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Inspur NF5280M5 Server

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Issue: 01

Date: Sep 30th, 2017

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About This Document

Overview

This document describes the features and components provided by Inspur NF5280M5 server.

Intended Audience

This document can be used by marketing personnel, sales, and channel distributors for business

development.

Changes History

Changes between document issues are cumulative. The latest document issue contains all the

changes made in earlier issues.

Issue 01 (September 30, 2017)

This issue is the first official release.

Contents

1 OVERVIEW ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1

2 FEATURES ...................................................................................................................................................................... 2

3 LOGICAL ARCHITECTURE .......................................................................................................................................... 5

4 PRODUCT DIAGRAM .................................................................................................................................................... 6

4.1 FRONT VIEW ..................................................................................................................................................................... 6

4.2 INTERNAL VIEW ................................................................................................................................................................ 6

4.3 REAR VIEW ....................................................................................................................................................................... 7

5 STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS .................................................................................................................................... 8

6 COMPONENT COMPATIBILITY ................................................................................................................................. 11

6.1 PROCESSOR .................................................................................................................................................................. 11

6.2 MEMORY ........................................................................................................................................................................ 12

6.3 STORAGE ....................................................................................................................................................................... 13

6.3.1 Drive bay models .................................................................................................................................................... 14

6.3.2 Disk drive options ................................................................................................................................................... 15

6.4 RAID ADAPTER .............................................................................................................................................................. 18

6.5 I/O EXPANSION ............................................................................................................................................................... 19

6.6 NETWORK ADAPTER ....................................................................................................................................................... 21

6.7 FLASH STORAGE ADAPTER ............................................................................................................................................ 22

6.8 FC HBA ADAPTER ......................................................................................................................................................... 23

6.9 HCA ADAPTER ............................................................................................................................................................... 23

6.10 GRAPHIC/GPU/MIC ...................................................................................................................................................... 24

6.11 POWER SUPPLIES .......................................................................................................................................................... 24

6.12 OPERATING SYSTEMS .................................................................................................................................................... 25

6.13 SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................................................................ 25

7 PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS .................................................................................................................................... 27

8 REGULATORY COMPLIANCE ................................................................................................................................... 29

9 WARRANTY .................................................................................................................................................................. 30

9.1 WARRANTY SERVICE ..................................................................................................................................................... 30

9.1.1 Overview .................................................................................................................................................................. 30

9.1.2 Terms & Conditions ................................................................................................................................................ 30

9.2 WARRANTY EXCLUSIONS ............................................................................................................................................... 31

10 RELATED DOCUMENT ............................................................................................................................................... 32

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1 Overview

Newly designed with Purley platform, the two-socket Inspur NF5280M5 can pack more stability

performance and scalability into a 2U chassis, running even more workloads for 24×7 hours, and

gaining faster business insights. NF5280M5 have an industry leading balance of performance,

capability and scalability, with high performing processor up to 28 cores or 3.6GHz working

frequency, flexible storage configurations including up to 38x 2.5” or 20x 3.5” drives with a wide

selection of drive sizes and types, and resilient expansion capability with up to 10 PCIE3.0 slots, to

fit for a wide range of applications and workloads as enterprise applications, cloud computing, big

data, database, HPC, etc.

This product document provides essential sale related technological information to understand the

structure of the NF5280M5, its key features and specifications, components and options, and

configuration guidelines. This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales

engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about the NF5280M5

and consider its use in IT solutions.



2 Features

With the design for a wide range of applications and workloads, NF5280M5 offers numerous

features in performance, scalability, availability, manageability, security and efficiency as following:

Performance

The NF5280M5 provides numerous features to boost performance and reduce costs:

Integrated with the Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor product family with up to 28-core

processors, up to 2666 MHz memory speeds, and up to 10.4 GT/s UPI interconnect links.

Support for up to two processors, 56 cores, and 112 threads allows to maximize the concurrent

execution of multithreaded applications.

Support up to four GPUs in a 2U chassis, dramatically improve the system performance for the

HPC, deep learning, machine learning application.

Up to 2666 MHz memory speeds with two DIMMs per channel running at 2666 MHz to help

maximize system performance.

Support NVM Express disk drive, allowing host hardware and software to fully exploit the levels

of parallelism possible in modern SSDs. As a result, NVM Express reduces I/O overhead and

brings various performance improvements in comparison to previous logical-device interfaces,

including multiple, long command queues, and reduced latency.

Up to 100Gb/s network adapter, tremendously reduce the IO latency and improving the

bandwidth for low-latency and high throughput application such as HPC

With Intel® Integrated I/O Technology, the PCI Express 3.0 controller is integrated into the

Intel® Xeon® processor SP product family. This helps to dramatically reduce I/O latency and

increase overall system performance.

Support Intel® Turbo Boost Technology accelerating processor and graphics performance for

peak loads, automatically allowing processor cores to run faster than the rated operating

frequency if they’re operating below power, current, and temperature specification limits.

