Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers

Whether you´re a service provider looking for maximum density, a manufacture modeling new designs, a retailer analyzing consumer trends, or a data scientist modeling a financial market, your ability to scale computing efficiently to meet demand is crucial to gaining a competitive edge.

The Cisco UCS® C4200 Series Rack Server Chassis delivers outstanding performance for space-constrained environments. It is among the most versatile general-purpose enterprise infrastructure and application servers in the industry. Supporting up to four Cisco UCS C125 M5 2-socket rack server nodes it delivers industry-leading performance and efficiency for a wide range of workloads, including scale-out/compute intensive, general service provider, and bare-metal applications. The Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers can be deployed as standalone servers or as part of the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) to take advantage of Cisco standards-based unified computing innovations that help reduce customers Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and increase their business agility. The C4200 chassis extends the capabilities of the Cisco UCS portfolio in a 2-Rack-Unit (2RU) form factor supporting up to four Cisco UCS C125 M5 Rack Server Nodes. The latest update includes support for AMD EPYC 2 (Rome) 7002 processors. The AMD EPYC 2 processors have higher core density (up to 64 cores) and higher performance with an enhanced AMD Zen 2 core design. The existing AMD EPYC 7001 processors, will continue to be offered for flexibility of customer choice. Both CPUs types delivering significant performance and efficiency gains in a compact form factor that will improve your application performance while saving space. The C4200 and the C125 M5 nodes deliver outstanding levels of capability and performance in a highly compact package, with:

• AMD EPYC 7002 (Rome) series processors, with up to 64 cores per socket, AMD EPYC 7001 (Naples) series processors with up to 32 cores per socket.
• Up to 1 TB of DRAM using sixteen 64-GB DDR4 DIMMs for 2-socket CPU configuration (eight DIMMs/memory channels per CPU)
• 3200 MHz 16G/32G/64G DIMMs for AMD EPYC 7002 (Rome) CPUs and 2666 MHz 16G/32G/64G DIMMs of AMD EPYC 7001 (Naples) CPUs.
• Over 45 TB of storage, with up to six Small-Form-Factor (SFF) 2.5-inch direct-attached drives per node.
  • Either six direct attach SAS/SATA drives or two NVMe plus four SAS/SATA drives
• Optional dual SD cards or M.2 modular storage for increased storage or boot drive capacity
• Support for the Cisco® 12-G 9460-8i PCIe SAS RAID controller with 2-GB Flash-Backed Write Cache (FBWC)
• Support for the Cisco® 12-G 9400-8i PCIe SAS controller for use with external disk arrays
• OCP 2.0 network mezzanine slot supporting speeds up to 100 Gbps
• Support for Cisco´s fourth-generation PCIe Virtual Interface Card (VIC)

The Cisco UCS C4200 Series Rack Server Chassis is well suited for a wide range of industry-driven workloads in areas such as:

• Research and education
• Aerospace
• Finance
• Manufacturing
• Oil and gas
• Gaming

Cisco provides adaptive management for a new era of IT infrastructure with Cisco Intersight™. Cisco Intersight simplifies and automates IT Operations Management (ITOM) to make daily activities easier and more efficient. We have extended our vision of adaptive management to the C4200 platform. You can efficiently implement operations automation of your IT infrastructure from the data center to the edge.

The C125 M5 nodes can be deployed as standalone servers or in a Cisco UCS managed environment. When used in combination with Cisco UCS Manager, the C4200 brings the power and automation of unified computing to enterprise applications, including Cisco SingleConnect technology, drastically reducing switching and cabling requirements.

Cisco UCS Manager uses service profiles, templates, and policy-based management to enable rapid deployment and help ensure deployment consistency. If also enables end-to-end server visibility, management, and control in both virtualized and bare-metal environments.

The Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) delivers comprehensive out-of-band server management with support for many industry standards, including:

• Redfish Version 1.01 (v1.01)
• Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) v2.0
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v2 and v3
• Syslog
• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
• Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP)
• HTML5 GUI
• HTML5 virtual Keyboard, Video, and Mouse (vKVM)
• Command-Line Interface (CLI)
• XML API management Software Development Kits (SDKs) and DevOps integrations exist for Python, Microsoft PowerShell, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and more. For more information about integrations, see Cisco DevNet

The Cisco UCS C220 M5 Rack Server is among the most versatile general-purpose enterprise infrastructure and application servers in the industry. It is a high-density 2-socket rack server that delivers industry-leading performance and efficiency for a wide range of workloads, including virtualization, collaboration, and bare-metal applications. The Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers can be deployed as standalone servers or as part of the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) to take advantage of Cisco standards-based unified computing innovations that help reduce customers Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and increase their business agility. The Cisco UCS C220 M5 server extends the capabilities of the Cisco UCS portfolio in a 1-Rack-Unit (1RU) form factor. It incorporates the Intel Xeon Scalable processors, supporting up to 20 percent more cores per socket, twice the memory capacity, 20 percent greater storage density, and five times more PCIe NVMe Solid-State Disks (SSDs) compared to the previous generation of servers. These improvements deliver significant performance and efficiency gains that will improve your application performance. The C220 M5 delivers outstanding levels of expandability and performance in a compact package, with:

