Cisco HyperFlex HX240c Edge M5 Short Depth Nodes Data Sheet

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Rich digital experiences need always-on, local, high-performance computing that is close to users. Retail, finance, education, healthcare, transportation, and manufacturing organizations, and remote and branch offices in general, are all pushing computing to the network edge. Cisco HyperFlex HX240c Edge M5 Short-Depth (SD) Nodes bring the robust feature set of Cisco HyperFlex systems to your edge environments with high-capacity storage and cloud management in a smaller form factor.

Simplicity for the edge

As enterprise applications migrated to centralized data centers and the cloud, the Internet edge moved closer to user devices and organizational touchpoints like remote and branch offices. Cisco HyperFlex HX240c Edge M5 SD Nodes are deployed as a preintegrated cluster with a unified pool of resources that you can quickly provision, adapt, scale, and manage to efficiently power your Remote-Office and Branch-Office (ROBO) locations. Physically, the solutions are deployed as sets of two, three, or four edge-specific nodes that use Cisco or third-party Gigabit or 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches, offering the utmost in flexibility for deployment in remote and branch-office environments (Figure 1). All nodes use Intel® Xeon® Scalable CPUs and next-generation DDR4 memory and offer 12-Gbps SAS throughput.

Cisco HyperFlex Edge delivers a preintegrated, high storage capacity cluster to remote-office and branch-office locations

Figure 1.            

Cisco HyperFlex Edge delivers a preintegrated, high storage capacity cluster to remote-office and branch-office locations

Cisco HyperFlex HX240c Edge M5 SD Nodes

Cisco HyperFlex HX240c Edge M5 SD Nodes bring high storage capacity to the network edge. These nodes are available with hybrid and all-flash storage in a Two-Rack-Unit (2RU), short-depth chassis. With the same easy deployment and management as all Cisco HyperFlex Edge systems, these platforms bring greater storage capacity to edge locations and small or medium-size businesses. The solutions are managed by the Cisco Intersight cloud operations platform, delivering consistent policy-based enforcement, powering growing requirements in branch offices and remote sites, and enabling new IoT and intelligent services at the network edge.

Features and benefits

Table 1.        Features and benefits of Cisco HyperFlex HX240c Edge M5 Short Depth Nodes.

Feature

Benefit

Memory

  High memory capacity, from 128 GB to 3 TB of memory

Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs

High performance
  14-nanometer (nm) processor technology
  Massive processing power
  Top-of-the-line memory-channel performance
  Improved scalability and intercore data flow
  Intel Automated Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)
Agility
  Supports highly densive virtual machine deployments
  Offers flexible virtualization technology that optimizes performance for virtualized environments, including processor support for migration and direct I/O
Efficiency and security
  Low-power, high-speed DDR4 memory technology
  Automated energy efficiency reduces energy costs by automatically putting the processor and memory in the lowest available power state while delivering the performance required
  Hardware-assisted security advancements

Network

  Easy deployment in existing edge locations
  Use of existing top-of-rack 1 Gigabit Ethernet or 10/25 Gigabit Ethernet swiching networks for cluster communication
  Support for single and dual switch configurations

Expansion

  Support for up to 2 PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 slots
  Flexibility, increased performance, and compatibility with industry standards
  High I/O bandwidth, increased flexibility, and backward compatibility with support for PCIe 2.0

Virtualization optimization

  I/O virtualization and Intel Xeon Scalable processor features, extending the network directly to virtual machines Consistent and scalable operational model
  Increased security and efficiency with reduced complexity
  Capability to move virtual machine security features and policies from rack to rack or rack to blade

Cloud-based management

Cisco Intersight simplifies operations across on-premises data centers, edge sites, and public clouds.
  Use a software-as-a-service platform that bridges applications with infrastructure
  Gain instant access to clusters regardless of where they are deployed
  Correlate visibility and management across bare-metal servers, hypervisors, Kubernetes, and serverless and application components
  Transform operations with artificial intelligence to reach needed scale and velocity
  Collaborate and work smarter and faster by automating lifecycle workflows
  Support compliance and governance with extensible, open capabilities that natively integrate with third-party platforms and tools
  Proactively respond to impending issues with a recommendation engine that determines when capacity needs to be scaled
Additional management capabilities include:
  Optional Installation wizard for automated configuration
  Support for the VMware vSphere plug-in
  Support for the Cisco HyperFlex Connect interface with an HTML 5 presentation layer accessible on desktop and laptop computers and mobile devices

Storage

  All-flash-memory or hybrid (Hard-Disk Drive [HDD] and solid-state-disk [SSD] memory) storage configurations

Enterprise data protection

  Pointer-based snapshot capabilities
  Near-instant cloning
  Inline deduplication and compression

Software

  Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform Software (software subscription)

Product specifications

Table 2.        Specifications for Cisco HyperFlex HX240c Edge M5 Hybrid, All Flash, and Short Depth Nodes.

