Cisco UCS C240 M3
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1. Afafe CISCO Data Sheet Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server Product Overview The form factor agnostic Cisco Unified Computing System Cisco UCS combines Cisco UCS C Series Rack Servers and B Series Blade Servers with networking and storage access in a single converged system that simplifies management and delivers greater cost efficiency and agility with increased visibility and control The latest expansion of the Cisco UCS portfolio includes the new Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server two rack units 2RU and Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server 1RU and the Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server These three new servers increase compute density through more cores and cache balanced with more memory capacity and disk drives and faster I O Together these server improvements and complementary Cisco UCS advancements deliver the combination of features and cost efficiency required to support IT s diverse server needs The Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server Figure 1 is designed for both performance and expandability over a wide range of storage intensive infrastructure workloads from big data to collaboration Building on the success of the Cisco UCS C210 M2 Rack Server the enterprise class Cisco UCS C240 M3 server further extends the capabilities of the Cisco UCS portfolio in a 2RU form factor with the addition of the Intel Xeon processor E5 2600 and E5 2600 v2 product families which deliver an outstanding combination of performance flexibility and efficiency2. performance provided by the Intel Xeon processor E5 2600 and E5 2600 v2 product families Cisco UCS C Series servers offer an improved price to performance ratio making Cisco UCS servers among the best values in the industry Advanced reliability features including Machine Check Architecture Recovery automatically monitor report and recover from hardware errors to maintain data integrity and keep mission critical services online Hardened protection for virtual and cloud Environments Establish trusted pools of virtual resources with Intel Trusted Execution Technology Intel TXT Intel TXT ensures that physical servers and hypervisors boot only into cryptographically verified known good states It safeguards your business more effectively by protecting your platform from the insertion of malware during or prior to launch Up to 12 LFF or 16 24 SFF front accessible hot swappable SAS SATA or SSD drives for local storage providing redundancy options and ease of serviceability Balanced performance and capacity to meet application needs SATA SSDs 15 000 RPM SAS drives for highest performance 10 000 RPM SAS drives for high performance and value 7200 RPM SATA drives for high capacity and value A choice of RAID controllers to provide data protection for up to 12 or 24 SAS SATA or SSD drives in PCle and mezzanine card form factors Web user interface for server management remote keyboard video and mouse KVM virtua
3. gains The Cisco UCS C240 M3 offers up to two Intel Xeon processor E5 2600 or E5 2600 v2 processors 24 DIMM slots 24 disk drives and four 1 Gigabit Ethernet LAN on motherboard LOM ports to provide exceptional levels of internal memory and storage expandability and exceptional performance The Cisco UCS C240 M3 interfaces with Cisco UCS using another Cisco innovation the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card The Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card is a virtualization optimized Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE PCI Express PCle 2 0 x8 10 Gbps adapter designed for use with Cisco UCS C Series Rack Servers The VIC is a dual port 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCle adapter that can support up to 256 PCle standards compliant virtual interfaces which can be dynamically configured so that both their interface type network interface card NIC or host bus adapter HBA and identity MAC address and worldwide name WWN are established using just in time provisioning In addition the Cisco UCS VIC 1225 can support network interface virtualization and Cisco Data Center Virtual Machine Fabric Extender VM FEX technology Figure 1 Cisco UCS C240 M3 Server Applications Not all storage intensive workloads are alike and the Cisco UCS C240 M3 server s disk configuration delivers balanced performance and expandability to best meet individual workload requirements With up to 12 LFF Large Form Factor or 24 SFF Small Form Factor internal drives the Cisco
