Chassis Components; Cisco Ucs 5108 Server Chassis - Cisco UCS 5108 Installation Manual

Chassis Components

Feature
Redundant hot swappable power supplies and fans
Hot-pluggable blade servers, FEXes, and fabric
interconnects
Comprehensive monitoring
Efficient front-to-back airflow
Tool-free installation
Mixed blade configurations
Chassis Components
This section lists an overview of chassis components.

Cisco UCS 5108 Server Chassis

The Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis is a scalable and flexible blade server chassis for today's
and tomorrow's data center that helps reduce total cost of ownership. There are two versions available that
can be configured for AC (N20-C6508 and UCSB-5108-AC2) and two versions that can be configured for
DC (UCSB-5108-DC and UCSB-5108-DC2) power environments. An additional version (UCSB-5108-HVDC)
is available that can be configured for 200 - 380V DC environments.
The chassis is six rack units (6 RU) high and can mount in an industry-standard 19-inch rack with square
holes (such as the Cisco R Series Racks) or in round hole racks when an adapter is used. The chassis can
house up to eight half-width Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers and can accommodate both half- and full-width
blade form factors.
Up to four hot-swappable AC, DC, or HVDC power supplies are accessible from the front of the chassis.
These power supplies can be configured to support nonredundant, N+1 redundant, and grid-redundant
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Benefit
Provides high availability in multiple configurations.
Increases serviceability.
Provides uninterrupted service during maintenance.
Available configured for AC or DC environments
(mixing not supported)
Provides uninterrupted service during maintenance
and server deployment.
Provides extensive environmental monitoring on each
chassis
Allows use of user thresholds to optimize
environmental management of the chassis.
Helps reduce power consumption and increase
component reliability.
Requires no specialized tools for chassis installation.
Provides mounting rails for easy installation and
servicing.
Allows up to 8 half-width or 4 full-width blade
servers, or any combination thereof, for outstanding
flexibility. (When the UCS Mini chassis is configured
with the 6324 Fabric Interconnect, only 8 half-width
blades are supported.)
Overview