Supermicro superserver 2028TP-VRL Serie User manual

USER’S MANUAL

Revision 1.0

SuperServer

®

2028TP-VRL SERiES

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Preface

About this Manual

This manual is written for professional system integrators and PC technicians. It provides

information for the installation and use of the 2028TP-VRL Series EVO:RAIL appliance.

Installation and maintainance should be performed by experienced technicians only.

(http://www.supermicro.com).

Notes

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• Product safety info: http://www.supermicro.com/about/policies/safety_information.cfm

If you have any questions, please contact our support team at:

[email protected]

This manual may be periodically updated without notice. Please check the Supermicro website

for possible updates to the manual revision level.

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Warning! Indicates important information given to prevent equipment/property damage

or personal injury.

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Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Overview ...............................................................................................................................7

1.2 Server Chassis Features ......................................................................................................9

Control Panel ......................................................................................................................9

Server Features: Front ......................................................................................................10

Server Features: Rear.......................................................................................................11

Input/Output Ports .......................................................................................................... 11

1.3 Software .............................................................................................................................12

Chapter 2 Initial Conguration

2.1 Prerequisites .....................................................................................................................13

2.2 EVO:RAIL Deployment .......................................................................................................13

2.3 EVO:RAIL Initial Conguration ...........................................................................................14

Overview ...........................................................................................................................14

Customization ....................................................................................................................15

Initial Conguration Walk-Through ....................................................................................15

2.4 JSON Conguration File ....................................................................................................20

Upload Conguration File ................................................................................................20

JSON File Format and Valid Values .................................................................................21

Modication Instructions for the Sample JSON File ........................................................22

2.5 Fan Control Options ...........................................................................................................25

Altitude .............................................................................................................................25

Set Fan Prole .................................................................................................................25

Fan PWM Offset ..............................................................................................................25

Quiet Fan Idle Mode ........................................................................................................26

Chapter 3 Installation in a Rack

3.1 Preparing for Setup ............................................................................................................27

Choosing a Setup Location ...............................................................................................27

Rack Precautions ..............................................................................................................27

Server Precautions ............................................................................................................28

Rack Mounting Considerations .........................................................................................28

Ambient Operating Temperature ....................................................................................28

Airow ............................................................................................................................28

Mechanical Loading .......................................................................................................28

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Circuit Overloading ........................................................................................................28

Reliable Ground .............................................................................................................29

3.2 Installing the Rails .............................................................................................................30

Identifying the Rails .........................................................................................................30

Releasing the Inner Rail .................................................................................................31

Installing the Inner Rails ..................................................................................................32

Assembling the Outer Rails .............................................................................................33

Installing the Outer Rails onto the Rack ..........................................................................34

3.3 Installing the Chassis into a Rack .....................................................................................35

Removing the Chassis from the Rack ..............................................................................36

Chapter 4 Hardware Maintenance

4.1 Removing Power ................................................................................................................37

4.2 Accessing the System ........................................................................................................38

4.3 Chassis Components .........................................................................................................39

Storage Drives ..................................................................................................................39

Replacing a Drive ..........................................................................................................40

Drive Carrier Indicators ..................................................................................................41

System Cooling .................................................................................................................42

Optional Fan Congurations ..........................................................................................42

Changing a System Fan ................................................................................................42

4.4 Power Supply .....................................................................................................................44

Power Supply Replacement ..............................................................................................44

Appendix A Checklist and Network Conguration Table

A.1 Pre-installation Checklist ....................................................................................................47

A.2 Network Conguration Table ..............................................................................................48

A.3 EVO:RAIL Default Conguration Table ..............................................................................49

Appendix B Standardized Warning Statements for AC Systems

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Preface

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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-Dened Data Center (SDDC).

EVO:RAIL is powered by VMware

®

compute, networking, storage, and management software.

Deployment, conguration, 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 benet not only from the system performance, but also from

advanced thermal design and energy efcient technologies such as our Titanium level high-

efciency (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,

conguration, 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.

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System Specications

Serverboard

X10DRT-P, one per node

Chassis

2U four node server with redundant hot-swap power supplies, SC217HQ+-R2K02B

Virtual Machine Density

For 2028TP-VRL, up to 100 per appliance

Fpr 2028TP-VRLX, up to 200 per appliance

CPU

For 2028TP-VRL, dual Intel E5-2630v3 (8 cores per CPU)

For 2028TP-VRLX, dual Intel E5-2670v3 (12 cores per CPU)

Memory

For 2028TP-VRL, 192GB per node (12x 16GB DDR4)

For 2028TP-VRLX, 512GB per node (16x 32GB DDR4)

Storage Drives

Twenty-four drives per appliance, six per node

Software

EVO:RAIL Deployment, Conguration, and Management;

vSphere Enterprise Plus, Virtual SAN, vCenter Server, vCenter Log Insight

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Control Panel Features

Item Features Description

1 Power button

The main power switch applies or removes primary power from the power supply

to the server but maintains standby power. To perform most maintenance tasks,

unplug the system to remove all power..

2 NIC LED Indicates network activity on the LAN when ashing.

3 Information LED Alerts operator to several states, as noted in the table below

4 UID button/LED

The uinit identication (UID) button turns on or off the blue light function of the

Information LED and a blue LED on the rear of the chassis. These are used to

locate the server in large racks and server banks.

Information LED

Status Description

Continuously on and

red

An overheat condition has occured.

(This may be caused by cable congestion.)

Blinking red (1Hz) Fan failure, check for an inoperative fan.

Blinking red (0.25Hz)

Power failure, check for a non-operational power

supply.

Solid blue

Local UID has been activated. Use this function

to locate the server in a rack mount environment.

Blinking blue

Remote UID is on. Use this function to identify

the server from a remote location.

Figure 1-1. Control Panel View

1.2 Server Chassis Features

Control Panel

The switches and status LEDs on the control panel are described below.

1

4

3

2

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Figure 1-2. Chassis Front View

Server Features: Front

The illustration below shows the features included on the front of the chassis.

1

1 1

Twenty-four drive bays

Control Panel (4)

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Rear Chassis Features

Item Feature Description

1 Power module Two redundant modules

2 I/O Ports (Detail below)

3 10Gb LAN Network ports, RJ45 or SFP+

Figure 1-3. Chassis Rear View

Server Features: Rear

The illustration below shows the features included on the rear of the chassis.

3

One of four nodes

1

2

Figure 1-4. Rear Input/Output Ports

Rear Input/Output Ports

Item Feature

1 Dedicated IPMI LAN

2 USB 3.0 Ports (2)

3 Do not use; LAN (2)

4 10 Gb LAN (2)

5 VGA Port

6 UID Switch and light

Input/Output Ports

6

5

4

3

2

1

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1.3 Software

EVO:RAIL delivers the rst hyper-converged infrastructure appliance 100% powered by

VMware’s proven suite of core products. The EVO:RAIL software bundle, preloaded onto the

server, is comprised of:

• EVO:RAIL Deployment, Conguration, and Management

• VMware vSphere

®

Enterprise Plus, including ESXi for compute

• Virtual SAN for storage

• vCenter Server

™

• vRealize Log Insight

™

EVO:RAIL is optimized for the new VMware user as well as for experienced administrators.

Minimal IT experience is required to deploy, congure, and manage EVO:RAIL, allowing it

to be used where there is limited or no IT staff on-site. Since EVO:RAIL utilizes VMware’s

core products, administrators can apply existing VMware knowledge, best practices, and

processes.

EVO:RAIL leverages the same database as vCenter Server, so any changes in EVO:RAIL

Initial Conguration and Management are also reected in vCenter Server and vice-versa.

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Chapter 2

Initial Conguration

2.1 Prerequisites

To ensure the correct functioning of EVO:RAIL and an optimal end-to-end user experience,

understanding the recommendations and requirements in the EVO:RAIL documentation is

essential. Availability of resources and workload is critical for any environment, but even more

so in a hyper-converged environment as compute, networking, storage, and management are

provided on the same platform.

