Cisco UCS S3260 M5, Design Manual

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Technology Overview
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Cisco UCS S3260 M5 Storage Server
The Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server is a modular, high-density, high availability, dual-node rack server, well
suited for service providers, enterprises, and industry-specific environments. It addresses the need for dense
cost effective storage for the ever-growing data needs. Designed for a new class of cloud-scale applications, it is
simple to deploy and excellent for big data applications, software-defined storage environments, and other
unstructured data repositories, media streaming, and content distribution.
Extending the capability of the Cisco UCS C3000 portfolio, the Cisco UCS S3260 helps you achieve the highest
levels of data availability. With dual-node capability that is based on the Intel Xeon scalable processors, it features
up to 600 TB of local storage in a compact 4-rack-unit (4RU) form factor. All hard-disk drives can be
asymmetrically split between the dual-nodes and are individually hot-swappable. The drives can be built-in in an
enterprise-class Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) redundancy or be in a pass-through mode.
This high-density rack server comfortably fits in a standard 32-inch depth rack, such as the Cisco R42610 Rack-
Server.
The Cisco UCS S3260 is deployed as a standalone server in both bare-metal or virtualized environments. Its
modular architecture reduces TCO by allowing you to upgrade individual components over time and as use cases
evolve, without having to replace the entire system.
The Cisco UCS S3260 uses a modular server architecture that, using Cisco’s blade technology expertise, allows
you to upgrade the computing or network nodes in the system without the need to migrate data migration from
one system to another. It delivers the following:
 Dual server nodes
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Up to 44 computing cores per server node
 Up to 60 drives mixing a large form factor (LFF) with up to 28 solid-state disk (SSD) drives plus 2 SSD
SATA boot drives per server node
 Up to 1.5 TB of memory per server node (3 TB Total ) with 128GB DIMMs
 Support for 12-Gbps serial-attached SCSI (SAS) drives
 A system I/O Controller either with HBA Passthrough or RAID controller, with DUAL LSI 3316 Chip
 Cisco VIC 1300 Series Embedded Chip supporting Dual-port 40Gbps