Whether the processor enters into Intel® Turbo Boost Technology and the amount of time the

processor spends in that state depends on the workload and operating environment

Intel® Virtualization Technology features enable faithful abstraction of the full prowess of Intel®

CPU to a virtual machine (VM). All software in the VM can run without any performance or

compatibility hit, as if it was running natively on a dedicated CPU. Live migration from one

Intel® CPU generation to another, as well as nested virtualization, is possible.

Scalability



The NF5280M5 provides excellent scalability as following to fit a wide-range of application and

works:

Up to 1.5TB with 24×64GB RDIMMs and two processors; Up to 1.5TB with 12×128GB LDIMMs

and two processors; Up to 192GB with 12×16GB NVDIMM and two processors;

Provide 2.5”×24 or 3.5”×12 hot swap SATA/SAS front disk drive bay and 2.5”×4+ 3.5”×4 hot

swap SATA/SAS rear disk drive bay.

Flexible and scalable internal storage provides up to 200TB for capacity-optimized storage

configurations by using 10 TB 3.5-inch hard disk drives or up to 38 SFF drives for performance-

optimized storage configurations in a 2U rack form factor.

One OCP mezz slot is available for network capability expansion with 25Gb/s or 1Gb/10Gb/s

adapter.

The server offers up to ten PCI Express 3.0 I/O expansion slots with eight of them in the rear

and two optional PCIE slots by using OCU link for PCIE expansion in the front within a 2U rack

form factor.

Availability

The NF5280M5 provides many features to simplify serviceability and increase system uptime:

NVDIMM enable using volatile memory during normal operation and dump the contents into

non-volatile memory if the power fails, using an on-board backup power source. Volatile

memory is faster than non-volatile; it is byte-addressable; and it can be written to arbitrarily,

without concerns about wear and device lifespan.

Support memory protection technologies as ECC, memory mirroring, memory rank spare, etc.

Support Tri-mode RAID adapter, providing hardware-level protection solution for NVME SSD

drives.

The server provides redundant hot-swap power supplies and hot-swap redundant fans to

provide availability for business-critical applications.

Support continuously running in the high-temperature environment with up to 45 degree. The

feature can effectively help lower the customer TCO and move towards a green energy-efficient

data center.

Manageability

The NF5280M5 provides numerous management features to simplify the operation work:

Tool-less removal provides easy access to upgrades and serviceable parts, such as processors,

memory DIMMs, and adapter cards.



The server includes a remote management feature to monitor the status of main components

as processor, memory, disk and fans.

Efficiency

The NF5280M5 offers the following energy-efficiency features to save energy, reduce operational

costs, and contribute to the green environment:

To reduce the power consumption, motherboard of NF5280M5 designs a large current

dedicated high-speed channel, optimizing the power supply with better PCB board optimization.

Intel®ligent temperature control technology brings in stability and reliability for the system,

effectively reducing the NF5280M5 power consumption and noise by 17% comparing with

previous generation of product

NF5280M5 uses low-power components with highest efficiency conversion rate, saving up to

20% than other solution. It can also choose the high energy efficiency titanium level power

supply with a conversion rate of more than 96%, helping to reduce the power consumption of

data center and achieve the green energy saving.

Inspur power consumption management technology can help to monitor and control the system

power consumption accurately for users with PTAS and Node Management 3.0 technology.

Security

Support TPM which can securely store artifacts used to authenticate the platform. These

artifacts can include passwords, certificates, or encryption keys. A TPM can also be used to

store platform measurements that help ensure that the platform remains trustworthy.

NF5280M5 can implement firmware encryption/digital signature to prevent illegal writes.

NF5280M5 can fully support the trusted computing system and strengthen the security of the

system. Embedded hardware encryption chip allows users to select algorithm according to

requirements.

Supports the locking design in the chassis lid, prohibiting illegal operation.



3 Logical Architecture

NF5280M5 logic architecture is showed as following. Each processor has six memory channel with

two DIMMs per channel. Four OCU links are supported by CPU1 for NVME SSD connection or

front PCIE slots expansion. Two SATA/PCIE M.2 SSD are supported by PCH. PCIE slot1 x24 is

provided by CPU0, while PCIE slot2 x24 is provided both CPU0(x8) and CPU1(x16) and PCIE slot

x24 is supported by CPU1 with x16 transfer rate. OCP mezz slot is offered by CPU0. See more as

following.



4 Product Diagram

4.1 Front view

The following figure shows the front of the NF5280M5 server with up to 24x 2.5-inch drive bays.

4.2 Internal view

The following figure shows the locations of key components inside the NF5280M5 server.



4.3 Rear view

The following figure shows the rear of the NF5280M5 server.



5 Technical Specifications

NF5280M5 technical specifications are show as followed table:

Table 5-1. Technical specifications

Components Specification

Form factor 2U rack-mount

Processor

Up to two processors of the Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor:

Up to 28 cores (2.5 GHz core speeds)

Up to 3.6 GHz core speeds (4 cores)

Support UPI technology up to 10.4GT/s

Chipset Intel ® C620 series chipset

Memory

Up to 24 DIMM slots. Six memory channels supported by each processor, up to two

DIMMs per channel. Memory speed up to 2666MHz. Support for RDIMM, LDIMM,

NVDIMM and Apache Pass. Memory protection technologies as ECC, memory

mirroring, memory rank sparing.

