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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 1
Introduction
1.1 Overview
Supermicro's EVO:RAIL
™
system is a complete hyper-converged infrastructure appliance. It
combines compute, networking and storage resources into a single 2U, 4-node form factor to
create a simple, easy-to-deploy building block for the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC).
EVO:RAIL is powered by VMware
®
compute, networking, storage, and management software.
Deployment, configuration, and management are streamlined. Ongoing operations include
updates with zero downtime and automatic scale-out. EVO:RAIL is fully deployed in minutes,
once racked, cabled and powered on.
Supermicro's TwinPro
2
™ SuperServer is the foundation on which to implement EVO:RAIL.
The 2U four-node architecture supporting maximized CPU, memory, SSD, NVMe and 10GbE
NIC ports offers the industry's highest density, exactly optimized solution for VMware's
EVO:RAIL hyper-converged infrastructure appliance. With Supermicro's Green Computing
technologies, customers will benefit not only from the system performance, but also from
advanced thermal design and energy efficient technologies such as our Titanium level high-
efficiency (96%) power supply, increasing their overall performance per watt, per dollar, per
square foot.
2028TP-VRL(X) Series Models
Model
Network
Connection
Support
2028TP-VRL001
Four 10GbE RJ45
3yr VMware SW and HW
2028TP-VRL002
Four 10GbE SFP+
3yr VMware SW and HW
2028TP-VRL011
Four 10GbE RJ45
1yr VMware SW and HW
2028TP-VRL012
Four 10GbE SFP+
1yr VMware SW and HW
2028TP-VRLX031
Four 10GbE RJ45
3yr VMware SW and HW
2028TP-VRLX032
Four 10GbE SFP+
3yr VMware SW and HW
2028TP-VRLX011
Four 10GbE RJ45
1yr VMware SW and HW
2028TP-VRLX012
Four 10GbE SFP+
1yr VMware SW and HW
EVO:RAIL can scale out to eight appliances for a total of 32 ESXi hosts, and one Virtual
SAN datastore backed by a single vCenter Server and EVO:RAIL instance. Deployment,
configuration, and management are handled by EVO:RAIL, allowing the compute capacity and
the Virtual SAN datastore to grow automatically. New appliances are automatically discovered
and easily added to an EVO:RAIL cluster with a few mouse clicks.
