Cisco Cisco UCS 6248UP 48-Port Fabric Interconnect White Paper
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Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1280
A Cisco innovation, the Cisco UCS VIC 1280 is an eight-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet, FCoE-capable mezzanine card
designed exclusively for Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers.
designed exclusively for Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers.
The Cisco UCS VIC 1240 and 1280 enable a policy-based, stateless, agile server infrastructure that can present
up to 256 PCI Express (PCIe) standards-compliant interfaces to the host that can be dynamically configured as
either NICs or HBAs. In addition, the Cisco UCS VIC 1280 supports Cisco Data Center VM-FEX technology, which
extends the Cisco UCS fabric interconnect ports to virtual machines, simplifying server virtualization deployment.
up to 256 PCI Express (PCIe) standards-compliant interfaces to the host that can be dynamically configured as
either NICs or HBAs. In addition, the Cisco UCS VIC 1280 supports Cisco Data Center VM-FEX technology, which
extends the Cisco UCS fabric interconnect ports to virtual machines, simplifying server virtualization deployment.
Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis
The Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis is a 6RU blade chassis that accepts up to eight half-width Cisco UCS
B-Series Blade Servers or up to four full-width Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers, or a combination of the two.
The Cisco UCS 5108 can accept four redundant power supplies with automatic load sharing and failover and two
Cisco UCS 2100 or 2200 Series Fabric Extenders. The chassis is managed by Cisco UCS chassis management
controllers, which are mounted in the Cisco UCS fabric extenders and work in conjunction with Cisco UCS
Manager to control the chassis and its components.
B-Series Blade Servers or up to four full-width Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers, or a combination of the two.
The Cisco UCS 5108 can accept four redundant power supplies with automatic load sharing and failover and two
Cisco UCS 2100 or 2200 Series Fabric Extenders. The chassis is managed by Cisco UCS chassis management
controllers, which are mounted in the Cisco UCS fabric extenders and work in conjunction with Cisco UCS
Manager to control the chassis and its components.
A single Cisco UCS managed domain can theoretically scale to up to 40 individual chassis and 320 blade servers.
At this time, Cisco UCS supports up to 20 individual chassis and 160 blade servers.
At this time, Cisco UCS supports up to 20 individual chassis and 160 blade servers.
Basing the I/O infrastructure on a 10-Gbps unified network fabric allows Cisco UCS to have a streamlined chassis
with a simple yet comprehensive set of I/O options. The result is a chassis that has only five basic components:
with a simple yet comprehensive set of I/O options. The result is a chassis that has only five basic components:
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The physical chassis with passive midplane and active environmental monitoring circuitry
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Four power supply bays with power entry in the rear and hot-swappable power supply units accessible from
the front panel
the front panel
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Eight hot-swappable fan trays, each with two fans
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Two fabric extender slots accessible from the back panel
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Eight blade server slots accessible from the front panel
Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade Servers
The Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade Server is a half-slot, 2-socket blade server. The system uses two Intel Xeon p5600
series processors, up to 192 GB of double-data-rate-3 (DDR3) memory, two optional Small Form Factor (SFF)
SAS/SSD disk drives, and a single CNA mezzanine slot for up to 20 Gbps of I/O throughput. The Cisco UCS B200
M2 Blade Server balances simplicity, performance, and density for production-level virtualization and other
mainstream data center workloads.
The Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade Server is a half-slot, 2-socket blade server. The system uses two Intel Xeon p5600
series processors, up to 192 GB of double-data-rate-3 (DDR3) memory, two optional Small Form Factor (SFF)
SAS/SSD disk drives, and a single CNA mezzanine slot for up to 20 Gbps of I/O throughput. The Cisco UCS B200
M2 Blade Server balances simplicity, performance, and density for production-level virtualization and other
mainstream data center workloads.
Cisco UCS B250 M2 Extended Memory Blade Servers
The Cisco UCS B250 M2 Extended-Memory Blade Server is a full-slot, 2-socket blade server using Cisco
Extended Memory Technology. The system supports two Intel Xeon processors 5600 series, up to 384 GB of
DDR3 memory, two optional SFF SAS/SSD disk drives, and two CNA mezzanine slots for up to 40 Gbps of I/O
throughput. The Cisco UCS B250 M2 blade server provides increased performance and capacity for demanding
virtualization and large-data-set workloads, with greater memory capacity and throughput.
Extended Memory Technology. The system supports two Intel Xeon processors 5600 series, up to 384 GB of
DDR3 memory, two optional SFF SAS/SSD disk drives, and two CNA mezzanine slots for up to 40 Gbps of I/O
throughput. The Cisco UCS B250 M2 blade server provides increased performance and capacity for demanding
virtualization and large-data-set workloads, with greater memory capacity and throughput.
Cisco UCS B230 M2 Blade Servers
The Cisco UCS B230 M2 Blade Server is a full-slot, 2-socket blade server offering the performance and reliability
of the Intel Xeon processor E7-2800 product family and up to 32 DIMM slots, which support up to 512 GB of
of the Intel Xeon processor E7-2800 product family and up to 32 DIMM slots, which support up to 512 GB of