DataON K2N/K3N-7216 Switchless Integrated Systems for Azure Local combine Intel® technology with Azure Arc-enabled Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI).

Optimized for IOPS & performance with all-NVMe flash storage and powered by 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors, the K2N/K3N-7216 are designed for smaller, remote deployments such as small-to-medium sized businesses, remote office/branch offices and edge computing.

Integrated Systems provide an “appliance-like” experience, delivering the fastest time-to-value through the convenience of pre-installed software, integrated drivers, and firmware updates. Simple to procure and deploy, they’re turnkey solutions that require little deployment effort from IT staff.

Available in 2- and 3-node versions, DataON Kepler Integrated Systems feature switchless back-to-back networking for peak simplicity and affordability, plus innovative technologies that set Azure Local apart at the small scale. Nested resiliency protects you from multiple concurrent failures. Cloud quorum technologies can leverage Azure instead of an appliance virtual machine for a quorum. Kepler 3-node (K3N) solutions provide an additional layer of resiliency over Kepler 2-node (K2N) solutions, essential in environments or multiple ROBO and edge deployments that require 3-way mirror fault tolerance.

ModelDataON K2N/K3N-7216 Switchless Integrated System for Azure Local
ProfileAll-NVMe; IOPS & performance
Form Factor2U / 1-Node rack server
Scalability2 to 16 Nodes per cluster
CPU5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors
CoreDual socket, 8-80 cores (per node)
Memory512GB – 8TB DDR5 MT/s DIMMs
Raw Storage3TB – 245TB
Drive Bay Configuration16x 2.5” NVMe U.2
PCIe Slot Configuration2x PCIe 5.0 x8; 4x PCIe 5.0 x8 (electrical and x16 mechanical); 2x PCIe 5.0 x16 (electrical/mechanical)
Onboard Networking2x 10GbE RJ45 OCP mezzanine (per node)
Add-on Networking2x 25GbE SFP28 or 2x 40/50/100GbE QSFP 28/56 2-port RDMA (per node)
GPU SupportNo
PMEM SupportNo
Secured-core ServerYes
Kernel Soft RebootYes
Vectorized AESYes
VM Memory EncryptionYes

DataON Exclusives for Integrated Systems for Azure Local

Premium deployment and training

DataON provides pre-deployment baseline testing, benchmarking, and stress testing. Azure Local is pre-installed with the latest verified firmware and drivers. Plus, DataON provides sixteen hours of customer deployment services.

DataON MUST and MUST Pro are included

DataON MUST and MUST Pro keeps your system updated via cluster aware updating so you always have the latest Microsoft-validated OS, drivers, firmware, BIOS, and BMC versions, with minimum disruptions to your system.

World-class service and support

DataON is an exclusive Microsoft partner and our team of Azure Local experts provide white glove service to make sure you stay up and running. Plus, you’ll get joint support from both Microsoft & DataON for an integrated experience.

Workload-optimized performance with 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors

5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors help boost performance, reduce costs, and improve power efficiency for today’s demanding workloads, including AI, HPC, security, networking, analytics, and storage.

Solidigm NVMe SSDs for performance software-defined storage

Solidigm TLC NAND and QLC NAND SSDs provide high performance and low latency or Azure Stack HCI. All-flash SSDs offer the performance and reliability needed to support multiple workloads with high performance in a single HCI cluster.

NVIDIA networking delivers industry-leading performance & efficiency

NVIDIA ConnectX SmartNICs offer flexibility, higher performance and lower latency through RoCE v2 technology. This allows for more virtual appliances, virtual machines (VMs), and tenants to co-exist on the same hardware.

“DataON offers some of our favorite Azure Stack HCI solutions. The DataON cluster we’ve been testing has posted tremendous numbers, the fastest we’ve seen in a mid-market 4-node HCI cluster.

We’re really impressed with what such a small company (relatively speaking) is achieving. ”

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Resources

DataON Kepler Family
Quick Reference Guide

Azure Stack HCI
Datasheet

Arc-Enabled
Azure Stack HCI Solution Brief

Hybrid Cloud Use Cases
for Azure Stack HCI

5th Gen Intel® Xeon®
Processors Solution Brief

A Simpler Path to Azure Stack HCI
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