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PPerseus

The Perseus series motherboard is a Storage Bridge Bay (SBB) 2.0 compliant blade design based on the advanced Intel Cranberry Lake hardware platform. It is the first hot-pluggable motherboard design ever following an industry standard, and offering board-to-board communication path allowing users to design an all-in-one high-availability system.

Designed to support a single Intel 5000 series Xeon processor and an onboard Maxim VSC7157 3G SAS Expander, Perseus is capable of supporting up to 24x SAS/SATA hard disk drives in a single enclosure. Optional LSI 1068e SAS IOC Mezzanine module allows users to run software RAID over this platform. A second optional PCIe x8 Quad-GbE Mezzanine module is provided for high bandwidth network connectivity, and a third PCIe x8 slot is routed to the chassis mid-plane for further I/O expansion use.

Perseus SBB 2.0 motherboard is a modular and pluggable design suitable for enterprise-class storage appliance application, and can be used in various SBB 2.0 compliant storage enclosures from AIC from 12 to 24 bays.

Features :

• Support a single Intel quad-core or dual-core 5000 series processor along with the Intel 5100 MCH for superior performance and low power-consumption

• 5 - 7 years of product life cycle (Based on chipset roadmap)

• Support hot-plug and fail-over path to the second motherboard

• Quad-GbE Mezzanine over PCIe x8 bus for host connectivity

• LSI 1068e SAS IOC Mezzanine over PCIe x8 bus + onboard Maxim 36-PHY SAS expander for support up to 24x SAS/SATA disks

• SBB 2.0 compliant, supporting any SBB 2.0 compliant enclosure

• Ideal for enterprise NAS, iSCSI, SAN Gateway, and other storage application appliances

Motherboard

Dimensions

mm : 272 x 203.2inches : 10.7 x 8

7 x High Speed Connectors for SBB Canister to Backplane

SBB PowerConnector

Insertion Pin Guide for SBB Canister/Backplane

Intel® 82571 GbE Chipset

Intel® 5100 2 x Reg ECC DDR2 DIMM Sockets

SPI BIOS

Intel® ICH9

Intel® 82566 GbE Chipset

Power Button

RJ45 Port for Intel® 82566 GbE NIC

2 x USB

Reset Button

Maxim VSC7157SAS Expander

LGA771 CPU Socket

LSI SAS1068e IOC

Quad Port GbE

MB

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System :

Processor Support

Single LGA771 socket to support Intel®Dual Core/Quad Core Xeon® processors

System Chipset

• Intel® 5100+ ICH9 1066/1333 MHz FSB• Maxim VSC7157 SAS Expander

Storage 4 GB USB Flash Disk

System Memory

• 2 DIMM slots support up to 16 GB of DDR2 533/667 Reg ECC SDRAM• 2 MB system flash• 8 MB IO processors flash• 4 MB expander Flash + 2 MB expander SDRAM

Expansion

• Compact flash port• External mini SAS connector• 7 x high-speed connectors for SBB canister to backplane• 2 x 2x50 high-speed board-to-board connectors• 1 x 2x70 hgh-speed board-to-board connectors

System BIOS : BIOS Type• 2 MB AMI BIOS• SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) FLASH

Management :

SystemManagement Implemented in SAS expander and ICH9

Battery Backup

Supports an 18650 rechargeable lithium ion battery

Ethernet :

Network Controller

• Intel® 82571 dual GbE controller for inter-canister communication• Intel® 82566 single GbE controller for management

Connector 1 x RJ45

Input/Output :

I/O Chipset & Expansion

• Intel® ICH9• 1 x SATA2 port

USB 2 x USB 2.0

Connectors• 1 x 2x6 header for port 80 debug card• 1 x 2x4 header for serial port card• 2 x serial connections

Mezzanine Card Options

• LSI SAS1068e IOC • Quad port GbE

SPECIFICATIONSPart Number Description

PSG-M-PEUP5100-111 Perseus Motherboard