• Latest (second generation) Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs with up to 28 cores per socket
• Supports 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)[1]
• Up to 10 Small-Form-Factor (SFF) 2.5-inch drives or 4 Large-Form-Factor (LFF) 3.5-inch drives (77 TB storage capacity with all NVMe PCIe SSDs)
• 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
• Dual embedded Intel x550 10GBASE-T LAN-On-Motherboard (LOM) ports

The Cisco UCS C220 M5 Rack Server is well-suited for a wide range of workloads, including:

• IT and web infrastructure
• High-performance virtual desktops
• Medium-sized and distributed databases
• Middleware
• Collaboration
• Public cloud

C220 M5 servers can be deployed as standalone servers or in a Cisco UCS managed environment. When used in combination with Cisco UCS Manager, the C220 M5 brings the power and automation of unified computing to enterprise applications, including Cisco SingleConnect technology, drastically reducing switching and cabling requirements.
Cisco UCS Manager uses service profiles, templates, and policy-based management to enable rapid deployment and help ensure deployment consistency. If also enables end-to-end server visibility, management, and control in both virtualized and bare-metal environments
The Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) delivers comprehensive out-of-band server management with support for many industry standards, including:

• Redfish Version 1.01 (v1.01)
• Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) v2.0
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v2 and v3
• Syslog
• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
• Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP)
• HTML5 GUI
• HTML5 virtual Keyboard, Video, and Mouse (vKVM)
• Command-Line Interface (CLI)
• XML API

Management Software Development Kits (SDKs) and DevOps integrations exist for Python, Microsoft PowerShell, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and more. For more information about integrations, see Cisco DevNet.
The C220 M5 is Cisco Intersight ready. Cisco Intersight is a new cloud-based management platform that uses analytics to deliver proactive automation and support. By combining intelligence with automated actions, you can reduce costs dramatically and resolve issues more quickly.

The Cisco UCS C240 M5 Rack Server is a 2-socket, 2-Rack-Unit (2RU) rack server offering industry-leading performance and expandability. It supports a wide range of storage and I/O-intensive infrastructure workloads, from big data and analytics to collaboration. Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers can be deployed as standalone servers or as part of a Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) managed environment to take advantage of Cisco's standards-based unified computing innovations that help reduce customers' Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and increase their business agility. In response to ever-increasing computing and data-intensive real-time workloads, the enterprise-class Cisco UCS C240 M5 server extends the capabilities of the Cisco UCS portfolio in a 2RU form factor. It incorporates the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, supporting up to 20 percent more cores per socket, twice the memory capacity, and five times more. Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) PCI Express (PCIe) Solid-State Disks (SSDs) compared to the previous generation of servers. These improvements deliver significant performance and efficiency gains that will improve your application performance. The C240 M5 delivers outstanding levels of storage expandability with exceptional performance, with:

• The latest second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs, with up to 28 cores per socket
• Supports the first-generation Intel Xeon Scalable CPU, with up to 28 cores per socket
• Support for the Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory (128G, 256G, 512G)[1]
• 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 2 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 2 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

The Cisco UCS C240 M5 rack server is well-suited for a wide range of enterprise workloads, including:

• Big data and analytics
• Collaboration
• Small and medium-sized business databases
• Virtualization and consolidation
• Storage servers
• High-performance appliances

C240 M5 servers can be deployed as standalone servers or in a Cisco UCS managed environment. When used in combination with Cisco UCS Manager, the C240 M5 brings the power and automation of unified computing to enterprise applications, including Cisco® SingleConnect technology, drastically reducing switching and cabling requirements.
Cisco UCS Manager uses service profiles, templates, and policy-based management to enable rapid deployment and help ensure deployment consistency. If also enables end-to-end server visibility, management, and control in both virtualized and bare-metal environments.
The Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) delivers comprehensive out-of-band server management with support for many industry standards, including:

• Redfish Version 1.01 (v1.01)
• Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) v2.0
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v2 and v3
• Syslog
• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
• Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP)
• HTML5 GUI
• HTML5 virtual Keyboard, Video, and Mouse (vKVM)
• Command-Line Interface (CLI)
• XML API

Management Software Development Kits (SDKs) and DevOps integrations exist for Python, Microsoft PowerShell, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and more. For more information about integrations, see Cisco DevNet.
The C240 M5 is Cisco Intersight™ ready. Cisco Intersight is a new cloud-based management platform that uses analytics to deliver proactive automation and support. By combining intelligence with automated actions, you can reduce costs dramatically and resolve issues more quickly.