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The Cisco UCS B440 M2 delivers an optimized balance of processing performance, memory capacity, advanced
I/O, and mission-critical reliability in a high-density form factor. This powerful building block extends the capability
of the Cisco Unified Computing System to help IT architects deliver enterprise-critical services with higher levels of
efficiently, agility, and control than ever before.
Table 2 summarizes the features and benefits of the Cisco UCS B440 M2.
Table 2.
Features and Benefits
Feature
Benefit
Unified fabric
●
Decreases TCO by reducing the number of network interface cards (NICs), host bus adapters (HBAs),
switches, and cables needed
Integration with Cisco UCS
Manager service profiles
●
Helps reduce the number of manual steps required to deploy servers in the data center, improving server
policy consistency and coherency
●
Allows servers and support infrastructure to be provisioned in minutes instead of days, shifting IT’s focus from
maintenance to strategic initiatives
Autodiscovery
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Requires no configuration; as with all components in the Cisco Unified Computing System, blades are
automatically recognized and configured by Cisco UCS Manager
Extensive monitoring
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Through Cisco UCS Manager, provides extensive environmental monitoring for each blade
●
Allows use of user thresholds to optimize environmental management of the blade
Mezzanine adapters
●
Offers choice of CNAs and virtual interface adapters, providing flexibility, increased performance,
compatibility with industry standards, and network policy coherence for virtualized environments
Optional local storage
●
Provides support on each blade for up to four front-access hot-swappable drives for local storage, providing
redundancy options and ease of serviceability
●
Supports RAID 0, 1 and 5
●
Supports SFF SAS hard disk drives (HDDs) and SATA solid state drives (SSDs)
Intel
®
Xeon
®
processor
E7-4800 product family
●
Provide performance, reliability and security capabilities to meet the diverse needs of a virtualized
environment as well as the most computation-demanding standalone applications
●
Use Intel Turbo Boost Technology and Intel Intelligent Power Technology to adapt processor performance to
application demands and intelligently scale energy use based on utilization, reducing costs while still
delivering the performance required
●
Offer advanced reliability features, including Machine Check Architecture Recovery, to automatically monitor,
report, and recover from hardware errors to maintain data integrity and keep mission-critical services online
Specifications
Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers are designed for use in the Cisco Unified Computing System environment with
Cisco UCS Manager and Cisco UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnects, 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis, and
2200 Series Fabric Extenders to function in this integrated environment.
Table 3 summarizes the specifications for the Cisco UCS B440 M2. Table 4 summarizes regulatory standards
compliance.
Table 3.
Product Specifications
Item
Specification
Processors
●
2 or 4 Intel
®
Xeon
®
processor E7-4800 product family
Processor cores
●
6, 8, or 10 cores, varying by processor model
Memory
●
32 DIMM slots
●
Maximum of 1 TB
●
Support for DDR3 RDIMMs
Mezzanine adapter slots
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2 per Cisco UCS B440 M2
Hard drives
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Up to 4 front-accessible, hot-swappable, 2.5-inch SAS HDDs or SATA SSDs per blade