Feature

Description

Chassis

  2RU of rack space per node in a short-depth (22-inch) chassis

Nodes

  2, 3, or 4 Cisco HyperFlex HX240c Short Depth Nodes (hybrid or all-flash)

Processors

  1 or 2 Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs per node

Interconnect

  3 Intel UPI channels per processor, each capable of 10.4 Gigatransfers Per Second (GTPS)

Chip set

  Intel C620 series

Memory

  24 DDR2 DIMM slots per node
  Support for DDR4 Registered DIMMs (RDIMMs) and Load-Reduced DIMMS (LRDIMMs)
  Advanced Error-Correcting Code (ECC)
  Independent channel mode
  Lockstep channel mode

PCIe slots

  Up to 6 PCIe slots (on two riser cards)
  Option 1: 2 drive bays, 1 PCIe slot, and 1 Micro SD slot

    Drive bay 3: 4 x 2.5-inch card height

    Drive bay 5: 4 x 2.5-inch card height

    PCIe slot 1: full-height, ¾ length slot

    Micro SD slot include on top of riser

  Option 2: 2 drive bays, 1 PCIe slot, 1 NVMe connector

    Drive bay 3: 4 x 2.5-inch card height

    Drive bay 5: 4 x 2.5-inch card height

    PCIe slot 1: full-height, ¾ length slot

    1 NVMe connector that supports 2 PCIe NVME drives

  1 dedicated SAS HBA slot

Modular LAN on Motherboard (mLOM) slot

  1 dedicated mLOM spot supports Cisco Virtual Interface Cards

Storage

  HX240c Edge Short Depth:

    Up to 6 Small-Form-Factor (SFF) SDD or HDD storage capacity drives
(960-GB, 3.8-TB, or 7.6-TB options) for up to 45.6 TB total capacity

    1 SSD caching drive (480-GB or 800-GB options)

    1 SSD logging drive (240-GB or 480-GB options)

  Cisco 12-Gbps Modular SAS Host Bus Adapter (HBA) for internal connection for up to 6 internal SAS/SAA SSDs or SAS/SATA HDDs
  M.2 SATA SSD drive for boot

Cisco® Integrated Management Controller (IMC)

  Provides video using the Matrox G200e video and graphics controller
  Connection to Cisco UCS management or the Cisco HyperFlex dashboard for automated configuration through a unified interface
  Integraded Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
  IPMI 2.0 compliant for management and control
  One 10/100/1000 Ethernet out-of-band management interface
  Command-Line Interface (CLI) and web GUI management tool for automated, lights-out management
  Keyboard, Video, and Mouse (KVM) console

Advanced Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) features

  Highly available and self-healing architecture
  Robust reporting and analytics
  Hot-swappable, front-accessible drives
  Dual-redundant fans and hot-swappable, redundant power supplies for enterprise-class reliability and uptime Convenient latching lid for easy access to internal server
  Tool-free CPU insertion, enabling processor upgrades and replacements with less risk of damage
  Tool-free access to all serviceable items, and color-coded indicators to guide users to hot-pluggable and serviceable items
  Nondisruptive rolling upgrades
  Cisco Call Home and onsite 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week (24 x 7) support options

Front-panel connectors

  1 Gigabit Ethernet management port
  2 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports
  1 flexible modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) slot
  1 RS-232 serial port (RJ45 connector)
  1 Video Graphics Array (VGA) video port (DB15 connector)
  2 USB 3.0 ports
  Power, reset, and ID buttons
  System, fan, temperature, power supply, and network activity status LEDs

Power and cooling

  Two hot-swappable power supplies for full redundancy
  1050W (AC and DC options)
  6 hot-swappable fans for front-to-rear cooling

Rail-kit options

  Cisco ball-bearing rail kit with optional reversible cable-management arm
  Cisco friction rail kit with optional reversible cable-management arm

Software

  Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform Software (software subscription)

Ordering information

For a complete list of part numbers, refer to the HX240c Edge M5 Hybrid and All Flash and HX240c Edge M5 Short Depth specification sheets.

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