Overview
Features and Benefits
•Fan modules (N20-FAN5)—Eight hot-swappable fan modules
•UCS B-series blade servers, including
◦Cisco UCS B200 blade servers (N20-B6620-1 for M1 or N20-B6625-1 for M2)—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 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 B22 blade servers (UCSB-B22-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 B230 blade servers (N20-B6730)—Up to eight half-width blade servers, each containing two CPUs and holding up to two SDD drives capable of RAID 0 or 1
◦Cisco UCS B250 blade servers (N20-B6620-2 for M1 or N20-B6625-2 for M2)—Up to four full-width blade servers, each containing two CPUs and holding up to two hard drives capable of RAID 0 or 1
◦Cisco UCS B440 blade servers (N20-B6740-2)—Up to four full-width blade servers, each containing four CPUs and holding up to four hard drives capable of RAID 0, 1, 5, and 6
◦Cisco UCS B420 blade servers (UCSB-B420-M3)—Up to four full-width blade servers, each containing four CPUs and holding up to four hard drives capable of RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10
Features and Benefits
The Cisco UCS 5108 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 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 | Benefit |
Management by Cisco | Reduces total cost of ownership by removing management modules from the |
UCS Manager | chassis, making the chassis stateless. |
| Provides a single, highly available management domain for all system chassis, |
| reducing administrative tasks. |
Unified fabric | Decreases TCO by reducing the number of network interface cards (NICs), host |
| bus adapters (HBAs), switches, and cables needed. |
Cisco UCS 5108 Server Chassis Installation Guide