Before you proceed with the deployment and conguration of your new EVO:RAIL appliance:

• Please review the EVO:RAIL Setup Checklist and ll in the EVO:RAIL Network Congu-

ration Table by following all of the steps listed in the VMware EVO:RAIL Network User

Guide. This is essential to help ensure smooth deployment and conguration.

• Please review the physical power, space and cooling requirements for the expected resil-

iency level of the appliance.

2.2 EVO:RAIL Deployment

EVO:RAIL deployment is simple, with just four steps:

Step 1. Rack and cable: connect the 10GbE adapters on EVO:RAIL to your Top of Rack

(TOR) switch(es). See Chapter 3 for rack installation instructions.

Step 2. Power on each node on your EVO:RAIL appliance.

Step 3. Connect a workstation/laptop (any operating system) to the TOR switch and congure

the network address to talk to EVO:RAIL / vCenter Server.

For example:

IP address: 192.168.10.210; netmask: 255.255.255.0; gateway: 192.168.10.254

Step 4. Browse to the EVO:RAIL IP address (for example, https://192.168.10.200:7443). If

you encounter a browser message about certicates, click Proceed anyway. The

latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer 10+ are all supported. The

minimum recommended screen resolution is 1280x1024.

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Figure 1. Initial user interface

2.3 EVO:RAIL Initial Conguration

Overview

After you have completely lled out your EVO:RAIL Network Conguration Table, you are

ready to begin EVO:RAIL Initial Conguration. There are four ways to congure EVO:RAIL.

Default values are based on a JSON-formatted le described in Appendix A.

• Customize

When you customize EVO:RAIL, elds are pre-populated with default values, except for

the ESXi and vCenter Server passwords. You can easily change these values in the user

interface or by uploading your own conguration le.

• Just Go

EVO:RAIL automatically congures the IP addresses and hostnames from a default

conguration le. All you need to do is congure your TOR switch, click the Just Go button,

and create the passwords for ESXi and vCenter Server. Either VMware or your QEP denes

the values in default conguration le.

• Upload Conguration File

This feature, available in Customize, allows you to select and upload your own JSON

conguration le. The Upload Conguration File button is shown (and marked with an

arrow) in the lower right corner of Figure 2. See Appendix A for the format and valid values.

Sample EVO:RAIL JSON conguration les for each software release are found in VMware

Knowledge Base #2106961.

• Automatic Scale-Out

When a new appliance is detected by an existing appliance, the Add EVO:RAIL Appliance

button is displayed in the EVO:RAIL Management user interface. EVO:RAIL automatically

distributes the conguration to seamlessly add new appliances. If you have already

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congured enough IP addresses for expansion (which we recommend during initial

conguration), all you do is supply the passwords that you created for the rst appliance

in the cluster. If you do not have enough IP addresses, you will be prompted to add them

and the passwords – nothing else!

EVO:RAIL veries the conguration data, and then builds the appliance. EVO:RAIL implements

data services, creates the new ESXi hosts, and congures vCenter Server.

Customization

If you select Customize, you will see the EVO:RAIL Initial Conguration user interface with the

following tabs on the left side of the webpage. Use values from the rows of your EVO:RAIL

Network Conguration Table.

• Hostnames

Enter the ESXi host naming scheme from Row 7 and the vCenter Server hostname from

Row 4.

• Networking

Enter the VLAN IDs, IP addresses, netmask, and gateway for ESXi, Virtual SAN, vSphere

vMotion, vCenter Server, and VM Networks from Rows 8-24.

• Passwords

Enter the ESXi hosts and vCenter Server passwords from Row 25. Enter the Active

Directory (optional) domain, username and password from Row 26.

• Globals

Enter your time zone and your existing NTP and DNS server(s) from Rows 27-29. For

logging, enter the IP address and hostname for Log Insight or for an existing third-party

syslog server (optional) in your network (Row 31). Enter the name, port, username, and

password for your proxy server (optional) from Row 30.

