server

solutions for the datacenter.

Introduction to Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Virtualization

Features

Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) incorporates the

latest Red Hat Virtualization technology along with Red Hat

Gluster® Storage and Red Hat Ansibl® Automation. Red Hat

Hyperconverged Infrastructure Virtualization is a collective

group of proven technologies that provides a single support

stack for virtual computes and virtual storage. Users can

configure and deploy the components on the same Supermicro

green technology server for a reduced IT physical footprint.

This is achieved through Red Hat’s virtualization open software

platform that virtualizes Linux and Microsoft Windows

workloads leveraging Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® along with

kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) technology that virtualizes

resources, system processes and, customer applications. Red

Hat Gluster Storage is a software-defined and distributed scale-out file system that allows for rapid provisioning of

storage based on the user’s consumption requirements. Red Hat Ansible® Automation is an enterprise automation

platform that provides IT admins, with control and insight, managing policy enforcement and governance.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction to Red Hat HCI Infrastructure for Virtualization

Features ............................................... 2

Value of Supermicro Solutions for Red Hat HCI Infrascture for

Virtualization ........................................... 3

Red Hat HCI Infrasctructure Architect Overview ............. 4

Supermicro Solutions and Reference Architectures for Red Hat

RHHI-V ................................................ 5

Introduction to Supermicro BigTwin: Industry’s Hightest

Performing Twin Multi-Node System ...................... 6

The 5

Generation Twin Architecture ..................... 7

Suggested Applications ................................. 8

Summary ............................................. 9

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 need.