Cisco Systems UCSEZINFRACHSS manual Components, Cisco UCS 5108 Server Chassis

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Components

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. It is available configured for AC (N20-C6508) and DC (UCSB-5108-DC) power environments.

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.

Four single-phase, hot-swappable AC or DC 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 configurations. The rear of the chassis contains eight hot-swappable fans, four power connectors (one per power supply), and two I/O bays for I/O modules. A passive midplane provides up to an effective maximum of 20 Gbps of I/O bandwidth per server slot and up to 40 Gbps of I/O bandwidth for two slots, the midplane is built to eventually support 80 Gbps per slot.

Scalability is dependent on both hardware and software. For more information, see FEX Upgrade

Considerations, on page 63 and the appropriate UCS software release notes.

LEDs

LEDs on the chassis indicate system connectivity and failure warnings. See LED Locations, on page 24 for details. There is also a flashing blue Beaconing LED and button that can be triggered manually or remotely from UCS Manager.

Buttons

The beaconing function LED is also a feature on/off button. When triggered, beaconing of the server chassis is observable remotely from UCS Manager.

Connectors

There are no user connectors such as RJ-45 ports on the chassis itself.

Midplane

The integral chassis midplane supports the following:

•40 G total bandwidth to each of two I/O Modules

•Auto-discover of all components

•Redundant data and management paths

•10 G Base-KR

Cisco UCS 5108 Server Chassis Installation Guide

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