Cisco Cisco UCS M4308 Modular Chassis Fiche De Données

The Cisco UCS M4308 modular chassis is a highly dense, modular, power efficient platform for parallelized 
workloads offering optimal performance per Watt, large number of processor cores per rack unit, with 
policy based provisioning, automation, and management.

This new offering extends the capabilities of Cisco’s Unified Computing System portfolio in a 2U form factor 
with up to eight slots in the front of the chassis that accommodate up to eight single-wide cartridges. The 
chassis architecture supports a variety of cartridges such as compute, storage, or any other special function 
cartridge. Any of the 8 slots can support compute server modules. In addition, there are three special slots 
that can accommodate other functions. For example, slots 3 and 4 support future storage cartridges or 
modules. Each of these slots supports two SAS/SATA interfaces. Slot 8 supports a future PCIe adapter. The 
function is limited only by the form factor of the cartridge.

The rear of the chassis supports 4 SSDs that are connected to an internal removable RAID controller. The 
storage complex is distributed to the pluggable cartridges in a virtualized way provided by a custom ASIC 
and driver firmware. In addition, there is one half-width/half-height PCI slot for possible future use. 
Network I/O is provided by two 40-Gbps QSFP ports that aggregate all cartridge I/O as well as all 
management traffic. An upstream VNTAG capable top of rack switch is required for the total solution.