
Cisco UCS B420 M4 Blade Server
BASE SERVER STANDARD CAPABILITIES and FEATURES
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BASE SERVER STANDARD CAPABILITIES and FEATURES
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:
The B420 M4 blade server requires UCS Manager (UCSM) to operate as part of
the UCS system.
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The B420 M4 with E5-4600 v3 or v4 CPUs requires UCSM 2.2(5a) or later
Table 1 Capabilities and Features
Capability/Feature
Description
Blade server chassis
The full-width UCS B420 M4 Blade Server mounts in a Cisco UCS 5100 series
blade server chassis
CPU
Up to four Intel® E5-4600 v3 or v4 series processor family CPUs.
2- and 4-CPU configurations are supported on the UCS B420 M4.
Chipset
Intel® C610 chipset
Memory
48 total slots for registered ECC DIMMs
I/O
Three configurable adapter slots:
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One slot supports the Cisco VIC 1340/1240 adapter only.
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Two additional slots support Cisco adapters and Cisco UCS Storage
Accelerator adapters.
Storage controller
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Diskless system (no drive bays or RAID controller), or
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Optional Cisco FlexStorage 12G SAS RAID controller options, offering:
• SAS/SATA/HDD/SSD support
• RAID support: 0, 1, 10 or
• RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 6 with optional 2 GB flash-backed write cache
Storage devices
Either two or four hot-plug 2.5” SFF drive bays
One internal USB 3.0 port
Two Cisco Flexible Flash secure digital card slots
Interfaces
Front panel
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One console connector
(see
CHOOSE LOCAL KVM I/O CABLE* (OPTIONAL) on page 37
)