Memory

Maximum

With RDIMMs: up to 1.5TB with 24×64GB and two processors;

With LDIMMs: up to 1.5TB with 12×128GB and two processors;

With NVDIMMs: up to 192GB with 12×16GB and two processors;

Storage

Support the following front disk drive bay models

2.5”×8/16/24 SATA/SAS hot swap HDD/SSD

3.5”×4/8/12 SATA/SAS hot swap HDD/SSD

2.5”×18 SATA/SAS hot swap HDD/SSD+ 6×hot swap U.2 NVME SSD

3.5”×4 SATA/SAS hot swap HDD/SSD+ 8×hot swap U.2 NVME SSD

2.5”×24 hot swap U.2 NVME SSD(coming soon)

Support the following rear disk drive bay models

3.5”×2/4 SATA/SAS hot swap HDD/SSD+2.5”×2/4 SATA/SAS hot swap

HDD/SSD

3.5”×2/4 U.2 NVME SSD+2.5”×2/4 SATA/SAS hot swap HDD/SSD



Storage

capacity

Up to 200 TB with 10 TB 3.5" SATA HDDs

Up to 72 TB with 2 TB 2.5" SAS HDDs

Up to 76.8 TB with 3.2 TB U.2 NVME SSDs

Intermixing of SAS, SATA, and PCIE drives are supported.

M.2 & SD

support

Up to two 80mm M.2 SATA/PCIE SSD

Up to two Micro SD card

Storage

controller

Integrated SATA controller with OCP link connector, supporting up to 12 SATA

devices.

12Gb/s SAS RAID; Support for triple-mode with a mixture of SAS/SATA/NVME;

Provide RAID 0/1/5/6/10/50/60

Network

interfaces

One OCP Mezzanine module supporting 1Gb/s, 10Gb/s or 25Gb/s

Support standard 1Gb/10Gb/25Gb/40G/100Gb Ethernet cards

I/O expansion

Up to ten PCIE slots. Eight of those are located in the rear, provided in the form of

PCIE riser cards. Two optional PCIE slots are in the front, extended by the OCP

links. Rear slots depend on the risers installed. The slots are as follows:

Slot 0: PCIE 3.0 x8; FHFL; (Not presenting if slot 1 is PCIE x16)

Slot 1: PCIE 3.0 x8 or x16; FHFL

Slot 2: PCIE 3.0 x8 ; FHFL

Slot 3: PCIE 3.0 x8; FHFL



Slot 6: PCIE 3.0 x8 ; FHFL; (Not presenting if slot 7 is PCIE x16)


Slots 4, 5, 6, and 7 require the second processor to be installed.

Ports

Front: 1x USB 3.0 port , 1x USB 3.0/LCD connector and 1x VGA port

Rear: 2x USB 3.0, 1x VGA port, 1*serial port and 1*management port

Internal: 2x USB 2.0 port

Cooling Up to eight redundant hot-swap fans;



Power supply Up to two redundant hot-swap 550W/800W/1300W/1600W High Efficiency Platinum

or Titanium AC power supplies; Support -48V/336V DC power supply

Hot-swap parts Hard drives, power supplies, and fans.

Systems

management

Integrate BMC+IKVM remote management module compliance to IPMI2.0,

supporting KVM over IP.

Operating

systems

Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2012/2016;

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6/7;

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11/12;

CentOS 6/7;

Dimensions 800mm chassis：435×87×797.5 mm

780mm chassis：435×87×779.5 mm

Weight Chassis with 12*3.5” disks: 31.2kg

Chassis with 24*2.5” disks: 25.2kg



6 Component Compatibility

6.1 Processor

The NF5280M5 supports up to two Intel® Xeon® Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze product family.

With optimized design, NF5280M5 can support highest performing processor with 205w TDP,

delivering 28 cores per processor. The following tables list the specifications of the processors

supported by NF5280M5.

Table 6-1: SP specifications

Description Maximum

support

G_CPU_Intel_8164_Xeon_2.00GHz_26C-52T_10.4GT/s_Turbo_HT_150W_2666MHz 2

G_CPU_Intel_8160T_Xeon_2.10GHz_24C-48T_10.4GT/s_Turbo_HT_150W_2666MHz 2


G_CPU_Intel_8180M_Xeon_2.50GHz_28C-56T_10.4GT/s_Turbo_HT_205W_2666MHz 2



G_CPU_Intel_8160F_Xeon_2.10GHz_24C-48T_10.4GT/s_Turbo_HT_160W_2666MHz 2






NOTE: The list is updated until Sep 30th, 2017. More are adding into the list.

What’s NEW:

Higher per-code performance: up to 28 cores, delivering high performance and scalability for

compute-intensive workload across compute, storage and network usages.

Greater memory bandwidth/capacity: 50 percent increased memory bandwidth and capacity.

Six memory channels versus four memory channels of previous processor generation for

memory-intensive workload.



Expanded I/O. 48 lanes of PCIE3.0 bandwidth and throughput for demanding I/O intensive

workload.

