Modular 2U Short Rack, Total Rack Server/Switch/NAS/Flex VPX™/GPGPU expansion
Quick Specifications
- 2U high, 19-inch air-cooled rack mount server
- Dual socket Intel® Xeon® E5 v4, 22 Cores each CPU
- 1 TB DDR4 with ECC, 2133 MT/s
- 6 modular, hot-swap subsystems, VPX-based
- GMS FlexVPX™ backplane, PCIe Gen 3 at 8 Gbps (20 Gbps-capable)
- Ethernet up to 6x 40GbE (fiber or copper), 2x 10GbE, 22x 1GbE
- Layer 2/3 intelligent Ethernet switch; Cisco® ESR 5921 router
- 12x SAS-3, SATA III, NVMe (PCIe 3) drive trays (up to 144 TB)
- Hardware RAID: 0, 1, 5, 10, 50, plus Intel RSTe software RAID
- Hardware direct-to-disk encryption for Mass Storage drives
- 6x USB 3.0, HD Video console video (no audio)
- 2x Thunderbolt 3 (no DisplayPort) with Power Delivery
- FlexVPX™ four-slot x16 PCIe card cage
- XPANSE™ module extends FlexVPX™ external to Apex at PCIe Gen 3 speed
- 3x N+1 redundant 3U VPX 600 W (max) power supplies, AC/DC with charging
- Built-in APU with battery hold-up for graceful shutdown, suspend-to-disk
- BMC for fan, temp control, IPMI-based out-of-band management
- TPM 2.0 for secure root-of-trust and crypto key authentication
- Developed in alignment with the SOSA™ Technical Standard
Internal Storage for OS
- M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0, via removable drive tray. (Up to 2 TB as of October 2018)
External Storage/NAS
- 12x drive trays supporting PCIe 3.0 NVMe, SATA III, and SAS Gen 3 (Up to 144 TB using 12 TB 2.5-in SSD)
- Hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and custom
- Controller-side encryption for self-encrypting (OPAL), FIPS-197 and FIPS-140-2 HDD and SSDs
RAID
- 8-bay sub-system equipped with integral hardware RAID controller
- Software RAID via Intel RSTe; hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and 50
I/O Expansion
- 4x PCIe Gen 3 x16 COTS card slots, 5x SAM I/O PCIE Mini (requires COM board), 1x XMC/M.2
- XPANSE™ module (replaces COM module) with two sets of iPass™ connectors for PCIe Gen 3 FlexVPX™ backplane
- expansion to separate expansion chassis (example: One Stop Systems™ 4UV, CUBE or ExpressBox)
Networking
- 2x 40 GbE on CPU, 1x 1GbE + 1x 100MbE on CPU, 2x 10 GbE on COM; up to 4x 40 GbE on XPANSE™ (replaces COM module), 20x 1 GbE on COM
- Integral 22 port intelligent switch with Layer 2/3 routing
- 40 GbE ports can be copper or fiber
Ethernet Options
- 20 Ethernet ports support Power over Ethernet+ (POE+), 25 W per port (150 W total)
Router Options
- Cisco® ESR 5921 embedded router on four of 20 Ethernet ports
Power Supply
- 1500 W max via 3x 600 W hot-swap 3U VPX modules, organized as N+1 redundancy;
- AC and DC; 400 Hz AC available; smart charging for optional APU
Aux Power Unit
- Supports power hold-up to enable orderly shutdown or suspend; available in Li-Ion, lead acid, other chemistries
RAS Features
- All sub-systems swappable and modular; (PSU blades individually removed)
- Blade-based motherboard replaceable and upgradeable to next-generation scalable Intel® Xeon® platform
- Removable SSDs can be encrypted; available as SAS-3, SATA III, and NVMe
- Drive tray LEDs provide visible system health status