BASE SERVER STANDARD CAPABILITIES and FEATURES
Table 1
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
Table 1 Capabilities and Features
Capability/Feature
Blade server chassis
CPU
Chipset
Memory
I/O
Storage controller
Storage devices
Interfaces
Cisco UCS B420 M4 Blade Server
NOTE: The B420 M4 blade server requires UCS Manager (UCSM) to operate as part of
the UCS system.
The B420 M4 with E5-4600 v3 or v4 CPUs requires UCSM 2.2(5a) or later
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Description
The full-width UCS B420 M4 Blade Server mounts in a Cisco UCS 5100 series
blade server chassis
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.
Intel® C610 chipset
48 total slots for registered ECC DIMMs
Three configurable adapter slots:
One slot supports the Cisco VIC 1340/1240 adapter only.
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Two additional slots support Cisco adapters and Cisco UCS Storage
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Accelerator adapters.
Diskless system (no drive bays or RAID controller), or
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Optional Cisco FlexStorage 12G SAS RAID controller options, offering:
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• 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
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
Front panel
One console connector
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(see
CHOOSE LOCAL KVM I/O CABLE* (OPTIONAL) on page
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