Product Overview
The Boston Fenway 2104-0T, powered by Intel's latest generation Xeon E3-1200 v5 series (codename Skylake), brings never seen before performance to the SME and dedicated hosting segment. Now featuring DDR-4 memory up to 2133MHz and 64GB capacity, even memory hungry workloads are well within its grasp.
The Boston Fenway 2104-0T, powered by Intel's latest generation Xeon™ E3-1200 v5 series (codename Skylake), brings never seen before performance to the SME and dedicated hosting segment. Now featuring DDR-4 memory up to 2133MHz and 64GB capacity, even memory hungry workloads are well within its grasp.
Intel's Xeon™ E3-1200 v5 series brings a whole host of extra features to the Boston Fenway 2104-0T too. The biggest change in the architecture over its predecessor is the DDR memory interface moving from DDR3 to DDR4, while also increasing the clock speed to 2133MHz. Additionally, there are more traditional performance increases with a 15% improvement in CPU performance and 14% improvement in memory bandwidth.
The v5 architecture brings forth performance gains with native 3.0 PCI-E, USB 3.0 and SATA 3 interfaces.. While these features have been seen previously they were not always natively supported by the Intel chipset and were provided through the use of 3rd party controllers.
Storage options have been brought into the future with the addition of optional NVMe support alongside the more traditional storage options in the form of 8 x 2.5" SAS / SATA bays with inclusive SAS 3.0 / 12Gbits support. Combining these allows for a tiered approached to your storage that meets both performance and capacity requirements in a relatively small form factor.
Native 10GbE Base-T ports laid down on the motherboard enable high bandwidth networking with 10GbE backbones, but can also still operate at the lower rate with more commonly found 1GbE switches until your next networking refresh.
All of these technological and performance increases have been squeezed down into a 1U rack mount form factor. While the newer features outlined are rolled into the platform, this does not impact features expected. The Boston Fenway 2104-0T has up to 8 SATA/SAS hot swap bays, Supermicro's IPMI (out of band management) and platinum certified redundant power supplies as standard.
Key Features
Intel Xeon1200 V5 architecture support (Skylake DDR4 memory support (2133MHz) Maximum supported memory capacity has increased from 32GB to 64GB 8 x SAS 3.0 2.5” Hot-pluggable disk bays Optional NVMe support for 2.5” form factor Dual 10GbE Base-T Network ports onboard PCI Express Generation 3.0 x8 Slot Supermicro IPMI Gold level Power supplies
-
BIOS Features
ACPI 1.0 / 2.0 / 3.0 / 4.0
APM 1.2
DMI 2.3
Hardware BIOS Virus protection
PCI 2.3
Plug and Play (PnP)
RTC (Real Time Clock) Wakeup
SMBIOS 2.7.1
UEFI 2.3.1
USB keyboard support
-
BIOS Type
128MB SPI Flash with AMI UEFI
-
Buttons
Power On/Off button
System Reset button
-
Certifications
80 Plus Platinum
-
Chipset
Intel C236 chipset
-
Colour
Black
-
CPU Quantity (Installed)
1
-
CPU Series
Intel Xeon E3-1200 v6
-
Drive Bays
8 x 2.5" Hot-swap SAS/SATA
-
Error Detection
Corrects single-bit errors
Detects double-bit errors (using ECC memory)
-
Expansion Slots
1 x PCI-E 3.0 x2 (in x4) slot
1 x PCI-E 3.0 x8
-
Form Factor
1U
-
Graphics
ASPEED AST2400 BMC
-
Input/Output
1 x RJ45 Dedicated IPMI LAN port
1 x TPM 1.2 20-pin Header
1 x VGA
2 x COM Ports
2 x RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports
2 x SuperDOM (Disk on Module) ports with built-in power
5 x USB 3.0 ports (2 rear + 2 via header + 1 Type A)
6 x USB 2.0 ports (2 rear, 4 via header)
8 x SAS3 (12Gbps) ports
8 x SATA3 (6Gbps) ports
-
IPMI
Aspeed AST2400 BMC
IPMI 2.0 with virtual media over LAN and KVM-over-LAN support
Support for Intelligent Platform Management Interface v.2.0
-
LED indicators
2 x Network activity LEDs
HDD activity LED
Power status LED
Unit ID LED
-
Manufacturer
Boston
-
Memory (Installed)
64GB
-
Memory Slots
4
-
Memory Speed
2133MHz
-
Memory Type
ECC DDR4 SDRAM 72-bit
-
Memory Voltage
1.2V
-
Network Adapter
Dual Intel X550 10GBase-T Ethernet LAN ports
Supports 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T, RJ45 output
Virtual Machine Device Queues High efficient I/O overhead
-
Power Management
ACPI Power Management
CPU Fan Auto-off in Sleep Mode
Keyboard Wakeup from Soft-Off
Power-on mode for AC power recovery
-
Product Range
Boston Fenway
-
SAS Controller
LSI 3008 SAS3 (12Gbps) controller; SW RAID 0, 1, 10
-
SATA Controller
RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support
SATA3 (6Gbps) via C236 controller
-
Software Management
Intel Node Manager
IPMI 2.0 with KVM support
NMI
Superdoctor 5
Watch Dog