Intel® Ultra Path Interconnect(Intel® UPI): Up to three Intel® UPI channels increase the

scalability of the platform to as many as eight-socket server, as well as improve the inter-CPU

bandwidth for I/O intensive workload versus previous generation.

Intel® Advanced Vector Extension 512(Intel® AVX-512): with double the flops per clock cycle

compared to previous generation AVX2, Intel® AVX-512 boosts performance and throughput

for the most demanding computational tasks in application, such as modeling and simulation,

data analytics and machine learning, data compression, visualization, and digital content

creation.

NOTE:

Only half DIMMs are available when only one processor is installed

NF5280M5 can support up to two 205W processors.

6.2 Memory

The NF5280M5 supports up to 24 DIMMs when two processors are installed and 12 DIMMs when

one processor is available. Each processor has six memory channels and two DIMMs per channel

with up to 2666MHz working frequency. Support LDIMM, NVDIMM RDIMM memory and Apache

Pass.

The following memory protection technologies are supported:

ECC (Error Correcting Code): handles minor amounts of data corruption via multi-bit error

detection and single-bit error correction. Depending on the system, ECC can help identify failing

DIMMs

Memory Mirroring: provides protection against uncorrectable memory errors that would

otherwise result in system failure. In this mode, the system maintains two copies of all data. If

an uncorrectable memory error occurs, the system automatically retrieves the good data from

the mirrored (redundant) copy. The system continues to operate normally without any user

intervention. By providing added redundancy in the memory sub-system, Memory Mirroring

provides the greatest protection against memory failure not corrected by ECC, SDDC, DDDC,

and online spare memory

Memory Rank Sparing: provides protection against persistent DRAM failure. It tracks

excessive number of correctable errors and copies the contents of an unhealthy rank to an

available spare rank in advance of multi-bit or persistent single-bit failures that may result in

future uncorrectable faults. It does not identify or disable individual failed DRAMs, but instead

it disables the DIMM or rank. Since a DIMM or a rank is needed to perform sparing, this



technique reduces the total amount of available memory by the amount of memory used for

sparing. Sparing can only handle one failure per DIMM. DIMMs that are likely to receive a

fatal/uncorrectable memory error are automatically removed from operation, resulting in less

system downtime

If memory mirroring is used, then DIMMs must be installed in pairs (a minimum of one pair per each

processor), and both DIMMs in a pair must be identical in type and size. If memory rank sparing is

used, then a minimum of one quad-rank DIMM or two single-rank or dual-rank DIMMs must be

installed per populated channel (the DIMMs do not need being identical). In rank sparing mode,

one rank of a DIMM in each populated channel is reserved as spare memory. The size of a rank

varies depending on the DIMMs installed.

Table 6-2. Memory options

Description Maximum support

G_MEM_32G_DDR4-2400_Register-DIMM_2Rank4bit 24



G_MEM_64G_DDR4-2400_LoadReduced-DIMM_4Rank4bit 24






Install DIMMs only if the corresponding processor is installed.

Mixture of different DIMM types (UDIMM, RDIMM, and LRDIMM) is not supported

Up to 12 NVDIMMs are supported;

6.3 Storage

The NF5280M5 server can provide a variety choice of storage configuration. For application such

as cloud storage and big data analysis, NF5280M5 provides 12*3.5 front disk and 4*3.5 rear disk

with 10TB capacity each disk to fulfill the requirement. Customer can also choose NVMe SSD for

IO intensive application such as database, enterprise software. NF5280M5 support up to 24*2.5

front disks and 4*2.5 rear disks, providing a great balance of performance and cost. The following

lists the disk drive bays and disk supported by NF5280M5.



6.3.1 Drive bay models

6.3.1.1 Front disk drive bays

1. 8x2.5-inch, 16x2.5-inch or 24x2.5-inch SAS/SATA/SSD hot-swap disk drive bay

NOTE:

One raid adapter is required and two NVMe SSDs are supported in 8*2.5 model;

Two raid adapters are required and four NVMe SSDs are supported in 16*2.5 model;

Three raid adapters are required and six NVMe SSDs are supported in 24*2.5 model;

2. 4x3.5-inch, 8x3.5-inch or 12x3.5-inch SAS/SATA/SSD hot-swap disk drive bay

NOTE:

One raid adapter can support for all front disks in 4/8/12*3.5 model;

Up to four NVMe SSDs are supported in 4*3.5 model;

up to eight NVMe SSDs are supported in 8*3.5 model;

No NVMe SSD is supported in 12*3.5 model.

6.3.1.2 Rear disk drive bays

3. 4x3.5+4x2.5-inch SAS/SATA/SSD hot-swap disk drive bay



NOTE:

One raid adapter can support for all the rear disks;

6.3.2 Disk drive options

6.3.2.1 SATA/SAS HDD options

NF5280M5 can support both SATA/SAS HDD with up to 10TB or 12Gb/s per disk. The following

table lists the SATA/SAS HDD supported by NF5280M5.

