Model: HyperCell HC-800

1. Complete Technical Specifications

Chassis Configuration:

• Form Factor: 2U Short-Depth (482×650×89mm)
• Node Density: Supports 2-4 independent nodes per chassis
• Weight: 18.5kg (per node) / ≤25kg (fully loaded)
• Material: Tool-less magnesium alloy sleds with vibration damping

Compute Resources:

• Processor: AMD EPYC 9554P (64C/128T, 2.4-3.7GHz)
• 256MB L3 cache (8×32MB CCDs)
• 128× PCIe 5.0 lanes (32 lanes per node)
• Memory:
• 512GB DDR5-4800 (16×32GB)
• Advanced Features:
  ✓ ZRAM compression (up to 30% savings)
  ✓ NUMA-aware allocation

Storage Architecture:

Networking:

• Data Plane:
• 2×25GbE SFP28 (NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Lx)
• 1×100GbE QSFP56 (RDMA/RoCEv2 optional)
• Management:
• Dedicated 1GbE OCP 3.0 port
• IPMI 2.0 with Redfish API

2. HCI Software Stack Details

Virtualization:

• Hypervisor Options:
  ✓ KVM (CentOS/RHEL based)
  ✓ VMware ESXi 8.0U2+
  ✓ Nutanix AHV 2023.5+
• Storage Services:
• Distributed Storage Engine:
  ✓ Ceph Quincy (17.2.6) compatible API
  ✓ Adaptive EC (4+2 to 8+3) with 85% space efficiency
• Data Optimization:
  ✓ Inline dedupe (avg 3:1 reduction)
  ✓ Compression (LZ4/ZSTD selectable)

Network Virtualization:

• Software-Defined Networking:
  ✓ Open vSwitch 3.1.5 with DPDK acceleration
  ✓ Micro-segmentation: 5-tuple ACLs per VM
• Advanced Features:
  ✓ Network observability: Flow logs + sFlow sampling
  ✓ QoS: Minimum bandwidth guarantee per tenant

Management & Automation:

• Unified Console:
• Predictive capacity planning (ML-based)
• Firmware orchestration (non-disruptive updates)
• API Ecosystem:
  ✓ Full REST API coverage (Swagger docs)
  ✓ Terraform provider for infrastructure-as-code

3. Resiliency Engineering

Data Protection:

• Replication Schemes:
  ✓ Synchronous 3-way mirror (default)
  ✓ Erasure Coding (4+2 to 8+3 configurable)
• Self-Healing:
  ✓ Automatic disk failure detection (<30s)
  ✓ Background scrub (weekly full-stripe verify)

High Availability:

• Fault Domains:
  ✓ Rack-aware placement (anti-affinity rules)
  ✓ Stretch cluster support (up to 3 sites)
• Recovery Metrics:
  ✓ VM failover: <15s (with pinned memory)
  ✓ Storage rebuild: 10TB in <30min (25GbE network)

4. Performance Benchmarks

Virtualization Performance:

Energy Efficiency:

• Power Profiles:
  ✓ Balanced: 280W/node (70% load)
  ✓ Performance: 480W/node (100% load)
• Cooling:
  ✓ Dynamic fan control (N+1 redundancy)
  ✓ Liquid cooling ready (35°C coolant)

5. Deployment Scenarios

Enterprise Private Cloud:

• Case Study: Provincial e-Government Cloud
  ▶ 200-node cluster spanning 6 data centers
  ▶ Hosts 8,000+ VMs for 30+ departments
  ▶ Achieved 99.999% SLA over 3 years

Edge Computing:

• Offshore Oil Platform Deployment:
  ✓ 5-node micro-cluster with satellite backhaul
  ✓ Survives 15° tilt and 95% humidity

SAN Replacement:

• Insurance Company Migration:
  ▶ Replaced EMC VMAX with 8-node HC-800
  ▶ 4× higher IOPS at 60% lower TCO

6. Support & Services

Subscription Tiers:

Professional Services:

• Rapid Deployment Kit:
  ✓ Pre-configured hardware + automated provisioning
  ✓ 1-day production readiness
• Compliance Packages:
  ✓ PCI-DSS Level 1 hardening
  ✓ HIPAA audit configuration