Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server
BASE SERVER STANDARD CAPABILITIES and FEATURES
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BASE SERVER STANDARD CAPABILITIES and FEATURES
Table 1
lists the capabilities and features of the base server. Details about how to configure the server for
a particular feature or capability (for example, number of processors, disk drives, or amount of memory)
are provided in
CONFIGURING the SERVER on page 7
.
NOTE:
NOTE: The B200 M3 blade server requires UCS Manager (UCSM) to operate as
part of the UCS system.
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The B200 M3 with E5-2600 CPUs requires UCSM 2.0.2(q) or later
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The B200 M3 with E5-2600 v2 CPUs requires UCSM 2.1.3 or later
Table 1 Capabilities and Features
Capability/Feature
Description
Chassis
The UCS B200 M3 Blade Server mounts in a Cisco UCS 5100 series blade
server chassis
CPU
One or two Intel® E5-2600 v2 or E5-2600 series processor family CPUs
Chipset
Intel® C600 series chipset
Memory
24 total slots for registered ECC DIMMs for up to 768 GB total memory
capacity (B200 M3 configured with 2 CPUs using 32 GB DIMMs)
I/O
Mezzanine adapters:
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One connector for Cisco’s VIC 1240 adapter, which provides Ethernet and
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
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One connector for various types of Cisco adapters, Emulex or QLogic
adapters, and Cisco UCS Storage Accelerator adapters.
Storage controller
LSI Logic SAS 2004 integrated controller
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SAS/SATA support
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RAID 0 and 1
Internal storage devices
Up to two optional, front-accessible, hot-swappable 2.5-inch small form
factor (SFF) SAS or SATA solid-state disks (SSDs) or hard disk drives (HDDs).
An internal USB 2.0 port is also supported. A 4 GB USB 2.0 device is available
from Cisco.
NOTE:
The integrated RAID controller does not implement a write
cache. However, servers with two HDDs and RAID controllers with
cache lack the ability to match the performance of RAID’ed SSD
without cache, which can be configured with this server.