4. Computing System System Management Cisco UCS 6200 Series Sitk Graphical User Interface 160 Gbps 80 Gbps per Chassis per Chassis Cisco UCS C Series Rack Servers 2013 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Page 2 of 7 Cisco innovations such as Cisco UCS Manager allows administrators to create a software definition for a desired server using Cisco service profiles and templates and then instantiate that server and its I O connectivity by associating a service profile with physical resources This approach contrasts with the traditional method of configuring each system resource manually one at a time through individual element managers Unlike with the products of other vendors Cisco service profiles can be moved from rack server to rack or blade server or between blade or rack servers in different chassis In other words Cisco UCS Manager and service profiles are form factor agnostic Other Cisco UCS building blocks include enhanced server I O options and expanded Cisco UCS fabric interconnects that extend scalability and management simplicity for both blade and rack systems across bare metal virtualized and cloud computing environments Cisco helps ensure that nearly all parts of Cisco UCS offer investment protection and are backward compatible For example fabric extenders can be upgraded using the same fabric interconnects and same Cisco UCS VIC 1225 F
5. TPM can also be used to store platform measurements that help ensure that the platform remains trustworthy helping ensure authentication and authorization Enhanced serviceability through tool free access to all serviceable items and color coded indicators to guide users to hot pluggable and serviceable items Page 4 of 7 COU Cisco Flexible Flash FlexFlash GPU Virtualization Support The server supports up to two internal Cisco FlexFlash drives secure digital SD cards e The first SD card is preloaded with 4 virtual drives which contain the Cisco Server Configuration Utility the Cisco Host Upgrade Utility the Cisco C Series server drivers set and a blank virtual drive on which you can install an OS or a hypervisor The second SD card is blank and can be used to mirror the first SD card Offload graphics and compute processing from the C240 M3 server CPU to the NVIDIA Kepler enabled GPU and accelerate applications in physical and virtualized environments For details refer to NVIDIA Grid K1 and K2 datasheet Product Specifications Table 2 lists the specifications for the Cisco UCS C240 M3 server Table 2 Product Specifications Processors Memory PCle slots RAID card Hard drives Hard disk options Cisco Flexible Flash FlexFlash Internal USB Internal USB Cisco UCS Integrated Management Controller Front panel connector Front panel locator LED Additional rear connectors Physical d
6. UCS C240 M3 optionally offers 10 000 RPM and 15 000 RPM SAS drives to deliver a high number of I O operations per second for transactional workloads 2013 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Page 1 of 7 such as database management systems In addition high capacity SATA drives provide an economical large capacity solution Superfast SSDs are a third option for workloads that demand extremely fast access to smaller amounts of data A choice of RAID controller options also helps increase disk performance and reliability The Cisco UCS C240 M3 further increases performance and customer choice over many types of storage intensive applications such as e Collaboration e Small and medium sized business SMB databases e Big data infrastructure e Virtualization and consolidation e Storage servers e High performance appliances Cisco UCS Servers Change the Economics of the Data Center IT infrastructure matters now more than ever as organizations seek to achieve the full potential of infrastructure as a service laaS bare metal virtualized servers and cloud computing Cisco continues to lead in data center innovation with the introduction of new building blocks for Cisco Unified Computing System that extend its exceptional simplicity agility and efficiency Figure 2 Innovations such as the Cisco UCS C240 M3 rack server Figure 2 Cisco UCS Components Cisco Unified
7. abric interconnect hardware can be upgraded independently of fabric extenders and blade chassis Cisco continues to innovate in all these areas helping ensure that both now and in the future more powerful rack servers with larger faster memory have adequate I O bandwidth and computing power Cisco completes this vision through continuous innovation in VIC ASIC fabric extender fabric interconnect blade server blade chassis rack server technologies and form factor agnostic Cisco UCS Manager software that ties all these ever advancing hardware pieces together The Cisco UCS C240 M3 is also part of a large family of rack servers the Cisco C Series Rack Servers Designed to operate both in standalone environments and as part of Cisco UCS the Cisco UCS C Series servers employ Cisco technology to help customers handle the most challenging workloads The Cisco UCS C Series complements a standards based unified network fabric Cisco Data Center VM FEX virtualization support Cisco UCS Manager Software Cisco fabric extender and fabric interconnect architectures and Cisco Extended Memory Technology Again Cisco is innovating across all these technologies With Cisco UCS architectural advantages software advances continuous innovation and unique blade server and chassis designs Cisco UCS is the first truly unified data center platform In addition Cisco UCS can transform IT departments through policy based automation and deep integration with familiar
8. ant fans and power supplies 5 PCle 3 0 slots Integrated quad port Gigabit Ethernet Trusted Platform Module TPM Tool free access Entire solution managed as a single entity with Cisco UCS Manager improving operation efficiency and flexibility Service profiles and templates that implement role and policy based management enabling more effective use of skilled server network and storage administrators Automated provisioning and increased business agility allowing data center managers to provision applications in minutes rather than days Capability to move virtual machines and their security features and policies from rack to rack or rack to blade or blade to blade Automated energy efficiency reduces energy costs by automatically putting the processor and memory in the lowest available power state while still delivering the performance required and flexible virtualization technology that optimizes performance for virtualized environments including processor support for migration and direct I O Up to twice the performance for floating point operations Intel Advanced Vector Extensions AVX provides new instructions that can significantly improve performance for applications that rely on floating point or vector computations Cisco C Series servers keep pace with Intel Xeon processor innovation by offering the latest processors with an increase in processor frequency and improved security and availability features With the increased
9. ication Deseo Safety e UL 60950 1 No 21CFR1040 Second Edition e CAN CSA C22 2 No 60950 1 Second Edition e IEC 60950 1 Second Edition e EN 60950 1 Second Edition e IEC 60950 1 Second Edition AS NZS 60950 1 GB4943 2001 EMC Emissions 47CFR Part 15 CFR 47 Class A e AS NZS CISPR22 Class A e CISPR2 2 Class A e EN55022 Class A ICES003 Class A VCCI Class A EN61000 3 2 EN61000 3 3 KN22 Class A e CNS13438 Class A EMC Immunity EN55024 e CISPR24 EN300386 KN24 Ordering Information For a complete list of options please refer to the corresponding SFF SpecSheet or LFF SpecSheet Cisco Unified Computing Services Using a unified view of data center resources Cisco and our industry leading partners deliver services that accelerate your transition to a Cisco UCS C Series Rack Server solution Cisco Unified Computing Services helps you quickly deploy the servers optimize ongoing operations to better meet your business needs and migrate to Cisco s unified computing architecture For more information visit http www cisco com go unifiedcomputingservices For More Information Please visit http www cisco com go unifiedcomputing 2013 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Page 6 of 7 IE CISCO Europe Headquarters Americas Headquarters Asia Pacific Headquarters Cisco Systems Inc Cisco Systems USA Pte Ltd Cisco Systems International BV Amsterda
10. imensions HxWxD Temperature Operating Temperature Nonoperating 2013 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information e 1 or 2 Intel Xeon processor E5 2600 or E5 2600 v2 product families For a complete list of processor options please refer to the corresponding SFF SpecSheet or LFF SpecSheet e 24 DIMM slots Support for DDR3 registered DIMMs Support for DDR3 low voltage DIMMs Advanced error correcting code ECC e Mirroring option 5 PCle generation 3 slots 2 PCle Generation 3 x16 slots both full height 3 4 length 10 5 in 2 PCle Generation 3 x8 slots one full height 1 2 length and one full height 3 4 length e 1 PCle Generation 3 x8 slots 1 2 height and 1 2 length For a complete list of RAID options please refer to the corresponding SFF SpecSheet or LFF SpecSheet Up to 24 front accessible hot swappable 2 5 inch SAS SATA or SSD or up to 12 front accessible hot swappable 3 5 inch SAS SATA drives 2 5 inch SFF drive options e For a complete list of drive options please refer to the corresponding SFF SpecSheet 3 5 inch LFF drive options e For a complete list of drive options please refer to the corresponding LFF SpecSheet The server supports up to two internal 16GB Cisco FlexFlash drives SD cards One SD card is preloaded with four virtual drives The four virtual drives contain respectively the Cisco Server Configuration Uti
