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1. ot ftet te cisco Data Sheet Cisco UCS C24 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 C24 M3 Rack Server This new server increases compute density through more cores and cache balanced with adequate memory capacity abundant internal 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 C24 M3 Rack Server Figure 1 is designed for both outstanding economics and internal expandability The Cisco C24 M3 Rack Server targets entry level virtualization IT and web infrastructure as well as storage intensive infrastructure workloads from big data and small to medium databases to file serving and windows storage servers Building on the success of the Cisco UCS C Series Rack Servers the Cisco UCS C24 M3 server and the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1225 VIC 1225 extend the capabilities of the Cisco UCS portfolio in a 2RU form factor with the Intel Xeon processor E5 2400 product family which delivers a2. and industry standard FCoE and native Fibre Channel 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 Cisco Data Center VM FEX and Adapter FEX technologies I O virtualization and Intel Xeon processor E5 2400 product family features extending the network directly to virtual machines Consistent and scalable operational model Increased security and efficiency with reduced complexity Virtualization optimization Unified management when Entire solution managed as a single entity with Cisco UCS Manager improving operation efficiency and integrated into Cisco UCS 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 by associating a service profile with a new added or repurposed Cisco UCS C24 M8 server Capability to move virtual machines and their security features and policies from rack to rack or rack to blade or blade to blade Only Cisco UCS C Series servers offer a built in entry point into unified computing Intel Xeon processor E5 2400 Automated energy efficiency reduces energy costs by a
3. enterprise class reliability and uptime supplies Power efficiency through Cisco common form factor platinum power supplies 450 and 650W 5 PCle Generation 3 0 slots Flexibility increased performance and compatibility with industry standards e PCle Generation 3 0 slots which are estimated to substantially increase the bandwidth compared to the previous generation and offer more flexibility while maintaining compatibility with PCle 2 0 Integrated dual port Gigabit e Outstanding network I O performance and increased network efficiency and flexibility Ethernet Increased network availability when configured in failover configurations Product Specifications Table 2 lists the specifications for the Cisco UCS C24 M3 server Table 2 Product Specifications Processors 1 or 2 Intel Xeon processor E5 2400 product family CPUs e For a complete list of processor options please refer to the corresponding SpecSheet Memory 12 DIMM slots Support for DDR3 registered DIMMs Support for DDR3 low voltage DIMMs e Advanced error correcting code ECC e Mirroring option PCle slots e Riser 1 One x16 PCle Gen 3 slot x16 extended connector Cisco CNIC half length full height with NCSI1 and Cisco CNIC2 support The Cisco 1225 virtual interface card requires an NCSI slot One x4 PCle Gen 3 slot x8 connector half length full height no NCSI support e Riser 2 One x8 PCle Gen 3 slot x16 connector half length half
4. height One x8 PCle Gen 3 slot x8 connector half length half height One x8 PCle Gen 3 slot x8 connector half length half height RAID e For a complete list of RAID options please refer to the corresponding SFF SpecSheet or LEF SpecSheet Hard drives e Up to 16 or 24 front accessible hot swappable 2 5 inch SFF Small Form Factor SAS or SATA drives e Up to 12 front accessible hot swappable 3 5 inch LFF Large Form Factor SAS or SATA drives Hard disk options 2 5 inch SFF drive options e For a complete list of drive options please refer to the corresponding SpecSheet 3 5 inch LFF drive options e For a complete list of drive options please refer to the corresponding SpecSheet 2013 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Page 5 of 7 Cisco UCS Integrated Integrated Emulex Pilot 3 Baseboard Management Controller BMC Management Controller e PMI 2 0 compliant for management and control One 10 100 1000 Ethernet out of band management interface or 1 Gigabit Ethernet LOM or Cisco VIC 1225 access e CLI and WebGUI management tool for automated lights out management e KVM vMedia Front panel connector Two USB 2 0 ports Front panel locator LED Indicator to help direct administrators to specific servers in large data center environments a front panel controller provides status indications LEDs and control buttons Asset tag serial number Power butto
5. ced performance and expandability to best meet individual workload requirements With up to 12 16 or 24 internal drives the Cisco UCS C24 M3 optionally offers 10 000 and 15 000 RPM SAS drives to deliver a high number of I O operations per second IOPS for transactional workloads such as database management systems In addition high capacity SATA drives provide an economical large capacity solution The Cisco UCS C24 M3 further increases performance and customer choice over many types of storage intensive applications such as e IT and Web Infrastructure e Big data e Consolidation e Storage server e Entry level virtualization e Small to Medium databases e File Server e Storage intensive infrastructure Cisco UCS Servers Change the Economics of the Data Center Cisco continues to lead in data center innovation with infrastructure as a service laaS bare metal virtualized servers and cloud computing with the introduction of new building blocks such as the C24 M3 server for Cisco UCS that extend the system s exceptional simplicity agility and efficiency Figure 2 The C24 M3 server also continues Cisco s commitment to delivering uniquely differentiated value fabric integration and ease of management that is exceptional in the marketplace 2013 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Page 2 of 7 Figure 2 Cisco UCS Components Cisco Unified Computin
