Cisco UCS-EZ7-B230-EX256 Hoja De Datos
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Excellent for financial services companies and service providers, the Cisco UCS B230 M2 is designed to efficiently
handle demanding database workloads, such as Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC), Microsoft SQL, and
single-instance Oracle database workloads, as well as virtualized workloads using VMware ESX and Microsoft
HyperV.
The powerful Cisco UCS B230 M2 offers an innovative combination of performance, density, energy efficiency and
cost-effective value.
Table 2 summarizes the features and benefits of the Cisco UCS B230 M2.
Table 2.
Features and Benefits
Feature
Benefit
Unified Fabric
●
Decreases total cost of ownership (TCO) by reducing the number of network interface cards (NICs), host bus
adapters (HBAs), switches, and cables needed
Integration with Cisco UCS
Manager Service Profiles
Manager Service Profiles
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Helps reduce the number of manual steps required to deploy servers in the data center, improving server
policy consistency and coherency
●
Allows servers and support infrastructure to be provisioned in minutes instead of days, shifting IT’s focus from
maintenance to strategic initiatives
Autodiscovery
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Requires no configuration; as with all components in the Cisco Unified Computing System, blades are
automatically recognized and configured by Cisco UCS Manager
Extensive Monitoring
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Through Cisco UCS Manager, provides extensive environmental monitoring for each blade
●
Allows use of user thresholds to optimize environmental management of the blade
Mezzanine Adapters
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Provides choice of CNAs and virtual interface adapters, providing flexibility, increased performance,
compatibility with industry standards, and network policy coherence for virtualized environments
Optional Local Storage
●
Supports up to two front-accessible and hot-swappable SSDs
●
Supports RAID 0 and 1
Intel
®
Xeon
®
Processor
E7-2800 Product Family
●
Provide performance, memory and I/O capacity to meet the diverse needs of a virtualized environment as
well as the most computation-intensive standalone applications
●
Use Intel Turbo Boost Technology and Intel Intelligent Power Technology to adapt processor performance to
application demands and intelligently scale energy use based on utilization, reducing costs while still
delivering the performance required
delivering the performance required
●
Offer advanced reliability features, including Machine Check Architecture Recovery, to automatically monitor,
report, and recover from hardware errors to maintain data integrity and keep mission-critical services online
Specifications
Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers are designed for use in the Cisco Unified Computing System environment and
require Cisco UCS Manager and Cisco UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects, 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis,
and 2200 Series Fabric Extenders to function in this integrated environment.
Table 3 summarizes the specifications for the Cisco UCS B230 M2.
Table 3.
Product Specifications
Item
Specification
Processors
●
1 or 2 Intel
®
Xeon
®
processor E7-2800 product family
Processor Cores
●
6, 8, or 10 cores, varying by processor model
Memory
●
32 DIMM slots
●
Maximum of 512 GB memory capacity
Mezzanine Adapter Slots
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1 per Cisco UCS B230 M2
Disk Drives
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Up to 2 front-accessible, hot-swappable SSDs per blade
Disk Drive Options
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100-GB, 200-GB and 300-GB Enterprise Performance SSDs
●
100-GB and 400-GB Enterprise Value SSDs
Maximum Internal Storage
●
Up to 128 GB