half-width Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers and can accommodate both half- and full-width blade form
factors.
Up to four hot-swappable AC, DC or HVDC power supplies are accessible from the front of the chassis. These
power supplies can be configured to support nonredundant, N+1 redundant, and grid-redundant configurations.
The rear of the chassis contains eight hot-swappable fans, four power connectors (one per power supply), and
two I/O bays for I/O modules. A passive backplane provides support for up to 80 Gbps of I/O bandwidth to
each half-width blade and 160 Gbps of I/O bandwidth to each full width-blade.
Scalability is dependent on both hardware and software. For more information, see
Series FEX Upgrade Considerations, on page 77
and the appropriate
.
LEDs
LEDs on the chassis indicate system connectivity and failure warnings. See
LED Locations, on page 35
for
details. There is also a flashing blue Beaconing LED and button that can be triggered manually or remotely
from UCS Manager.
Buttons
The beaconing function LED is also a feature on/off button. When triggered, beaconing of the server chassis
is observable remotely from UCS Manager.
Connectors
There are no user connectors such as RJ-45 ports on the chassis itself.
Midplane
The integral chassis midplane supports the following:
•
320 G total bandwidth to each of two I/O Modules
•
Auto-discover of all components
•
Redundant data and management paths
•
10 G Base-KR
The midplane is an entirely passive device.
Blade Servers
The Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers are based on industry-standard server technologies and provide the
following:
•
Up to two or four Intel multi-core processors, depending on the server
•
Front-accessible, hot-swappable hard drives or solid-state disk (SSD) drives
•
Depending on the server, support is available for up to three adapter card connections for up to 160 Gbps
of redundant I/O throughput
Cisco UCS 5108 Server Chassis Installation Guide
5
Overview
Blade Servers