6. g System System Management Applications EER Cisco UCS 6200 Series Graphical User Interface Command Line Interface Cisco UCS B Series Blade Servers Cisco UCS C Series Rack Servers E For example Cisco innovations such as the form factor agnostic Cisco UCS Manager software allows administrators to create a software model of a desired server using Cisco service profiles and templates and then instantiate that server and its I O connectivity by associating a model with physical resources This stateless approach contrasts with the traditional method of configuring each system resource manually one at a time through individual element managers Unlike vendors of traditional systems Cisco uses a unified management model with service profiles that can be moved easily between any Cisco UCS servers whether blade server or rack server in a Cisco UCS Manager domain Other Cisco UCS building blocks include enhanced server I O options and expanded Cisco UCS fabric interconnects that extend scalability investment protection and management simplicity for both rack and blade systems Here are a few examples of investment protection e Fabric extenders can be upgraded using the same fabric interconnects and the same Cisco UCS VIC 1225 e Fabric interconnect hardware can be upgraded independently of fabric extenders and rack servers 2013 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This d
7. n optimal combination of performance flexibility and efficiency gains In addition the Cisco UCS C24 M3 offers up to 12 DIMM slots up to 12 16 or 24 disk drives 5 PCI express PCle slots and two 1 Gigabit Ethernet LAN on motherboard LOM ports to provide an exceptional internal storage capacity and price to performance ratio The Cisco UCS C24 M3 server interfaces with Cisco UCS using another Cisco innovation the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1225 The Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1225 is a virtualization optimized Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE PCle 2 0 x8 10 Gbps adapter designed for use with Cisco UCS C Series Rack Servers The Virtual Interface Card 1225 is a dual port 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCle adapter that can support up to 18 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 C24 M3 Server 2013 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Page 1 of 7 Applications Not all storage intensive workloads are alike and the Cisco UCS C24 M3 server s disk configuration delivers balan
8. n power status e Identification System status e Fan status Temperature status Power supply status e Network link activity Additional rear connectors Additional interfaces including a VGA video port DB 15 4 USB 2 0 ports 1 Gigabit Ethernet dedicated management port dual 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports a serial port DB 9 Physical dimensions 2RU 3 45 x 16 93 x 26 0 in 8 76 x 43 0 x 66 05 cm H x W x D Temperature Operating 41 to 104F 5 to 40 derate the maximum tempera ture by 1 per every 305m of altitude above sea level Temperature Nonoperating 40 to 149F 40 to 65T 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 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 speciation Descrnton 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 IEC 60950 1 Second Edition AS NZS 60950 1 GB4943 2001 EMC Emissions e 47CFR Part 15 CFR 47 Class A e AS NZS CISPR22 Class A e CISPR2 2 Class A e EN55022 Class A e ICES003 Class A e VCCI Class A EN61000 3 2 e EN61000 3 3 e KN22 Class A e CNS13438 Class A 2013 Cisco and o
9. ocument is Cisco Public Information Page 3 of 7 In addition Cisco continues to innovate in nearly all hardware and software components of Cisco UCS helping ensure that more powerful rack servers have adequate I O bandwidth management scalability and investment protection both now and in the future The Cisco UCS C24 M3 is also part of a larger family of rack servers the Cisco UCS C Series Rack Servers Designed to operate both in standalone environments and as part of Cisco UCS all Cisco UCS C Series servers complement and extend Cisco innovation investment protection and simplicity Cisco UCS C Series servers provide innovations such as 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 With Cisco UCS C Series innovations Cisco UCS architectural advantages software advances continuous innovation and unique rack and blade server 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 systems management and orchestration tools Features and Benefits Table 1 summarizes the features and benefits of the Cisco UCS C24 M3 Rack Server Table 1 Features and Benefits Be A S 10 Gbps unified network fabric Low latency lossless 10 Gbps Ethernet
10. r its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Page 6 of 7 EMC Immunity EN55024 e CISPR24 EN300386 KN24 Ordering Information For a complete list of part numbers 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 ajiaji Americas Headquarters Asia Pacific Headquarters Europe Headquarters Cisco Systems Inc Cisco Systems USA Pte Ltd Cisco Systems International BV Amsterdam San Jose CA Singapore The Netherlands Cisco has more than 200 offices worldwide Addresses phone numbers and fax numbers are listed on the Cisco Website at www cisco com go offices amp Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco and or its affiliates in the U S and other countries To view a list of Cisco trademarks go to this URL www cisco com go trademarks Third party trademarks mentioned are the proper
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12. uards your business more effectively by protecting your platform from the insertion of malware during or prior to launch 2013 Cisco and or its affiliates All rights reserved This document is Cisco Public Information Page 4 of 7 Ese ee High capacity flexible internal Up to 12 LFF 16 SFF or 24 SFF front accessible hot swappable SFF SAS or SATA drives for local storage storage providing redundancy options and ease of serviceability Balanced performance and capacity to meet application needs e 15 000 RPM SAS drives for highest performance e 10 000 RPM SAS drives for high performance and value e 7200 RPM SATA drives for high capacity and value RAID 0 1 5 6 10 50 and 60 A choice of RAID controllers to provide data protection for up to 12 LFF 16 SFF or 24 SFF SAS or SATA support drives in PCle Cisco UCS C Series Integrated Web user interface for server management remote keyboard video and mouse KVM virtual media and Management Controller CIMC administration e Virtual media support for remote CD and DVD drives as if local e Intelligent Platform Management Interface IPMI 2 0 support for out of band management through third party enterprise management systems e Command line interface CLI for server management Fast memory support 12 DIMM slots supporting up to 1333 or 1600 MHz of memory for optimal performance Redundant fans and power Dual redundant and hot swap fans and power supplies for
13. utomatically putting the processor and memory in the product family 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 is provided 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 UCS 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 performance provided by the Intel Xeon processor E5 2400 product family 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 helps ensure that physical servers and hypervisors boot only into cryptographically verified known good states It safeg
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