Table 6-3: HDD options


G_HDD_300G_SAS12Gb_2.5in_Enterprise 24 (front drive bay)









G_HDD_1T_SATA6Gb_3.5in_Enterprise 24 (front drive bay)

G_HDD_1T_SASb_3.5in_Enterprise 24 (front drive bay)


G_HDD_1T_SAS12Gb_2.5in_Enterprise 24 (front drive bay)

G_HDD_1.2T_SAS12Gb_2.5in_Enterprise 24 (front drive bay)

G_HDD_1.8T_SAS12Gb_2.5in_Enterprise 24 (front drive bay)




















6.3.2.2 SATA SSD options

NF5280M5 can support SATA SSD with tens of thousands IOPS and hundred MB/s throughput for

each disk. The following table lists the SATA/SAS SSD supported by NF5280M5.

Table 6-4: SATA/SAS SSD Options


G_SSD_150GB_intel_SATA_S3520 24 (front drive bay)














G_SSD_1.2TB_intel_SATA_S3710 24 (front drive bay)






6.3.2.3 U.2 NVME SSD options

NF5280M5 support up to 24 U.2 NVMe SSD with hundreds of thousands IOPS and thousands

MB/s throughput for each disk by fully utilizing the PCIE x4 channel which is directly connecting to

processors. The following table lists the NVME SSD supported by NF5280M5.

Table 6-5. U.2 NVME SSD


G_SSD_400GB_Intel_U.2_P3600 24 (front drive bay)

G_SSD_800GB_memblaze_U.2_PBlaze4L 24 (front drive bay)

G_SSD_800GB_Intel_U.2_P3600 24 (front drive bay)

G_SSD_1.2TB_memblaze_U.2_PBlaze4L 24 (front drive bay)

G_SSD_1.2TB_Intel_U.2_P3600 24 (front drive bay)


G_SSD_1.6TB_Intel_U.2_P3600 24 (front drive bay)

G_SSD_2TB_Intel_U.2_P3600 24 (front drive bay)

G_SSD_2TB_Intel_U.2_P3520 24 (front drive bay)





U.2 NVME SSD are supported only when TWO processors are installed

NVMe SSD can be configured as RAID group with Intel® VROC function.

Up to four NVMe SSDs are supported in 4*3.5 model;

Up to eight NVMe SSDs are supported in 8*3.5 model;

No NVMe SSD is supported in 12*3.5 model.

Two NVMe SSDs are supported in 8*2.5 model;

Four NVMe SSDs are supported in 16*2.5 model;

Six NVMe SSDs are supported in 24*2.5 model;

No NVMe SSD is supported in the rear drive bay

6.4 RAID adapter

NF5280M5 offers a high performance as well as cost effective raid solution with Inspur developing

raid adapters such as PM8060(1GB) or PM8060(2GB), which are highly compatible with Inspur

server and provide an excellent performance. Onboard SATA controller are also supported with

three OCU link connectors, providing up to 12 SATA disks connection and can be configured as

raid 0/1/10. PCIe profile raid adapters with up to 4GB cache or 12Gb/s rate are supported as

following:

Table 6-6: RAID card for internal disks

Item IO Controller Connector Rate RAID Level Cache

Broadcom SAS9361-8i LSI-3108MR 2x SFF8643 12Gb/s 0/1/5/6/10/50/60 1GB

Broadcom SAS9361-8i LSI-3108MR 2x SFF8643 12Gb/s 0/1/5/6/10/50/60 2GB

Inspur PM8060(1G) PM8060 2x SFF8643 12Gb/s 0/1/5/6/10/50/60 1GB

Inspur PM8060(2G) PM8060 2x SFF8643 12Gb/s 0/1/5/6/10/50/60 2GB

Inspur SAS3108(2G) SAS3108 2x SFF8643 12Gb/s 0/1/5/6/10/50/60 2GB

Inspur SAS3108(4G) SAS3108 2x SFF8643 12Gb/s 0/1/5/6/10/50/60 4GB


NF5280M5 offers a high performance as well as cost effective raid solution with Inspur developing

raid adapters. The following table summarizes features of supported storage controllers.

Table 6-7. Inspur developing raid adapter specification

Specification Inspur Inspur Inspur Inspur Inspur



SAS3008(IT) SAS3008(IR) SAS3008（iMR） SAS3108 PM8060

Controller LSI SAS3008 LSI SAS3008 LSI SAS3008 SAS3108 PM8060

Form factor Low profile Low profile Low profile Low profile Low profile

Host bus type PCIE3.0 x8 PCIE3.0 x8 PCIE3.0 x8 PCIE3.0 x8 PCIE3.0 x8

Connector 2x SFF8643 2x SFF8643 2x SFF8643 2x SFF8643 2x SFF8643

Drive interface SATA, SAS SATA, SAS SATA, SAS SATA, SAS SATA, SAS

Ports 8 internal 8 internal 8 internal 8 internal 8 internal

Transfer rate 12Gb/s 12Gb/s 12Gb/s 12Gb/s 12Gb/s

Cache

memory 0MB 0MB 0MB 2GB/4GB 1GB/2GB

Max device 256 256 256 128 256

RAID level N/A 0/1/10 0/1/5/10/50 0/1/5/6/10/50/

60

0/1/5/6/10/1E/

50/60

JBOD mode Support Support Support Support Support

Cache

protection N/A N/A N/A LSICVM2.0 AFM700

SSD cache N/A N/A N/A CacheCade N/A

NOTE:

For 8-channel raid adapters:

One raid adapter can support for all front disks in 4/8/12*3.5 model;

One raid adapter is required in 8*2.5 model;

Two raid adapters are required in 16*2.5 model;

Three raid adapters are required in 24*2.5 model;

One raid adapter can support for all the rear disks;

6.5 I/O expansion

NF5280M5 provide an industry leading PCIe expansion capability with up to ten PCIe slots,

supporting widest compatibility with adapters such as RAID, NIC, AIC SSD, FC HBA, HCA, Graphic,

GPU, MIC, etc. Eight of PCIE slots are offered in the rear and two of them are provided in the front.



