GIGABYTE GSM-RSD
Physical Layers and Software Architecture
Hardware: Intel® RSD adds the ability to dynamically compose physical hardware resources into the most optimal configuration for each workload. This ability to “compose on the fly” frees data center managers from re-partitioning hardware manually. When compute, storage, and network resources are under-utilized, they can be re-allocated with ease. Software: Intel® RSD is built on an open RESTful API standard that is gaining wide adoption in the industry. By using an open standard, end users are not “locked in” to a proprietary vendor’s solution. Using the open-sourced Intel® RSD reference software provides additional innovation and differentiation beyond the API standard.
In summary, Intel® RSD unlocks resources from physical servers, creates virtual pools of resources, applies resources to application workloads, composes resources and reconfigures as requirements change. After careful research and development into Intel’s RSD architecture, GIGABYTE has combined and integrated Intel’s RSD together with GIGABYTE’s Server Management (GSM) proprietary software into our products to realize software-defined data centers. We can provide complete GSM-RSD racks incorporating optimized rack servers, Racklution nodes and storage drawers, maximizing resource utilization by disaggregating compute, storage and networking, distributed within a rack or across multiple racks.