Base Chassis Standard Capabilities And Features - Cisco UCS 5108 Spec Sheet

BASE CHASSIS STANDARD CAPABILITIES and FEATURES

BASE CHASSIS STANDARD CAPABILITIES and FEATURES
Table 3 lists the capabilities and features of the base 5108 chassis. Details about how to configure the
chassis for a particular feature or capability are provided in
Table 3 Capabilities and Features
Capability/Feature
Management by Cisco
UCS Manager
Unified fabric
Support for one or two
Cisco UCS 2100 or
2200 Series Fabric
Extenders
Auto-discovery
High-performance
mid-plane
Redundant
hot-swappable power
supplies and fans
Hot-swappable blade
servers and fabric
extenders
Comprehensive
monitoring
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Description
Reduces TCO by removing management modules from the chassis,
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making the chassis stateless, and UCS systems management inherently
scalable
Provides a single, highly available management domain for all system
■
chassis, reducing administrative tasks through automated service profile
configuration
Decreases TCO by reducing the number of network interface cards (NICs),
host bus adapters (HBAs), switches, and cables needed
Eliminates switches from the chassis along with complex configuration
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and management of those switches, allowing a system to scale without
adding complexity and cost
Allows use of two fabric extenders for redundancy or aggregation of
■
bandwidth
■ Enables bandwidth scaling based on application needs; blades can be
configured for 1.25 Gbps to 10 Gbps or more
Requires no configuration; like all components in the Cisco Unified Computing
System, chassis are automatically recognized and configured by Cisco UCS
Manager and its service profiles and service profile groups
Provides investment protection
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■
Supports up to 2x 40 Gbit Ethernet links to each half-width blade slot or
up to 4x 40 Gbit links to each full-width slot
Provides 8 blades with 1.2 terabits (Tb) of available Ethernet
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throughput for future I/O requirements
Provides reconfigurable chassis to accommodate a variety of form
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factors and functions
Provides high availability in multiple configurations
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Provides uninterrupted service during maintenance
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Provides uninterrupted service during maintenance and server deployment
Provides extensive environmental monitoring on each chassis
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Allows use of user thresholds to optimize environmental management of
■
the chassis
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