Cisco UCS B Series & C Series Servers

Cisco UCS B Series Servers

Currently UCS B Series servers have many generations launched, and at time of writing, Current generation available are fifth (M5) and Sixth(M6).

Cisco B series server comes with Full Width and Half-Width Physical Sizes.

Cisco UCS Servers either have two-CPU socket or Four CPU socket mainboard. To Understand this, we must know it nomenclature:

Example: Cisco UCS B200 M5 –

• UCS B Series Server
• 2 – Represents, Number of Socket on mainboard, it has 2 No of socket on mainboard. This digit can either be 2 or 4.
• M5: Model name and Generation (M Model – 5^th Generation)

Below are current UCS B Series Server:

• Cisco UCS B200 M5 blade server
• Cisco UCS B200 M6 blade server
• Cisco UCS B480 M5 blade server

Half-Width Blade Server

Half-Blade server takes half of the UCS B series server Chassis width, The Cisco UCS B200 M5 and B200 M6 are half-width servers.

UCS B200 M5 Blade Server

• Up to two second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable and Intel Xeon Scalable processors with up to 28 cores per CPU.
• Twenty-four DIMM slots for industry-standard DDR4 memory at speeds up to 2933 MHz, with up to 3TB of total memory when using 128GB DIMMs.
• Up to 12 DIMM slots ready for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory to accommodate up to 6TB of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory.
• Modular LAN On Motherboard (mLOM) card with Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1440 or 1340, a two-port, 40-Gigabit Ethernet (GE), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capable mLOM mezzanine adapter.
• Optional rear mezzanine VIC with two 40-Gbps unified I/O ports or two sets of 4× 10-Gbps unified I/O ports, delivering 80-Gbps to the server; adapts to either 10 or 40-Gbps fabric connections.
• Two optional, hot-pluggable, hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), or Nonvolatile Memory Express (NVMe) 2.5-inch drives with a choice of enterprise-class RAID (redundant array of independent disks) or pass-through controllers.
• Support for optional SD Card or M.2 SATA drives for flexible boot and local storage capabilities.
• Support for up to two optional GPUs.
• Support for one rear storage mezzanine card.
• Support for one 16GB internal flash USB drive.

UCS B200 M6 Blade Server:

• Up to two third-generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (with up to 40 cores per socket)
• Memory:
  • 32 DIMM slots (16 DIMMs per CPU socket)
  • 3200 MHz DDR4 memory, plus other speeds, depending on the CPU installed
  • 32× DDR4 DIMMs for up to 8TB of capacity using 256GB DIMMs, or
  • 16× DDR4 DIMMs + 16× Intel Optane persistent memory modules for up to 12TB of memory
• Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1440 modular LAN On Motherboard (mLOM)
• Two mezzanine card adapters:
  • One rear slot for the VIC (Cisco UCS VIC 1480 or port expander)
  • One front dedicated slot for a Cisco FlexStorage RAID controller, Cisco FlexStorage passthrough, or Cisco M.2 RAID controller
• Up to two SATA/NVMe disk drives or up to four M.2 drives

Full-Width Blade Server

A full-width blade server takes up the full width of a Cisco UCS B-Series server chassis, which means it takes two horizontal server slots in the chassis.

Cisco UCS B480 M5 Blade Server

It is the only currently offered full-width blade server, and it has the following characteristics:

• Four new second-generation Intel Xeon scalable CPUs (up to 28 cores per socket)
• Four existing Intel Xeon scalable CPUs (up to 28 cores per socket)
• Support for higher-density DDR4 memory, from 6TB (128G DDR4 DIMMs) to 12TB (256G DDR4 DIMMs)
• Memory speed increase from 2666 MHz to 2933 MHz
• Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Modules (DCPMMs): 128G, 256G, and 512G1
• Up to 18TB using 24× 256G DDR4 DIMMs and 24× 512G Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Modules
• Cisco Flex Storage storage subsystem
• Five mezzanine adapters and support for up to four NVIDIA GPUs
• Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1340 modular LAN On Motherboard (mLOM) and upcoming fourth-generation VIC mLOM
• Internal Secure Digital (SD) and M.2 boot options

Cisco UCS C-Series Servers & Cisco IMC Supervisor

Cisco UCS C-Series rack servers deliver unified computing in a rack-mount form factor. The Cisco UCS C-Series rack server family offers an entry point into unified computing. Cisco UCS C-Series rack servers offer the flexibility of standalone management or can be integrated as part of a Cisco UCS managed environment.