11. l media and administration Virtual media support for remote CD and DVD drives as if local Intelligent Platform Management Interface IPMI 2 0 support for out of band management through third party enterprise management systems Command line interface CLI for server management 24 DIMM slots supporting up to 1866 MHz of memory for optimal performance 2013 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Dual redundant fans and power supplies for enterprise class reliability and uptime Power efficiency through Cisco Common Form Factor Platinum Power Supplies 650W or 1200W or 930W DC Flexibility increased performance and compatibility with industry standards PCle 3 0 slots which are estimated to substantially increase the bandwidth over the previous generation and offer more flexibility while maintaining compatibility with PCle 2 0 2 PCle generation 3 x16 slots both full height and three quarters length 10 5 in 3 PCle generation 3 x8 slots 1 full height and three quarters length 1 full height and half length and 1 half height and half length Outstanding network I O performance and increased network efficiency and flexibility Increased network availability when configured in failover configurations TPM is a chip microcontroller that can securely store artifacts used to authenticate the platform server These artifacts can include passwords certificates or encryption keys
12. lity the Cisco Host Upgrade Utility the Cisco C Series server drivers set and a blank virtual drive on which you can install an OS or a hypervisor The second SD card is blank and can be used to mirror the first SD card The server supports one internal USB flash drive e Integrated Emulex Pilot 3 Baseboard Management Controller BMC e IPMI 2 0 compliant for management and control One 10 100 1000 Ethernet out of band management interface CLI and WebGUI management tool for automated lights out management e KVM One KVM console connector supplies 2 USB 1 VGA and 1 serial connector Indicator to help direct administrators to specific servers in large data center environments Additional interfaces including a VGA video port 2 USB 2 0 ports 1 Gigabit Ethernet dedicated management port quad 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports and an RJ 45 serial port 2RU 3 4 x 17 5 x 28 0 in 8 7 x 44 5 x 71 2 cm 41 to 104 F 5 to 40 C derate the maximum temperature by 1 C per every 305 m of altitude above sea level 40 to 158 F 40 to 70 C Page 5 of 7 Humidity Operating 10 to 90 noncondensing Humidity Nonoperating 5 to 93 noncondensing Altitude Operating 0 to 10 000 ft 0 to 3000m maximum ambient temperature decreases by 1 C per 300m Altitude Nonoperating 40 000 ft 12 000m Regulatory Standards Table 3 lists regulatory standards compliance information Table 3 Regulatory Standards Compliance Safety and EMC spec
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14. systems management and orchestration tools Features and Benefits The Cisco UCS C240 M3 is one of the first rack servers available anywhere with a built in entry point to unified computing Table 1 summarizes the features and benefits of the Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server Table 1 Features and Benefits el 10 Gbps unified network e Low latency lossless 10 Gbps Ethernet and industry standard FCoE and native Fibre Channel fabric fabric Wire once deployment model in which changing I O configurations no longer means installing adapters and recabling racks and switches Fewer interface cards cables and upstream network ports to purchase power configure and maintain Virtualization optimization Cisco Data Center VM FEX and Adapter FEX technologies I O virtualization and Intel Xeon processor E5 2600 and E5 2600 v2 product family features extending the network directly to virtual machines e Consistent and scalable operational model e Increased security and efficiency with reduced complexity 2013 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Page 3 of 7 ee a Unified management when integrated into Cisco Unified Computing System Intel Xeon processor E5 2600 and E5 2600 v2 product families High capacity flexible internal storage RAID 0 1 5 6 10 50 and 60 support Cisco UCS C Series Integrated Management Controller CIMC Fast memory support Redund
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