Innovative ARM based server cluster in a 1U server chassis. Multi-Node ARM server scale out computing and storage simultaneously. It is designed for distributed storage and computing. Integrated with Ceph software to provide a energy saving software defined storage appliance.

1. Energy Saving
ARM Server Cluster
Born for Distributed
Storage & Computing

2. What is ARM Micro Server Cluster
• It is a single server chassis accommodate
many ARM based servers to provide high
density and aggregated computing and I/O
bandwidth.
• The cluster architecture offers scalability of
computing with I/O bandwidth.

3. Why ARM Micro Server Cluster is Better Solution
for Distributed Storage
• Dedicate resource on CPU, DRAM, network, and storage
bandwidth for every storage device to provide stable
performance
• Aggregated network bandwidth to eliminate the bottleneck in
a low cost way
• One microserver connect to only one storage device. Reduce
the lost of single point failure
• Low power consumption and cooling cost
• Much lower TCO

4. Mars 200: 8 Nodes ARM Microserver
8x 1.6GHz Dual Core hot swappable microserver
- 2G Bytes DRAM
- 8G Bytes Flash
- Dual 2.5 Gbps LAN
- < 5 Watts power consumption
Storage
- 8x hot swappable SATA3 HDD
- 8x SATA3 SSD
300 Watts
Redundant
power supply
OOB BMC port
Dual uplink switches
- Total 4x 10 Gbps
- SFP+/10G Base-T Combo

5. Cy7 7 Nodes ARM Microserver
7x 1.0GHz Single Core microserver
- 1G Bytes DRAM
- 128M Bytes Flash
- Dual 1Gbps LAN
- < 2.5 Watts
Storage
- 6x SATA2 HDD
- 1x SATA2 SSD
150 Watts
power supply

6. Traditional Server vs. ARM Microserver
Cluster
Traditional
Server #1
Traditional
Server #2
Traditional
Server #3
X N X N X N
Client #1 Client #2
XStorage
device
Network
10Gb 10Gb 10Gb
Lost N Disks

7. Traditional Server vs. ARM Microserver
Cluster
xN xN xN
Client #1 Client #2
Storage
device
Network
M
S
M
S
xN
M
S
M
S
xN
M
S
M
S
xN
XM
S
M
S
M
S
40Gb 40Gb 40Gb
Micro server cluster Micro server cluster Micro server cluster
Lost 1 Disk

8. Ceph Software Define Storage Cluster
Client #1 Client #2
M
S
M
S
x8
M
S
M
S
x8
M
S
M
S
x8
M
S
2x10Gb 2x10Gb 2x10Gb
Micro server cluster Micro server cluster
Public Network Switch
Micro server cluster
In-Cluster Network Switch
2x10Gb 2x10Gb 2x10Gb
OSD &
MON
M
S
M
S

9. Software Define Storage use
Distributed Object Storage Technology
Data/file
Chunk
CRUSH
Distributed Algorism
Distributed object in
OSDs
9

10. Features benefit the performance
• On-board 8 G bytes eMMC for Linux OS and
software storage
• A M.2 (NGFS) SSD slot on each node. You can use
it for journal, cache or Data storage.
• Dual 2.5Gb Ethernet on each node
• Dual in chassis switches. Each switch provides
dual 10Gb uplink and support link aggregation.

11. UniVer Stor: Ceph on Mars 200
Unified Virtual Storage
 Preinstalled Ceph with performance tuned configuration
 Storage for OpenStack use: Cinder, Glance, Nova and Swift
 Object storage for tenant apps
 Reliable and fully distributed storage
 Bucket based REST gateway compatible with Swift & AWS S3
object storage APIs
 Offers mature iSCSI, NFS, SMB & CEPHFS, HDFS interfaces
for enterprise use
 Technical support service

12. UniVer Stor Features
 High Availability: In-chassis redundancy. 8-nodes in single chassis.
 Data Protection
 Replication up to 10 copies, Erasure Code
 Tunable Replication: Chassis, PDU, rack, room, data center, region, etc
 Snapshot and clone
 Daily, weekly scrubbing
 I/O optimization: Auto-balancing, Auto-Tiering
 Thin provisioning
 Management Interface
 Graphical User Interface: Dashboard and Storage management (GUI
 Command Line Interface (CLI)

16. Other Potential Applications
 Web Service
 Content Delivery
 NoSQL Database
 Big Data