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2.2.4 Cisco UCS Chassis
The Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis is a crucial building block of the Cisco Unified Computing
System, delivering a scalable and flexible blade server chassis for today's and tomorrow's data center while
helping reduce TCO.
Cisco's first blade server chassis offering, the Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis, is six rack units (6RU) high
and can mount in an industry-standard 19-inch rack. A chassis can house up to eight half-width Cisco UCS B-
Series Blade Servers and can accommodate both half- and full-width blade form factors.
Four single-phase, hot-swappable power supplies are accessible from the front of the chassis. These power
supplies are 92 percent efficient and can be configured to support non-redundant, N+ 1 redundant and grid-
redundant configuration. The rear of the chassis contains eight hot-swappable fans, four power connectors (one
per power supply), and two I/O bays for Cisco UCS 2104XP Fabric Extenders.
A passive mid-plane provides up to 20 Gbps of I/O bandwidth per server slot and up to 40 Gbps of I/O bandwidth
for two slots. The chassis is capable of supporting future 40 Gigabit Ethernet standards.
Figure 7. Cisco Blade Server Chassis (front and back view)
2.2.5 Intel Xeon 5600 Series Processor
As data centers reach the upper limits of their power and cooling capacity, efficiency has become the focus of
extending the life of existing data centers and designing new ones. As part of these efforts, IT needs to refresh
existing infrastructure with standard enterprise servers that deliver more performance and scalability, more
efficiently. The Intel Xeon 5600 Series Processor automatically regulates power consumption and intelligently
adjusts server performance according to your application needs, both energy efficiency and performance. The
secret to this compelling combination is Intel’s new 32nmXeon microarchitecture. Featuring Intel Intelligent Power
Technology that automatically shifts the CPU and memory into the lowest available power state, while delivering
the performance you need, the Intel Xeon 5600 Series Processor with Intel Micro-architecture Xeon delivers the
same performance as previous-generation servers but uses up to 30 percent less power. You can achieve up to a
93 percent reduction in energy costs when consolidating your single-core infrastructure with a new infrastructure
built on Intel Xeon 5600 Series Processor.
This groundbreaking intelligent server technology features:
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Intel’s new 32nm Microarchitecture Xeon built with second-generation high-k and metal gate transistor
technology.
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Intelligent Performance that automatically optimizes performance to fit business and application
requirements and delivers up to 60 percent more performance per watt than Intel Xeon 5500 Series
Processor.
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Automated Energy Efficiency that scales energy usage to the workload to achieve optimal performance/watt
and with new 40 Watt options and lower power DDR3 memory, you can lower your energy costs even
further.