• Cisco UCS C220 M5 rack server
• Cisco UCS C240 M5 rack server
• Cisco UCS C480 M5 rack servers
• Cisco UCS C480 ML M5 rack servers
• Cisco UCS C4200 Series rack server chassis
• Cisco UCS C125 M5 rack server node

Cisco UCS 220 M5 C Series Server

• Latest (second-generation) Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs, with up to 28 cores per socket
• Support for first-generation Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs, with up to 28 cores per socket
• Up to 24 DDR4 DIMMs for improved performance
• Support for the Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory (128G, 256G, 512G)
• Up to 10 Small-Form-Factor (SFF) 2.5-inch drives or four Large-Form-Factor (LFF) 3.5-inch drives (77TB storage capacity with all NVMe PCIe SSDs)
• Support for a 12-Gbps SAS modular RAID controller in a dedicated slot, leaving the remaining PCIe Generation 3.0 slots available for other expansion cards
• Modular LAN-On-Motherboard (mLOM) slot that can be used to install a Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) without consuming a PCIe slot
• Dual embedded Intel x550 10GBASE-T LAN-On-Motherboard (LOM) ports

Cisco UCS 240 M5 C Series Server

• The latest (second-generation) Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs, with up to 28 cores per socket
• Support for the Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory (128G, 256G, 512G)
• Up to 24 DDR4 DIMMs for improved performance, including higher-density DDR4 DIMMs
• Up to 26 hot-swappable Small-Form-Factor (SFF) 2.5-inch drives, including two rear hot-swappable SFF drives (up to 10 support NVMe PCIe SSDs on the NVMe-optimized chassis version) or 12 Large-Form-Factor (LFF) 3.5-inch drives plus two rear hot-swappable SFF drives
• Support for 12-Gbps SAS modular RAID controller in a dedicated slot, leaving the remaining PCIe Generation 3.0 slots available for other expansion cards
• Modular LAN-On-Motherboard (mLOM) slot that can be used to install a Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) without consuming a PCIe slot, supporting dual 10 or 40-Gbps network connectivity
• Dual embedded Intel x550 10GBASE-T LAN-On-Motherboard (LOM) ports
• Modular M.2 or Secure Digital (SD) cards that can be used for boot

Cisco UCS C480 M5 C Series Server

• Four new second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs (up to 28 cores per socket)
• Four existing Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs (up to 28 cores per socket)
• Support for two-or four-processor configurations
• Support for the Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory (128G, 256G, 512G)
• Support for higher-density DDR4 memory, from 6TB (128G DDR4 DIMMs) to 12TB (256G DDR4 DIMMs)
• Memory speed increase from 2666 MHz to 2933 MHz
• Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Modules (DCPMM): 128G, 256G, and 512G1
• Up to 18TB using 24× 256G DDR4 DIMMs and 24× 512G Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Modules
• Up to four GPUs (two-CPU configuration) or six GPUs (four-CPU configuration) with offerings from NVIDIA and AMD
• Twelve PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 slots
• Six x8 full-height, full length slots
• Six x16 full-height, full length slots
• Flexible storage options with support up to 32 Small-Form-Factor (SFF) 2.5-inch, SAS, SATA, and PCIe NVMe disk drives
• Cisco 12Gbps SAS modular RAID controller in a dedicated slot
• Internal Secure Digital (SD) and M.2 boot options
• Dual embedded 10-Gigabit Ethernet LAN-On-Motherboard (LOM) ports