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Figure 2.
Cisco UCS B460 M4 Blade Server
Greater Performance and Architectural Advantages
The Cisco UCS B460 M4 harnesses the power of four Intel
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Xeon
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processor E7-4800 v2 and E7-8800 v2 product
families and accelerates access to critical data. This blade server supports up to 60 processor cores, 6.0 TB of
memory (using 64-GB DIMMs), 4.8 TB of internal storage, and 320 Gbps of overall Ethernet throughput.
In addition, the fabric-centric, architectural advantage of Cisco UCS means that you do not need to purchase,
maintain, power, cool, and license excess switches and interface cards in each Cisco UCS blade chassis, enabling
Cisco to design uncompromised expandability and versatility in its blade servers. As a result, with their leading
CPU core count, frequencies, memory slots, expandability, and drive capacities, the Cisco UCS B-Series Blade
Servers offer uncompromised expandability, versatility, and performance.
The Cisco UCS B460 M4 provides:
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Four Intel
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Xeon
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processor E7-4800 v2 and E7-8800 v2 product families
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96 DDR3 memory DIMM slots
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Four hot-pluggable drive bays for Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) or Solid State Disks (SSDs)
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SAS controller on board with RAID 0 and 1 support
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Two modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) slots for Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC)
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Six PCIe mezzanine slots, with two dedicated for optional Cisco UCS VIC 1240, and four slots for Cisco
UCS VIC 1280, VIC port expander, third-party network adapter or flash cards
Cisco UCS VIC 1240 and 1280 Technology
The Cisco UCS VIC 1240 is a 4-port 10-Gbps Ethernet or Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)-capable mLOM
designed exclusively for the M3 and M4 generations of the Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers. When used in
combination with an optional port expander, the Cisco UCS VIC 1240 can be expanded to up to eight 10-Gbps
ports.
The Cisco UCS VIC 1280 is an 8-port 10-Gbps Ethernet or FCoE adapter that further expands Cisco UCS B460
M4 Blade Server bandwidth to 320 Gbps. The Cisco UCS VIC 1240 and 1280 enable a policy-based, stateless,
agile server infrastructure that can present up to 256 PCI Express (PCIe) standards-compliant interfaces to the
host, which can be dynamically configured as either network interface cards (NICs) or host bus adapters (HBAs). In
addition, the Cisco UCS VIC 1240 and 1280 support Cisco
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Data Center Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-
FEX) technology, which extends the Cisco UCS fabric interconnect ports to virtual machines, simplifying server
virtualization deployment.
