An upgrade kit is available to upgrade the Cisco UCS B260 blade server to the UCS B460 M4 blade server.
The upgrade kits includes the following parts:
• One UCS Scalable M4 Blade Module
• One UCS Scalability Connector that attaches to the front of the blade modules and connects them to
form the four-socket blade server.
The two UCS Scalable M4 Blade Modules in the UCS B460 M4 blade server are in a master-slave relationship.
The lower module is the master, and the upper module is the slave. The KVM cable, USB flash drive, and
SD cards must be configured in the master blade module of a B460 M4 blade server; if they are configured
in the slave module, they will not operate.
See
Upgrading to a Cisco UCS B460 M4 Blade Server, on page 37
for the instructions to upgrade to a UCS
B460 M4 blade server.
There are two versions of the UCS B460 M4 blade server. The following table lists the features of each version.
Table 2: Features of the UCS B460 M4 Blade Server
UCS B460 M4 with Intel Xeon E7 v3
CPU
UCS B460 M4 with Intel Xeon E7 v2
CPU
Feature
UCSB-EX-M4-2
UCSB-EX-M4-1
Base server PID
Full width, double height
Full width, double height
Form factor
4
4
Number of CPUs
Intel Xeon E7 v3
Intel Xeon E7 v2
CPU Model
DDR3 DIMMs
DDR3 DIMMs
Memory type
96
96
Memory slots
2 that supports 4 SAS or SATA
hard drives
2 that supports 4 SAS or SATA
hard drives
LSI3008 SASRAID Controller
4 HDD or SSD
4 HDD or SSD
Drive Quantity
4 + 2x mLOM
4 + 2x mLOM
Mezzanine slots
2
2
Secure digital (SD) cards
1
1
Internal USB device
1
1
Trusted platform module (TPM)
Cisco UCS B260 M4 and B460 M4 Blade Server Installation and Service Note for Servers with E7 v3 and E7 v2 CPUs
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Overview
The Cisco UCS B460 M4 Blade Server