Feature

Benefit

10-Gbps unified network

● 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 E54600 product family features, extending the network directly to virtual machines

●  Consistent and scalable operation model

●  Increased security and efficiency with reduced complexity

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

●  Capability to move virtual machines and their security features and policies from rack to rack or rack to blade or blade to blade

Feature

Benefit

Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 product family

●  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 is offered through Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX), which 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 increased processor frequency and improved security and availability features. With the increased

performance provided by the Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 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

●  Intel provides hardened protection for virtual and cloud environments. You can establish trusted pools of virtual resources with Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT). Intel TXT helps ensure 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

High-capacity, flexible

● Up to 16 front-accessible, hot-swappable, SFF SAS, SATA, or SSD drives for local storage, providing

internal storage

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

RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60 support

A choice of RAID controllers to provide data protection for up to 16 SAS, SATA, or SSD drives in PCIe and mezzanine card form factors

Cisco UCS C-Series

● Web user interface for server management; remote keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM); virtual media; and

Integrated Management

Controller (IMC)

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

Fast-memory support

48 DIMM slots supporting up to 1600 MHz of memory for optimal performance

Redundant fans and

● Dual-redundant fans and power supplies for enterprise-class reliability and uptime

power supplies

● Power efficiency through Cisco Common Form-Factor Platinum Power Supplies (1200 watts [W])

7 PCIe 3.0 slots

●  Flexibility, increased performance, and compatibility with industry standards

●  PCIe 3.0 slots, which are estimated to substantially increase the bandwidth over the previous generation of PCIe and offer more flexibility while maintaining compatibility with PCIe 2.0

●  2 full-height, half-length, x16 horizontal slots on riser cards

●  5 half-height, half-length, x8 slots on the motherboard

For more information, refer to the Cisco UCS C420 M3 Rack Server specifications sheet:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10493/products_data_sheets_list.html

Integrated quad-port

● Outstanding network I/O performance and increased network efficiency and flexibility

Gigabit Ethernet

● Increased network availability when configured in failover configurations

Trusted Platform Module

(TPM)

●  TPM is a chip (microcontroller) that can securely store artifacts used to authenticate the platform (server)

●  These artifacts can include passwords, certificates, and encryption keys

●  TPM can also be used to store platform measurements that help ensure that the platform remains trustworthy, helping ensure authentication and authorization

Tool-free access

Enhanced serviceability through tool-free access to all serviceable items, and color-coded indicators to guide

users to hot-pluggable and serviceable items

Cisco Flexible Flash

(FlexFlash)

●             The server supports 1 internal Cisco FlexFlash drive (secure digital [SD] card)

●             The 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, and a blank virtual drive on which you can install an

OS or a hypervisor

Item

Specification

Processors

●  2 or 4 Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 series processors

●  Processor choices listed in the Cisco UCS C420 M3 Rack Server specifications sheet: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10493/products_data_sheets_list.html

Memory

48 slots for registered DIMMs (RDIMM) and load-reduced DIMMs (LRDDIMMs)

Chipset

Intel Patsburg-A platform controller hub (PCH) chipset

PCIe expansion slots

7 PCIe expansion slots:

●  2 full-height, half-length, x16 horizontal slots on riser cards

●  5 half-height, half-length, x8 slots on the motherboard

For more information, refer to the Cisco UCS C420 M3 Rack Server specifications sheet: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10493/products_data_sheets_list.html

RAID cards

Plug-in PCIe cards:

●  LSI MegaRAID 9271CV-8i with supercap for on-board 1-GB flash-backed write cache backup, supporting up to 16 internal drives and RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60

●  LSI MegaRAID 9286CV-8e with supercap for on-board 1-GB flash-backed write cache backup, supporting up to 8 external drives and RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60

Internal storage devices

Disk drives

●  Drives are installed in configurable (1 or 2) drive bay modules that provide hot-pluggable front-panel access

●  Each drive bay module can hold up to eight 2.5 x 0.55 in. (63.5 x 14 mm) SAS or SATA hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid state drives (SSDs), for a total of 16 drives

USB flash drive

●  An optional 4- or 8-GB USB drive is available

●  A 16-GB SD drive is available

Hard drives

Up to 16 front-accessible, hot-swappable, 2.5-inch SAS, SATA, or SSD drives

Hard disk options

2.5-inch SAS, SATA, or SSD drive options; drive choices are listed in the Cisco UCS C420 M3 Rack Server specifications sheet: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10493/products_data_sheets_list.html

Cisco FlexFlash

The server supports 1 internal 16-GB Cisco FlexFlash drive (SD card). The SD card is preloaded with 4 virtual

drives. The 4 virtual drives contain, respectively, 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

Internal USB

The server supports 1 internal USB flash drive

Cisco UCS C-Series IMC

● Integrated Emulex Pilot-3 Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)

●  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

●  KVM

Front-panel connector

1 KVM console connector (supplies 2 USB, 1 VGA, and 1 serial connector)

Front-panel locator LED

Indicator to help direct administrators to specific servers in large data center environments

Additional rear connectors

Additional interfaces including a VGA video port, 3 USB 2.0 ports, 1 Gigabit Ethernet dedicated management port, quad 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports, and an RS-232 serial connector (on an I/O riser card) serial port

Physical dimensions

2RU: 3.4 x 18.9 x 31.5 in. (8.9 x 48.1 x 80 cm)

(H x W x D)

Temperature: Operating

32 to 95°F (0 to 35°C) (at sea level; no fan fail and no CPU throttling)

Temperature: Nonoperating

-40 to 158°F (-40 to 70°C)

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 33.8°F per 984.252 ft (1°C per 300m)

Altitude: Nonoperating

40,000 ft (12,000m)

Safety

●             UL 60950-1 No. 21CFR1040 Second Edition

●             CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950-1 Second Edition

●             IEC 60950-1 Second Edition ● EN 60950-1 Second Edition

●             IEC 60950-1 Second Edition

●             AS/NZS 60950-1

●             GB4943 2001

EMC: Emissions

●  47CFR Part 15 (CFR 47) Class A

●  AS/NZS CISPR22 Class A

●  CISPR2 2 Class A

●  EN55022 Class A

●  ICES003 Class A

●  VCCI Class A

●  EN61000-3-2

●  EN61000-3-3

●  KN22 Class A

●  CNS13438 Class A

EMC: Immunity

● EN55024

●  CISPR24

●  EN300386

●  KN24