• Qualied EVO:RAIL Partner Integrated Solution (optional)

Enter one or two IP addresses from Row 32 for the virtual machines required by a QEP

integrated solution.

Initial Conguration Walk-Through

Use the information from your EVO:RAIL Network Conguration Table as you follow these

steps. Additional information is provided in the EVO:RAIL Network User Guide.

Step 1. Browse to the EVO:RAIL IP address (for example, https://192.168.10.200:7443). If

you encounter a browser message about security certicates, you will need to click

“Advanced” and “Proceed”. You will then see the EVO:RAIL welcome splash page.

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Step 2. Click the Yes, Let’s Go! button. Then if you agree, accept the EVO:RAIL End-User

License Agreement (EULA).

Step 3. If you click the Customize button you can congure hostnames, IP addresses, VLAN

IDs, and passwords. Most elds have default values to make initial conguration

quick and easy. The Just Go button congures EVO:RAIL according to the default

JSON conguration le and skips to Step 11. To upload your own JSON le, you

must click the Customize button rst, then Upload Conguration, shown by the red

arrow in Figure 2.

NOTE: There is no “save” option in EVO:RAIL; all conguration changes are automatically

validated and saved when changing between elds or screens.

Figure 2. Congure hostnames

Step 4. To customize EVO:RAIL, rst click Hostnames to dene a naming scheme for your

ESXi hosts. The hostname consists of an ESXi hostname prex, a Separator, an

Iterator, and a Top-level domain. The Preview eld shows an example of the result

of the rst ESXi host, as illustrated in the screenshot in Figure 2.

• Enter the ESXi hostname prex.

• Select the Separator (“None” or a dash ”-“) and the Iterator (Alpha, Num X, or

Num 0X).

• Enter the Top-level domain name.

• Enter the vCenter Server hostname. The top-level domain is automatically applied

to the vCenter Server hostname.

Step 5. Click Networking to specify IP and/or VLAN details for each network type: ESXi

hosts, Virtual SAN, vSphere vMotion, vCenter Server, and VM Networks.

• In ESXi hosts, enter the Starting and Ending address for IP pool, Netmask, and

Default gateway.

• Click vMotion and enter the Starting and Ending address for IP pool, the vSphere

vMotion VLAN ID, and the Netmask.

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• Click Virtual SAN and enter the Starting and Ending address for IP pool, the

Virtual SAN VLAN ID, and the Netmask.

Figure 3. Congure Networking

Step 6. Click vCenter Server to enter the IP address for EVO:RAIL Management and

vCenter Server. The Netmask and Default gateway are automatically copied from

ESXi hosts.

• If you enter a new vCenter Server IP address, EVO:RAIL will automatically re-

congure and tell you its new IP address, as described in Step 11.

• The IP address of vRealize Log Insight (in Step 9, Globals) will need to be on

the same subnet and vCenter Server.

• Port numbers remain the same. EVO:RAIL – 7443 and vSphere Web Client –

9443.

Step 7. Click VM networks to congure virtual machine networks. Enter a VM Network

Name and VM Network VLAN ID. Click the Add a VM network button to add more

networks.

Step 8. Click Passwords to specify the passwords for the ESXi hosts and vCenter Server.

Enter and conrm the ESXi hosts root password and the vCenter Server admin

password.

Passwords must contain between 8 and 20 characters, with at least one uppercase,

one lower case, and one special character. No character can be repeated three

consecutive times.

Optional: To use Active Directory for authentication, enter the AD username, AD

password, and AD domain. EVO:RAIL does not fully congure Active Directory. You

must perform additional steps on the vSphere Web Client.

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Step 9. Click Globals to specify the time zone, logging, and any existing DNS, NTP, or Proxy

servers on your network. If you have multiple servers, please separate them with

commas. EVO:RAIL will congure each of these services, as needed. For example,

all ESXi hosts and the vCenter Server are congured with the specied NTP server

when this eld is lled out.

