The Supermicro SuperBlade Enclosure 614E has three chassis configurations in this family. These systems can be outfitted with up to 8x Titanium power supplies and the SuperBlade Enclosure 614E-822 features the most PSUs at eight. Next, is the SuperBlade Enclosure 614E-622 with 6x PSUs and 2x additional fans. Last, is the SuperBlade Enclosure 614E-422 with 4x PSUs and 4x additional cooling fans.
As an enclosure, the Supermicro SuperBlade Enclosure 614E supports a variety of 2-socket and 1-socket server nodes. With room for up to 14x individual server nodes supporting compute, memory, and storage, the enclosure supports the power and cooling, plus the I/O and management. Dual I/O switch modules, which are not included with the system, offer 1G to 10G Ethernet. A single Chassis Management Module (CMM) provides for remote management of the system. All of the server nodes are connected to the various modules in the enclosure through the middle plane, which provides both signals and power.
With all 14x server bays outfitted with 2-socket server nodes that would be 28x CPUs per SuperBlade Enclosure 614E and up to 196 CPUs with 7x 6U chassis in a 42U enclosure. Using 1-socket server nodes would provide half that CPU count at 98.
All power and cooling are handled by the 6U enclosure and is what differentiates the servers from each other. The 614E-822 has a full complement of Titanium level power supply units (PSUs) at 8x, while the 614E-622 only has 6x PSUs, and the 614E-422 only has 4x PSUs. Instead of additional redundant PSUs on the 614E-622 and 614E-422, they are instead filled with fan modules.
A single Chassis Management Module or CMM, can be installed on this system to access the installed server nodes remotely. The CMM is a required component for the enclosure and is used to communicate with the blade units, power supplies, and the blade switches. There are two standard CMM modules for this chassis one of which, the MBM-CMM-FIO features two front-mounted RJ45 ports. The other CMM, the MBM-CMM-001 does not support any RJ45 ports in front. The CMM is used along with a browser hosted software interface or IPMI View management software. Three software packages include, IPMIview, SMCIPMItool or a Web-based Management Utility and provide in depth hardware configuration and status information of the enclosure and attached server nodes. Many of the SuperBlades supported in this enclosure may already have a base management controller (BMC) installed. This system uses an open industry standard integrated platform management interface (IPMI), redfish APIs, plus SuperCloud Composer.
*Chassis Management Module (CMM) not included with the enclosure
Network communications are also handled at the enclosure level by one or two hot-pluggable Ethernet switches. There are several options to choose from including 1Gb/s and 10Gb/s. A 25G Ethernet switch is also supported.
*Networking modules not included with the enclosure
As a blade enclosure, the Supermicro SuperBlade Enclosure 614E (614E-822, 614E-622, and 614E-422) support the power, cooling, management, and network functions while the blades are responsible for compute, memory, and storage. This is a high-density system, perfect for data center and cloud applications or for use in a large enterprise computing capacity.
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