All the PCIE slots are delivered in the form of PCIE riser card. Room1 and Room2 can deploy PCIE

riser1 with x8*3 slots, riser2 with x16*1+x8 or 2*3.5’ disk drive bay, while Room3 can be configured

PCIE riser3 with x8*2, riser4 with x16*1 or 4*2.5’ disk drive bay. Each room can be deployed

independently without interference, providing an agile IO expansion capability for customer.

The locations of the PCIE slots are shown in the following figure



Table 6-8: Slots available for use

Module Room 1 Room 2 Room 3

PCIE Riser 1(x8*3) Slot 0,1,3 Slot 2,4,5 N/A

PCIE Riser 2(x16*1+x8*1) Slot 1,3 Slot 2,5 N/A

PCIE Riser 3(x8*2) N/A N/A Slot 6,7

PCIE Riser 4(x16*1) N/A N/A Slot 7

2*3.5’ disk drive bay None None N/A

2*2.5’ disk drive bay N/A N/A None

4*GPU module Slot 3 Slot 2 N/A

The slot form factors are as follows:



Slot 2: PCIE 3.0 x8 ; FHFL

Slot 3: PCIE 3.0 x8; FHFL



Slot 6: PCIE 3.0 x8 ; FHFL; (Not presenting if slot 7 is PCIE x16)


6.6 Network adapter

NF5280M5 provides a rich solution for Ethernet network expansion. OCP NIC module with up to

two 25Gb/s port or PHY module with up to four 10Gb/s ports is supported onboard. Up to six PCIe

profile NIC adapters are supported with a various choice from 1Gb/s to 100Gb/s. NF5280M5 also

deliver a cost effective and high performance Ethernet expansion solution with Inspur developing

NICs. The following tables list the supported NICs.

Table 6-9: Network adapter options

From factor Description Speed Maximum

PCIE Profile G_NIC_Silicom_I350_1Gbps_RJ45_2Port 1Gb 6

PCIE Profile G_NIC_Intel_82599ES_10Gbps_LC_1Port_MM_SFP+ 10Gb 6

PCIE Profile G_NIC_Intel_82599ES_10Gbps_LC_2Port_MM_SFP+ 10Gb 6

PCIE Profile G_NIC_Intel_X540T2_10Gbps_RJ45_2Port 10Gb 6

PCIE Profile G_NIC_Inspur_XL710_10Gbps_LC_2Port_SFP+ 10Gb 6

PCIE Profile G_NIC_Silicom_82599ES_10Gbps_LC_2Port_SFP+ 10Gb 6



PCIE Profile G_NIC_Inspur_82599ES_10Gbps_LC_2Port_SFP+ 10Gb 6



PCIE Profile G_NIC_Intel_XL710_40Gbps_LC_1Port_MM_QSFP+ 10Gb 6

PCIE Profile G_NIC_Intel_XL710_40Gbps_LC_2Port_MM_QSFP+ 10Gb 6

PCIE Profile G_NIC_Mellanox_MCX416A-CCAT_100Gbps_LC_2Port_QSFP28 100Gb 6

Mezzanine G_OCP-NIC_Inspur_PHY_1Gbps_RJ45_4Port 1Gb 1

Mezzanine G_OCP-NIC_Inspur_PHY_10Gbps_LC_1Port 10Gb 1



Mezzanine G_OCP-NIC_Inspur_ConnectX-4Lx_25Gbps_LC_1Port 25Gb 1

Mezzanine G_OCP-NIC_Inspur_ConnectX-4Lx_25Gbps_LC_2Port 25Gb 1


Support the mixture of two types of PCIE profile NIC;

Up to six PCIE profile NICs are supported by NF5280M5;

6.7 Flash storage adapter

NF5280M5 provides up to four AIC NVMe SSD with hundreds of thousands IOPS and thousands

MB/s throughput for each disk by fully utilizing the PCIE x4 channel which is directly connecting to

processors. The following table lists the AIC NVME SSD supported by NF5280M5.

Table 6-10: PCIE SSD options


G_SSD_400GB_Intel_PCIE_P3600 4




G_SSD_1.2TB_Intel_PCIE_P3600 4







Up to four AIC NVMe SSDs is supported by NF5280M5;

NVMe SSD can be configured as RAID group with Intel® VROC function.

6.8 FC HBA adapter

NF5280M5 supports the fiber channel connection with disk array by using FC HBA adapter,

providing 8Gb/s or 16Gb/s transfer rate. The following table lists Fiber Channel HBAs supported by

Inspur NF5280M5.