Logging combines information for auditing and to track the functionality of EVO:RAIL,

vCenter Server, and ESXi. By default, logging is set to vRealize Log Insight. You

may alternately select an existing third-party syslog server. The default IP address

for Log Insight is pre-congured; for example, 192.168.10.201. If you change the IP

address of vCenter Server in Step 6, you must change the IP address of Log Insight

to be on the same subnet.

Step 10. Click the Validate button. EVO:RAIL veries the conguration data, checking for

conicts. After validation is successful, click the Build Appliance button.

Step 11. This step is only necessary if you change the IP address of vCenter Server from the

default value.

If you set a new IP address for vCenter Server / EVO:RAIL in Step 6, you will see

the following screen:

Figure 4. New IP address for EVO:RAIL Management,

if you change the IP address of vCenter Server

Before you proceed, you must manually change the IP address of your EVO:RAIL

Conguration and Management workstation/laptop to a new address on the same

subnet as the new EVO:RAIL Management IP address. (For example, if the new

management IP address is 10.10.10.200, you could set your client laptop to

10.10.10.210). Then return to the browser window and click the Continue with

appliance build button. If you encounter a browser message about certicates,

click Proceed anyway.

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If you lose connectivity during the appliance build process, you will need to browse

to port 7443 on the new IP address. (for example, https://10.10.10.200:7443)

Step 12. Finishing up: Building your appliance!

EVO:RAIL implements data services, creates the new ESXi hosts, and congures

the vCenter Server. When you see the Hooray! Screen, click the IP address to

continue to EVO:RAIL Management. You should also bookmark this IP address in

your browser for future use.

Figure 5. Finished conguration

If EVO:RAIL cannot connect to the new IP address that you

congured, you will get a message to x your network and try again.

If you are unable to connect to the new IP address after 20 minutes,

EVO:RAIL will revert to its original conguration and you will need to

re-enter your custom conguration.

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2.4 JSON Conguration File

EVO:RAIL relies on a JSON-formatted le to initially populate elds in the user interface. The

end user is presented with this data during initial appliance conguration (both for Customize

and Just Go workows). The initial conguration le is found on the EVO:RAIL service

datastore at:

/usr/lib/vmware-marvin/marvind/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/

default-cong-static.json

Before conguring EVO:RAIL, customers must read the VMware EVO:RAIL Network User

Guide and ll out the EVO:RAIL Network Conguration Table. Sample JSON conguration

les that correspond to the default values listed in this table are found in VMware KB articles

for each EVO:RAIL release.

Your Qualied EVO:RAIL Partner (QEP) may provide an optional service to pre-populate a

custom conguration le with values from the EVO:RAIL Network Conguration Table,

dened by the customer at the time of system order. The QEP would replace the data in the

default conguration le and the customer could use either Customize or Just Go.

A similarly formatted JSON le could be used with Upload Conguration File, which is

available after you select Customize. This feature allows you to use a modied conguration

le onsite, after shipment from your QEP. The primary use case for this feature is a ROBO

environment, where EVO:RAIL appliances are distributed with a similar conguration le for

multiple locations.

Important Notes:

• The JSON le format may change throughout EVO:RAIL releases. Please get the sample

JSON le that corresponds to the software release that your appliance was built with at

the QEP factory; then edit the sample le for your conguration.

• EVO:RAIL expects the data in the conguration le in a specic format. Any changes to

the JSON format will result in unexpected results and/or crashes.

• There is no built-in capability to generate and export an updated copy of an EVO:RAIL

JSON conguration le from the user interface.

Upload Conguration File

Pre-populate a custom conguration le for use in the Customize workow with the following

steps:

Step 1. Obtain a copy of the default-cong-static.json le for the EVO:RAIL release

that you will be conguring from VMware Knowledge Base: 2106961

Step 2. Edit your new conguration le to insert the values from the EVO:RAIL Network

Conguration Table.

Step 3. Make sure that the lename has a “.json” extension.

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