Jul 23, 2015

Cisco - UCS Mini - Architecture

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Cisco UCS Mini Solution Components
  • Cisco UCS Mini supports a wide variety of Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers. All supported servers can be mixed and matched to customize a Cisco UCS Mini solution for your specific needs and applications.
Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server
  • Delivering enterprise-class performance in a compact form factor, the Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server can quickly deploy stateless physical and virtual workloads. The server addresses a broad set of workloads, including IT and web infrastructure and distributed database, enterprise resource planning (ERP), and customer relationship management (CRM) applications. The Cisco UCS B200 M4 is built on the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v3 processor family, with up to 768 GB of memory, up to two hot-pluggable drives, and up to 80-Gbps total bandwidth. It offers exceptional levels of performance, flexibility, and I/O throughput to run the most demanding applications.
Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server
  • Delivering performance, versatility, and density without compromise, the Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server is designed for customers who do not need the features and performance of the latest Intel Xeon processors but who still need a versatile workhorse server. The Cisco UCS B200 M3 server harnesses the power of the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family, with up to 768 GB of RAM, two hot-pluggable hard drives, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity.
Cisco UCS B420 M3 Blade Server
  • Designed for enterprise performance and scalability, the Cisco UCS B420 M3 Blade Server combines the advantages of 4-socket computing with the cost-effective Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 and E5-4600 v2 product families for demanding virtualization and database workloads. It offers industry-leading computing density, I/O bandwidth, and memory footprint. The full-width Cisco UCS B420 M3 supports 1.5 terabytes (TB) of memory and takes full advantage Cisco UCS virtual interface card (VIC) technology for up to 160-Gbps aggregate I/O bandwidth.
Cisco UCS B22 M3 Blade Server
  • The Cisco UCS B22 M3 Blade Server delivers a balanced price-to-performance ratio feature set to address quick deployment of IT infrastructure and scale-out workloads. The Cisco UCS B22 M3 server takes advantage of the power of the Intel Xeon processor E5-2400 product family, with expandability to 384 GB of RAM, two hot-pluggable hard drives, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity.

Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis
  • The Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis for the Cisco UCS Mini can accommodate up to eight half-width or four full-width Cisco UCS blade servers. The 6-rack-unit (6RU) chassis can be mounted in an industry-standard 19-inch rack such as the Cisco® R Series Racks or be placed on any sturdy surface2. Dual-voltage AC (100 to 120V3 and 200 to 240V) power supplies make Cisco UCS Mini ready for global deployment.


Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect

  • The Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect extends the Cisco UCS architecture into environments that require smaller domains. Providing the same unified server and networking capabilities as the top-of-rack Cisco UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects, the Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect embeds the connectivity within the Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis to provide a smaller domain of up to 15 servers: 8 blade servers and up to 7 direct-connect rack servers. Figure 1 shows a Cisco UCS Mini solution with optional rack servers.








Cisco UCS Manager
  • Cisco UCS Manager provides unified, embedded management of all software and hardware components in a Cisco UCS Mini solution. It offers an intuitive GUI, a command-line interface (CLI), and a robust API to manage all system configuration and operations.
  • Starting with Cisco UCS Manager Release 3.0(2), a new HTML 5 user interface is available, eliminating the need for Java4 for console access.
  • Optional components include Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers and Cisco UCS Central Software for managing multiple instances of Cisco UCS Mini.

Storage Architectural Support




  • •FC switching mode only, no NPV mode for first release
  • •Both native FC/FCOE supported
  • •FCoEsupport both local attach and remote target (VF/VE)
    • –FC support both local attach and remote target (TF/TE)
    • –FCoEport-channel and FC san-port-channel supported
    • •VFC over ETH (uplink port/storage port only)
  • •VFC over VETH (blade vfcports)
  • •Uplink ports (1/1-4)can be fcoeuplink/fcoestorage/FC (switch mode)
  • •Scalability ports (1/5/1-4) can be fcoestorage only

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