Table 6-11: FC HBA options

Form factor Description Speed Maximum

PCIE Profile G_FCHBA_8Gb/s_Emulex-LPE1250_1Port 8Gb/s 6

PCIE Profile G_FCHBA_8Gb/s_Emulex-LPE12002_2Port 8Gb/s 6

PCIE Profile G_FCHBA_16Gb/s_Qlogic-QLE2670_1Port 16Gb/s 6

PCIE Profile G_FCHBA_16Gb/s_Emulex-LPE16000B_1Port 16Gb/s 6



PCIE Profile G_FCHBA_16Gb/s_Emulex-LPE16002B_2Port 16Gb/s 6



For more details of HBA spec, please refer as following:

http://www.qlogic.com/Products/adapters/Pages/FibreChannelAdapters.aspx

https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/fibre-channel-host-bus-adapters/#tab-168G2

6.9 HCA adapter

NF5280M5 is an ideal platform for HPC application with supporting up to 100Gb/s HCA adapter.

40Gb/s or 56Gb/s HCAs are also optional for the balance of performance and cost effective. The

following table lists HCAs supported by the Inspur NF5280M5.

Table 6-12: HCA options

Form factor Description Speed Maximum

PCIE Profile G_InfinibandCard_40Gbps_1Port_Mellanox_PCEx8 100Gbps 3


http://www.qlogic.com/Products/adapters/Pages/FibreChannelAdapters.aspx

https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/fibre-channel-host-bus-adapters/#tab-168G2





For more details of HCA adapter spec, please refer as following:

https://www.asus.com/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/PEMFDR/overview/

http://www.mellanox.com/page/infiniband_cards_overview

http://ark.Intel®.com/products/family/92003/Intel®-Omni-Path-Host-Fabric-Interface-Products

6.10 Graphic/GPU/MIC

NF5280M5 delivers an industry leading GPU computing density with supporting up to four GPUs

in a 2U chassis, providing an ideal platform for rising applications such as deep learning, machine

learning and AI, etc. NVIDIA latest architecture Pascal--based GPUs are well supported in

NF5280M5. Following tables list the graphic processer units supported by Inspur NF5280M5.

Table 6-13: Graphic/GPU/MIC options

Form factor Description Maximum

PCIE Profile G_GPU_12GB_TESLA-P100_NVIDIA_PCIE 4

PCIE Profile G_GPU_16GB_TESLA-P100_NVIDIA_PCIE 4

PCIE Profile G_GPU_16GB_Tesla-P100_NVIDIA_PCIE 4


GPU installation requires PCIE x16 riser cards.

6.11 Power supplies

NF5280M5 supports up to two redundant 80Plus platinum PSU with up to 94% conversion rate,

providing various options such as 550W, 800W, 1300W, 1600W. High voltage and low voltage DC

are also supported by NF5280M5. The following table lists the power supply options.

Table 6-14: Power supply unit Options


550W High Efficiency Platinum AC Power Supply 2


800W High Efficiency Titanium AC Power Supply 2



https://www.asus.com/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/PEMFDR/overview/

http://www.mellanox.com/page/infiniband_cards_overview

http://ark.intel.com/products/family/92003/Intel-Omni-Path-Host-Fabric-Interface-Products



1600W High Efficiency Titanium AC Power Supply 2


550W PSU is applied only when CPU TDP≤120W and a limitation of eight disks; don't support

Graphic, GPU or MIC card;

6.12 Operating systems

NF5280M5 is widely compatible with mainstream operation system and virtualization platform. The

following lists OS and virtualization platform supported by NF5280M5

Windows Server 2008/2012/2016

Redhat Enterprise 6/7

SLES 11/12

Solaris 11/12

CentOS 6/7

Oracle Linux 6/7

NeoKylin Linux Server 6/6.5

InCloud Manager v4

XenServer 6/7

Oracle VM3

6.13 Systems management

NF5280M5 integrates BMC remote management module compliance to IPMI2.0, supporting KVM

over IP, which is independent to CPU BIOS and Operation System and support an initiative GUI in

English. With the remote management module, administrator can monitor the status of

CPU/Memory/PSU/FAN and the other key components in terms of voltage, speed, temperature by

remote access to the server through local browser, better evaluating the risk and simplifying facility

deployment, management and maintenance. The manager system can support the following

functions:

Remote management. Achieve remote control through the KVM over IP, Serial over LAN and

virtual media to manage the server including power on/off, firmware upgrade.

Alert management. Collect the alerting information and process this message automatically.

Status monitor: Achieve the status monitor from power supply, processor, disks, memory, fans,

etc.

Facility information management. Provide the asset information such as facility version, serial

number, manufacturer of processor, memory, disk, NIC, etc.



Dissipation management. System can automatically adjust the fans speed according the

workload to achieve dissipation and energy save. Or you can adjust the fans speed manually

Support IPMItool management. Support the third party management software IPMItool to

monitor and operate the server.

Web management. Support intuitive web management interface with a few click to finish the

setup and inquiry operation.

