Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers

The Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Server delivers performance, flexibility, and optimization for deployments in data centers, in the cloud, and at remote sites. This enterprise-class server offers market-leading performance, versatility, and density without compromise for workloads, including Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), web infrastructure, distributed databases, converged infrastructure, and enterprise applications such as Oracle and SAP HANA. The B200 M5 server can quickly deploy stateless physical and virtual workloads through programmable, easy-to-use Cisco UCS Manager and Cisco Intersight™ and simplified server access through Cisco SingleConnect technology. It includes:

• 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable and Intel Xeon Scalable processors with up to 28 cores per socket
• Up to 24 DDR4 DIMMs for improved performance with up to 12 DIMM slots ready for Intel Optane™ DC Persistent Memory
• Up to 2 GPUs
• Up to 2 Small Form-Factor (SFF) drives
• Up to 2 SD cards or M.2 SATA drives
• Up to 80 Gbps of I/O throughput

The Cisco UCS B200 M5 server is a half-width blade. Up to eight servers can reside in the 6-Rack-Unit (6RU) Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis, offering one of the highest densities of servers per rack unit of blade chassis in the industry. You can configure the B200 M5 to meet your local storage requirements without having to buy, power, and cool components that you do not need.
The Cisco UCS B200 M5 provides these main features:

• Up to two 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable and Intel Xeon Scalable processors with up to 28 cores per CPU
• 24 DIMM slots for industry-standard DDR4 memory at speeds up to 2933 MHz, with up to 3 TB of total memory when using 128-GB DIMMs. Up to 12 DIMM slots ready for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory to accommodate up to 6 TB of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory
• Modular LAN on Motherboard (mLOM) card with Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1440 or 1340, a 2-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 x 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 Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) 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 2 optional GPUs
• Support for one rear storage mezzanine card
• Support for one 16-GB internal flash USB drive

The enterprise-class Cisco UCS® B480 M5 Blade Server delivers market-leading performance, versatility, and density without compromise for memory-intensive mission-critical enterprise applications and virtualized workloads, among others. With the B480 M5, you can quickly deploy stateless physical and virtual workloads with the programmability that Cisco UCS Manager and Cisco SingleConnect technology enable. Customers gain support for Intel Xeon scalable processors, higher density 256G DDR4 DIMMs, new second-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, and the new Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory. Additionally, these B480 M5 servers offer up to 12 terabytes (TB) of DDR4 memory or 18 TB using 24x256G DDR4 DIMMs and 24x512G Intel® Optane DC Persistent Memory; four SAS, SATA, and NVMe drives; M.2 storage; up to four GPUs and 160 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for I/O throughput, all leading to exceptional performance, flexibility, and I/O throughput to run your most demanding applications. The B480 M5 is a full-width blade server supported by the Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis. The 5108 chassis and the Cisco B-Series Blade Servers provide inherent architectural advantages:

• Through Cisco UCS, gives you the architectural advantage of not having to power, cool, manage, and purchase excess switches (management, storage, and networking), Host Bus Adapters (HBAs), and Network Interface Cards (NICS) in each blade chassis
• Reduces the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by removing management modules from the chassis, making the chassis stateless
• Provides a single, highly available Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS) management domain for all system chassis and rack servers, reducing administrative tasks

The Cisco UCS B480 M5 Blade Server delivers flexibility, density, and expandability in a 4-socket, full-width form factor for enterprise and mission-critical applications. It offers:

• 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 6 TB (128G DDR4 DIMMs) to 12 TB (256G DDR4 DIMMs)
• Memory speeds increase from 2666 MHz to 2933 MHz
• Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Modules (DCPMM) - 128G, 256G, and 512G1
• Up to 18 TB using 24x256G DDR4 DIMMs and 24x512G Intel® Optane DC Persistent Memory Modules
• Cisco FlexStorage 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