Welcome to the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Around the Storage Block
video blog.
I'm your host HPEStorageGuy Calvin Zito.
At HPE Discover in Madrid and we've had a ton of announcements here.
One of the things I wanted to cover was a new Apollo Server.
I've got Chuck with me; Chuck, why don't you introduce yourself.
Sure. Hi everyone. My name is Chuck Fang. I'm the worldwide product manager
for the Apollo 4200.
So Apollo 4200.
Apollo has traditionally been an high performance computing product.
This product is a storage product. Why is the Apollo 4200 Gen10 a storage product?
This is actually the most popular 2U / 2P peripheral. So we have more storage than
than a regular 2P so we can store more data in the 2U form factor.
This is the extended so there are two rows of drives
We'll look at that in a second.
How many drives can you support in one of these?
For the large form factor we support up to 28 and for the small form factor
we support up to 54.
Depending on the largest drive today, I think is a 10TB or
a 12TB in the large form factor?
We have a 12TB at the launch (in December 2018)
So that's up to 336 terabytes in a single 2U space.
Tell me about some of the use cases.
I know we have ISVs using it like Scality
and others but what are the types of use cases?
It's very suitable for all of the big data related solutions.
We are focused on software-defined storage or big data analytics
Some customers use it for Exchange or backup
As long as you have the storage requirements,
this is very suitable for those type of applications.
Let's take a look inside!
Chuck, what are we looking at here?
This is the front side of the 4200.
You can see there is one row of the drives
but what is special about the 4200 is
that it is easy to do maintenance from the front.
You can see the second row of the drives come out.
Customers in a rack environment
all the drives are hot swappable and they can
and very easy access to exchange the drives.
Good! How about we talk about the compute on an Apollo 4200 Gen10?
Right, you can see (after the drives) are two rows of fans.
So we provide enough thermal performance for all the cooling needs.
This is a regular 2 processor product. We have up to 16 DIMM slots.
We can support up to 1 terabyte of memory at the launch.
On the rear side would be the I/O.
We have the rear cage to provide different storage capacity.
This is the new in Gen10 which is 6 NVMe SSDs rear cage upgrade.
We can also support 4 large form factor or another 2 small form factor
with 2 full height half length PCIe (PCI Express)
for the different kind of I/O needed.
We have 3 slots designed from each processor. So each processor has one slot for the controller
to control the drives. 1 x16 slot to support up to 100GbE networking.
And the 1 X24 slot that can help handle four of the six NVMe
Each NVMe has 4x PCIe Gen3. We provide full bandwidth for each NVMe.
But without NVMe you can use the x24 slots for whatever IO you need.
We have two power supplies here for redundancy and with Gen10
we can support up to 1600 Watts for all the power needs of the system.
We also have two 1GbE here that come standard with the server.
The first port is where we provide management functions.
And we have two dedicated iLO ports and in a standard rack environment, we can
daisy-chain up to save on infrastructure costs in the customer's data center.
Given this is Gen10, it has iLO5 and all the benefits like Silicon Root of Trust.
Yes, all the same HPE management features of iLO5 and HPE OneView.
It's very easy for customers to use this product like the other HPE Servers.
Great, thanks for the time!
To learn more about this new storage server, go to hpe.com/storage/apollo.
If you have any questions you can always find me on Twitter as @CalvinZito.
You can find our blog at hpe.com/storage/blog.
Until next time, thanks for joining me!