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SC4200 Overview

This document describes the installation process of the SC4200 storage controller

The SC4200 storage controller is Celestica's next-generation 2U rack mount NVMe platform. Supporting up to 24 PCIe NVMe dual-port solid state drives (SSDs) with two redundant computing nodes based on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. SC4200's high performance, low-latency design has the flexibility to work for converged or more malleable composable applications.

Optimized for:

  • External Controller-based Storage Array
  • Enterprise SDS
  • HPC and Machine Learning Platforms
  • Date Warehousing and Data Lake
  • SaaS Infrastructure and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

Features

  • 2U chassis, fits 19" rack

  • 2x hot-swap computing nodes

  • 24x PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSDs

  • Dual redundant (1+1) power supplies

  • 4x PCIe (x16) low profile slots per node

  • Optional on-board BBUs available for node power in the event of AC power loss

Node Features

  • Dual third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, socket LGA4189

  • 16x DDR4 DIMMs support RDIMM/LRDIMM with 2x Barlow Pass Optane® Persistent Memory

  • Support BMC (ASPEED AST2500)

  • 4x PCIe Gen4 x16 slots

  • 2x 10GbE LAN (RJ45)

Key Components

Figure 1. SC4200 Front Panel
Figure 2. SC4200 Rear Panel

Canister

There are five LEDs on the rear of each canister to indicate the status. From left to right:

  • Canister Power LED (Green)
    • On – Canister power is on
    • Off – Canister power is off
  • Canister Status LED (Green for customization)
    • Off – The controller power is off
    • Slow Blink @ 1Hz – The controller is currently dumping Data in FHD
    • Fast Blink @ 4Hz – The controller is currently dumping Data in FHD
    • Solid – The controller is active and joined a cluster
  • Canister Fault LED (Amber)
    • On – Fault conditions exists in local Canister
    • Off – Normal operation
  • Canister BBU Status LED (Green)
    • Off – BBU charge function is not enabled or BBU is not in discharging status
    • Blink @ 1Hz – The BBU is in charging mode
    • Solid – The BBU is in full charge status and not discharging
  • Canister BBU Fault LED (Amber)
    • Off – No faults detected by the controller with the BBU
    • Blink @ 1Hz – The BBU is in discharging status
    • Solid – Fault condition exists in BBU, It is driven by MCU. System also can make this LED solid on through the I2C bus.