SuperMicro Server Design 2

F216D-E5 (X4270M3 Ersatz)

Anzahl ArtikelNr. Hersteller Beschreibung + Link zum Manual/PB Bemerkung
1 CSE-219A-R920LPB SuperMicro Gehaeuse (2 HE, 16x HDD 2.5", 1+1 920W) Backplane BPN-SAS-213A
1 X9DRH-iF* SuperMicro Motherboard (7x PCIe 3.0 LP, Patsburg C602, IPMI 2, 2x 1GE) C60X Infos
2 BX80621E52690 Intel E5-2690 CPU (2.9GHz)
2 SNK-P0048AP4 SuperMicro CPU-Kuehler SNK-P0048PS reichen bei hoher Last auch bei 4 Chassis Fans (im Gegensatz zu X5690) nicht mehr aus!
4 KVR16R11D4K4/32 Kingston 32GB (4x8GB Kit) RAM DDR3 1600MHz 1.5V reg. ECC, dual rank
2 LSI00301 LSI Logic SAS 9207-8i SAS2.1-HBA 2x4 intern (SFF-8087)
1 CBL-0108L-02 SuperMicro Kabel mSASi(SFF-8087)/mSASi(SFF-8087) (SGPIO) 39cm blau, nicht ummantelt
1 CBL-SFF8087SB-05M 3Ware Kabel mSASi(SFF-8087)/mSASi(SFF-8087) 50cm ummantelt, schwarz
2 CBL-SFF8087SB-08M 3Ware Kabel mSASi(SFF-8087)/mSASi(SFF-8087) 80cm inzwischen ca. 79cm, flat, ummantelt, schwarz
1 LSI00300 LSI SAS 9207-8e SAS2.1-HBA 2x4 extern (SFF-8088)
2 CBL-SFF8088SAS-20M 3Ware Kabel mSASe(SFF-8088)/mSASe(SFF-8088) 2m
1 OCe10102-NM Emulex Ethernet Adapter OCe10102-NM 2x10G Datasheet; alternativ
E10G42BTDA Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X520-DA2 2x10G Vergleich
2 E10GSFPSR Intel Ethernet SFP+ SR Optics nur fuer E10G42BTDA benoetigt
14 ST9300605SS Seagate 300GB HDD SAS2 2.5" Savvio 10K.5 1-2 Reserve, Datasheet
2 Z4RZF3D-8UC STEC ZeusRAM™ SAS2 SSD 8 GB ZFS iLog, derzeit nur in 3.5" verfügbar :-((
2 Z16IZF2E-400UCV STEC ZeusIOPS® SAS2 SSD 400GB MLC ZFS ReadCache, 2.5"; alternativ
TL2RSAK2G2M1X-0400 OCZ Talos 2R SAS2 SSD 400GB MLC 2.5"
TBD TBD Supermicro | 3Ware Kabel/Adapter/Flex für ZeusRAM
External Storage
2 DNS-1640D DataON JBOD DataOn 1640D (2HE, 24x S-ATA II/SAS2) SlideRail-Kit ist inklusive (gleiches, wie bei LSI: adjustable 23.5" - 32.5")
48 ST91000640SS Seagate 1TB HDD SAS2 2.5" Constellation.2 Datasheet

*Actually the X9DRH-iF is not really what we want, but wrt. hardware, it comes close to it. However, IPMI implementation/Bios is awefully bogus and without Windows you'll probably have a hard time to see, what's going on - console text redirection does not work reliable (if at all) and graphics console redirection requires (in contrast to the X8DAH-F) native DLLs even so it seems to use a WPCM450 as well - what a bullshit! Also dueto the not so smart arrangement of the CPUs (one half behind the other) you'll probably see CPU overheats and possibly shutdowns for heavy workloads (try e.g.: openssl speed -multi 32 on OpenSolaris/Solaris 11.x) when you use passive CPU heatsinks like SNK-P0048PS - even with a SC219A (has 4x instead of 3x 7 Krpm fans) -> active heatsinks like SNK-P0048AP4 are required! So if you don't like adventures, this motherboard is not for you!

So unfortunately we need to conclude for now (Dec 2012), that Supermicro doesn't have any usable production ready X9 DP motherboard comparable to a X8DAH-F. :-(

Update Feb. 2013: SuperMicro has now a X9DAX-iF, which looks better wrt. CPU placement, but unfortunately one PCIe Slot can be either used for a SuperMicro UIO PCIe 3.0 x8 card, or a standard PCI 2.0 x4 card, only. So still not as good as the X8DAH-iF.

Copyright (C) 2012 Jens Elkner (jel+sm@cs.uni-magdeburg.de)