Accounts centralized management. Support integrating accounts into the Active Directory

server, achieve domain account logging in the management system.

System maintenance. Support mirrored BMC upgrade through Web interface to activate this

option



7 Physical Specifications

Following tables list the physical specifications of NF5280M5.

Table 7-1. Physical specifications

Item Specifications

Dimensions 800mm chassis：435×87×797.5 mm

780mm chassis：435×87×779.5 mm

Weight



Chassis without disks: 20.4kg

Power rate

550 W AC PSU: 550 W (input voltage: 110 V to 240 V AC)




Temperature

Server on: 5 °C to 40 °C with altitude from 0 to 914m;

Shipment: -40 °C to +70 °C

Range of changing temperature: 15 °C/min

Temperature

variation 0°C to 40°C (Operating)

Damped heat

0°C to 40°C, 10% to 90% R.H. (Operating);

-40°C to 55°C, 10% to 93% R.H.(Non-operating); -40°C to 70°C, 10% to 93% R.H.(while

in shipping container)

Humidity

Server on: 5% to 93% (non-condensing)

Server off: 5% to 93% (non-condensing)

Air pressure

range 20kPa to 106kPa

Vibration

0.21grms, 5Hz to 500Hz, 15mins/axis, 3 axes (Operating);

2.2grms, 5Hz to 500Hz, 10mins/axis, 3 axes (Operating);

0.82grms, 1Hz to 200Hz, 30mins/axis, 3 axes (Non-operating);



Bump 10g, 16ms, 1000 cycles/axis, 3 axes

Shock Half sine, 2g, 11ms, 100cycles/direction, 6 directions (Operating)

Half sine, 25g, 205in/sec, 2 cycles/direction, 6 directions (Non-operating)

Altitude Altitude with 0 to 914 meters: working temperature from 0 to 45°C

Altitude with 914 to 2133 meter: working temperature from 10 to 32°C



8 Regulatory Compliance

The following lists the regulatory compliance supported by NF5280M5

Table 8-1. NF5280M5 compliance

No Country Certification Standards

1 China RoHS

SJ/T 11363-2006

SJ/T 11364-2006

GB/T 26572-2011

2 China CCC

GB4943.1-2011

GB9254-2008(ClassA)

GB17625.1-2012

3 Europe CE

Safety：

EN 60950-1: 2006 +A11: 2009 +A1: 2010 +A12: 2011 +A2:

2013

EMC:

EN 55032:2015,

EN 55024:2010,

EN61000-3-2:2014,

EN 61000-3-3:2013

RoHS:

2002/95/EC,2011/65/EU,EN50581：2012

WEEE:

2002/96/EC,2012/19/EU

4 USA FCC CFR 47 FCC Part 15 subpart B, 2017




9 Warranty

Inspur warrants that all Inspur-branded hardware products shall provide a period of three year

warranty. This document describes Warranty Service, including a detailed description of service

level. The warranty terms and conditions may vary by country, and some services and/or parts may

not be available in all countries. For more information about warranty services in your country,

contact Inspur technical support or Inspur local office

9.1 Warranty Service

9.1.1 Overview

Table 9-1. NF5280M5 warranty description

Type Duration

Remote Services 3 years

RMA Services 3 years

9.1.2 Terms & Conditions

Remote Services

Inspur provides 24x7 remote service through Hotline, E-mail and Website. Through Hotline and E-

mail Services, Inspur engineer helps customers determine the cause of the malfunction and

provide solution. Website service provides a number of resources to help customers resolve

problems, and learn our products, such as product manuals, drivers, Firmware. Below is how to

obtain our remote service

Table 9-2. NF5280M5 remote service

Type Description Response time

Hotline

1-844-860-0011(English)

1-646-517-4966(English)

86-800-860-0011(Chinese)

Within 2hrs

E-mail [email protected] Within 2hrs

Website http://en.inspur.com/

RMA Services

Customers can return defective parts to the designated Inspur site after submitting a service

request. Inspur may, at its discretion, repair or replace the defective parts. Repair or replacement

parts may be new, used, or equivalent to new in performance and reliability. Replaced or repaired

parts are warranted to be free of defects in material or workmanship for ninety (90) calendar days

or, for the remainder of the warranty period of the product, whichever is longer



9.2 Warranty Exclusions

Inspur does not guarantee that there will be no interruptions or mistakes during the use of the

products. Inspur will not undertake any responsibility for the losses arising from any operation not

conducted according to Inspur Hardware Products.

The Warranty Service Terms & Conditions do not apply to consumable parts, as well as any

products the serial number of which falls off, is damaged or obscure for the following reasons:

Accident, misuse, abuse, defiling, improper maintenance or calibration or other external causes

Operating beyond the parameters as stipulated in the user documentation

Use of the software, interface, parts or supplies not provided by Inspur

Improper preparation place or maintenance

Virus infection

Loss or damage in transit

Alterations or repairs have been made by unauthorized persons, or service organizations

Inspur does not undertake any responsibility for the damages or losses of any application, data or

removable storage medium. Except for the software installed by Inspur in its production of this

product, Inspur is not responsible for the restoration or reinstallation of any programs or data.



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