The Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS) combines Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers & B-Series Blade Servers with networking & storage access into a single converged system that simplifies management & delivers greater cost efficiency & agility with increased visibility & control. The latest expansion of the Cisco UCS portfolio
Includes:: the new Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server (one rack unit [1RU]) & Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server (2RU) & the Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server. These three new servers increase compute density through more cores & cache balanced with more memory capacity, disk drives & with faster I/O. Together these server improvements & complementary Cisco UCS advancements deliver the best combination of features & cost efficiency required to support IT's diverse server needs. The Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server (Figure 1) is designed for performance & density over a wide range of business workloads, from web serving to distributed databases. Building on the success of the Cisco UCS C200 M2 Rack Server, the enterprise-class Cisco UCS C220 M3 server further extends the capabilities of the Cisco UCS portfolio in a 1RU form factor with the addition of the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 & E5-2600 v 2 product families, which deliver significant performance & efficiency gains. In addition, the Cisco UCS C220 M3 server offers up to two Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 or E5-2600 v 2 processors, 16 DIMM slots, eight disk drives, & two 1 Gigabit Ethernet LAN-on-motherboard (LOM) ports, delivering outstanding density & performance in a compact package. The Cisco UCS C220 M3 interfaces with Cisco UCS using another unique Cisco innovation: the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card. The Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card is a virtualization-optimized Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCo E) PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 x 8 10-Gbps adapter designed for use with Cisco UCS C-Series servers. The VIC is a dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe adapter that can support up to 256 PCIe standards-compliant virtual interfaces, which can be dynamically configured so that both their interface type (network interface card [NIC] or host bus adapter [HBA]) & identity (MAC address & worldwide name [WWN]) are established using just-in-time provisioning. In addition, the Cisco UCS VIC 1225 can support network interface virtualization & Cisco Data Center Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology.