Features And Benefits - Cisco UCS 5108 Installation Manual

Overview
• UCS B-Series blade servers, including the following:
• UCS C-Series rack servers, including the following:

Features and Benefits

The Cisco UCS 5108 server chassis revolutionizes the use and deployment of blade-based systems. By
incorporating unified fabric, integrated, embedded management, and fabric extender technology, the Cisco
Unified Computing System enables the chassis to have fewer physical components, no independent
management, and to be more energy efficient than traditional blade server chassis.
This simplicity eliminates the need for dedicated chassis management and blade switches, reduces cabling,
and enables the Cisco Unified Computing System to scale to 40 chassis without adding complexity. The Cisco
UCS 5108 server chassis is a critical component in delivering the Cisco Unified Computing System benefits
of data center simplicity and IT responsiveness.
Table 1: Features and Benefits
Feature
Management by Cisco
UCS Manager
Unified fabric
Support for one or two
Cisco UCS 2100 Series
or Cisco UCS 2200
FEXes or UCS 2304
IOM, and support for one
or two Cisco UCS 6324
Fabric Interconnects in
the UCS Mini chassis
Auto discovery
◦Cisco UCS B200 M3 blade servers (UCSB-B200-M3)—Up to eight half-width blade servers, each
containing two CPUs and holding up to two hard drives capable of RAID 0 or 1
◦Cisco UCS C240 M3 rack servers (UCSC-C240-M3) and Cisco UCS C220 M3 rack servers—Up
to seven rack servers, either C240 M3 or C220 M3 or a combination of the two.
Benefit
Reduces total cost of ownership by removing management modules from the
chassis, making the chassis stateless.
Provides a single, highly available management domain for all system chassis,
reducing administrative tasks.
Decreases TCO by reducing the number of network interface cards (NICs), host
bus adapters (HBAs), switches, and cables needed.
Eliminates switches from the chassis, including the complex configuration and
management of those switches, allowing a system to scale without adding
complexity and cost.
Allows use of two I/O modules for redundancy or aggregation of bandwidth.
Enables bandwidth scaling based on application needs; blades can be configured
from 1.25 Gbps to 40 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.
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