Cisco Cisco UCS B440 M1 High-Performance Blade Server White Paper

 

 

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Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade Server 

The Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade Server is a half-slot, 2-socket blade server. The system uses two Intel Xeon 

processors 5600 series, up to 192 GB of double-data-rate-3 (DDR3) memory, two optional Small Form Factor 

(SFF) SAS and 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 Server 

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 and 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 Server 

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 series and up to 32 DIMM slots, which support up to 512 GB of memory. The 

Cisco UCS B230 M2 supports two SSD drives and one CNA mezzanine slot for up to 20 Gbps of I/O throughput. 

The Cisco UCS B230 M2 Blade Server platform delivers outstanding performance, memory, and I/O capacity to 

meet the diverse needs of virtualized environments with advanced reliability and exceptional scalability for the most 

demanding applications. 

Cisco UCS B440 M2 High-Performance Blade Server 

The Cisco UCS B440 M2 High-Performance Blade Server is a full-slot, 2-socket blade server offering the 

performance and reliability of the Intel Xeon processor E7-4800 series and up to 512 GB of memory. The Cisco 

UCS B440 M2 supports four SFF SAS and SSD drives and two CNA mezzanine slots for up to 40 Gbps of I/O 

throughput. The Cisco UCS B440 M2 blade server extends Cisco UCS by offering increased performance, 

scalability, and reliability for mission-critical workloads. 

Benchmark Profile  

Cisco conducted a benchmark test in the Cisco Oracle Competency Center with an Oracle PeopleSoft workload to 
measure the response times of Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Resources Management System (HRMS) 

9.1 with Oracle PeopleSoft Payroll for North America using Oracle Database 11g on Red Hat Enterprise 

Linux(RHEL) 5.6. The Cisco UCS platform consisted of a standard Oracle PeopleSoft three-tier tech stack of web, 

application, and database servers. The database servers were set up as two-node Oracle Real Application 

Clusters (RAC). The web server was on a Cisco UCS B200 M2 (two CPUs and 4 cores), the application servers 

were on the Cisco UCS B200 M2 (two CPUs and six cores), and the database servers were on the Cisco UCS 

B230 M2 (two CPUs and 10 cores). The entire setup was SAN bootable as specified by Cisco UCS standards. The 

web, application, and database storage was carved out of an EMC VNX5500. Table 1 summarizes the results. 

Summary of Results 

240,000 employees 

240,000 payments 

56.4 minutes 

255,319 payments per hour (calculated)