-PLEASE CONTACT FOR CUSTOM CONFIGURATIONS. DISK SHELVES, COMPLETE CONFIGURATIONS & TURN KEY SYSTEMS AVAILABLE.
-SPARE PARTS AVAILABLE FOR EACH MODEL. PLEASE ASK FOR PRICING ON SPARE DISK, CONTROLLERS, POWER SUPPLIES, NICs, HBAs, SFPs, Cables, etc.
Cisco B200 M6 CTO Blade Server
Delivering performance, versatility and density without compromise, the Cisco UCS B200 M6 Blade Server addresses the broadest set of workloads, from IT and web infrastructure through distributed database. The enterprise-class Cisco UCS B200 M6 blade server extends the capabilities of Cisco’s Unified Computing System portfolio in a half-width blade form factor. The Cisco UCS B200 M6 harnesses the power of the latest 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors (Ice Lake) with:
- Up to 2 TB of RAM per CPU (using 16 x 128 GB DRAMs) or
up to 5 TB per CPU (using 8 x 128 GB DRAMs and 8 x 512 GB Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory Modules (PMem)) - Two solid-state drives (SSDs), or
Two PCIE NVMe drives, or
Mini storage carrier with M.2 SATA drives. UCS-M2-HWRAID is required when selecting the M.2 SATA drives. - Up to 80 Gbps throughput connectivity.
The UCS B200 M6 Blade Server mounts in a Cisco UCS 5108 Series blade server chassis or UCS Mini blade server chassis. The Cisco B200 M6 Blade Server can support either a Single or Dual CPU configuration. One major difference in the configurations is the Memory supported. If you would like to install PMem or a NVME PCIe Driver. You will need two identical CPUs installed. If you only install 1 CPU then you can only install RDIMM or LRDIMM and the system can’t support NVME PCIe Drives.
The standard CPU features are:
- 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors (Ice Lake)
- Intel® C621A series chipset
- Cache size of up to 60 MB
- Up to 40 cores
NOTE:Not all CPUs support a Dual configuration. The following can only support 1 CPU per Blade. The UCS-CPU-I8351N, UCS-CPU-I6314U, and UCS-CPU-I6312U.
Memory
8 memory channels per CPU, up to 2 DIMMs per channel 32 DIMMS total (16 per CPU) 4 TB maximum memory (with 128GB DIMMs)
Since this bald can support 1 or 2 CPUS the DIMM configurations are different per CPU configuration.
- 1 CPU Minimum DIMM count = 1; Maximum DIMM count = 16
2 CPUs Minimum DIMM count = 2; Maximum DIMM count = 32 - DIMMs for both CPUs must be configured identically.
- Support for Advanced ECC
- Mixing different types of DIMM (RDIMM with LRDIMM) is not supported within a server.
- Mixing PMem sizes is not supported
- Mixing 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB RDIMMs is supported.
- 128GB LRDIMMs cannot be mixed with other RDIMMs.
1-CPU or 2-CPU Memory Mirroring
- Select 8 or 16 DIMMs per CPU.
- In addition, the memory mirroring option (N01-MMIRROR) must be selected
Memory Notes:
1. Memory mirroring is allowed only with DIMMs; no memory mirroring can be configured if PMem are installed.
2. All 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors (Ice Lake) support PMem products, except 4309Y, 4310, 4310T, and 4316 processors.
3. Any empty DIM M slot must be populated with a DIMM blank to maintain proper cooling airflow.
Drive Options
This Blade server from Cisco can support three types of drives. Each type of drive has a specific Front Mezzanine Adapter that must go with it.
- 2x SAS/SATA Drives need the UCSB-RAID12G-M6
- 2x PCIe NVMe Drives need the UCSB-LSTOR-PT-M6
- 4x SATA M.2 Drives need the UCSB-MSTOR-M6 Mini Storage Carrier.
Note:
1.The B200 M6 can accommodate one UCSB-MSTOR-M6 mini-storage carrier. The carrier can hold up to two UCS-M2-HWRAID boot-optimized RAID controllers. Up to two UCS-M2-240GB or UCS-M2-960GB SATA M.2 drive cards plug into each UCS-M2-HWRAID, so you can have a maximum of four SATA M.2 cards. The SATA M.2 cards plugged into the same UCS-M2-HWRAID RAID controller must be the same capacity.
2. If you order M.2 SATA drives, you must select the boot-optimized RAID controller.
3. The UCS-M2-HWRAID controller supports RAID 1
4. The SATA M.2 drives can boot in UEFI mode only. Legacy boot mode is not supported
Intel Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel VROC)
The server supports Intel® Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel® VROC). VROC is an enterprise RAID solution used with Intel NVMe SSDs. The Intel® Volume Management Device (Intel® VMD) is a controller integrated into the CPU PCIe root complex. Intel® VMD NVMe SSDs are connected to the CPU, which allows the full performance potential of fast Intel® Optane™ SSDs to be realized. Intel® VROC, when implemented, replaces traditional hardware RAID host bus adapter (HBA) cards placed between the drives and the CPU.
VROC has the following features:
- Small Form Factor (SFF) drive support (only)
- No battery backup (BBU) or external SuperCap is needed
- Software-based solution utilizing Intel SFF NVMe direct connected to Intel CPU
- RAID 0/1/5/10 support
- Windows, Linux, VMware OS support.
- Host Tools- Windows GUI/CLI, Linux CLI.
- UEFI Support- HII Utility, OBSE.
- Intel VROC NVMe operates in UEFI mode only
Expansion Slots
Cisco developed the 1400 Series and 15411 Virtual Interface Card (VIC) to provide flexibility to create multiple NIC and HBA devices.
The VIC features are listed here:
- Includes enhancements, including network overlay offload support.
- Provides two Converged Network Adapter (CNA) ports, supporting both Ethernet and FCoE
- Delivers up to 80 Gbps total I/O throughput to the server
- Supports 2x40 (native) Gbps Unified I/O ports
- Supports up to 256 fully functional unique and independent PCIe adapters and interfaces
- Provides virtual machine visibility from the physical network and a consistent network operations model for physical and virtual servers
- Supports customer requirements for a wide range of operating systems and hypervisors
The mLOM VIC on the UCS B200 M6 enables connectivity to the Fabric Interconnect either through the Fabric Extenders (FEX) or directly using the UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect (UCS Mini) on the UCS 5108 Blade Chassis.
Power & Fan Units
The UCS B200 M6 Blade Server mounts in a Cisco UCS 5108 Series blade server chassis or UCS Mini blade server chassis. Power subsystem Integrated in the Cisco UCS 5108 blade server chassis Fans Integrated in the Cisco UCS 5108 blade server chassis.
Dimensions & Weight:
- Height 1.95 in. (50 mm)
- Width 8.35 in.(212 mm)
- Depth 24.4 in. (620 mm)
- Base server weight
0 lbs (4.54 kg) (no HDDs, no CPUs, no DIMMs, no mezzanine adapters or memory) - Minimally configured server weight
- 08 lbs (4.57 kg) (no HDDs, 2 CPUs, 2 DIMMs, VIC 1440 but no additional mezzanine adapter
- Fully configured server weight
- 14 lbs (8.23 kg) (2 HDDs, 2 CPUs, 32 DIMMs, VIC 1440 and additional mezzanine adapter both populated)
