Chassis Management in Cisco UCS Manager CLI
You can manage and monitor all chassis in a Cisco UCS domain through Cisco UCS Manager CLI.
The Cisco UCS S3260 Chassis
Cisco UCS Manager Release 4.2(3) introduces support for the Cisco UCS S3260 chassis on Cisco UCS 6536 Fabric Interconnect.
Cisco UCS Manager Release 4.1(1) introduces support for the Cisco UCS S3260 chassis on Cisco UCS 64108 Fabric Interconnect.
Cisco UCS Manager Release 4.0(1) introduces support for the Cisco UCS S3260 chassis on Cisco UCS 6454 Fabric Interconnect.
Cisco UCS Manager Release 3.1(2) introduces support for the Cisco UCS S3260 chassis on Cisco UCS 6300 Series, and 6200 Series fabric interconnect setups.
The Cisco UCS S3260 chassis is a 4U chassis that is designed to operate in a standalone environment and also as part of the Cisco Unified Computing System. It has the following main components:
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Four 1050 Watt AC modular power supplies (2 + 2 shared and redundant mode of operation)
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Two System IO Controller (SIOC) slots
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Two storage server slots out of which one can be used for storage expansion
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The second server slot in the chassis can be utilized by an HDD expansion tray module for an additional four 3.5” drives.
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56 3.5” drive bays with an optional 4 x 3.5” HDD expansion tray module instead of the second server
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Up to 360 TB storage capacity by using 6 TB HDDs
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Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) expanders that can be configured to assign the 3.5” drives to individual server modules
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The two servers in the chassis can be replaced by a single, dual-height server with an IO expander
Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis
The Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis is logically part of the fabric interconnects, thus creating a single, coherent management domain and decreasing management complexity. In the management domain, server management is handled by the fabric interconnect, while I/O and network management is extended to every chassis and blade server. Basing the I/O infrastructure on a unified fabric allows the Cisco Unified Computing System to have a simple and streamlined chassis yet offer a comprehensive set of I/O options. This results in the chassis having only five basic components:
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The physical chassis with passive midplane and active environmental monitoring circuitry
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Four power-supply bays with power entry in the rear, and redundant-capable, hot-swappable power supply units accessible from the front panel
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Eight hot-swappable fan trays, each with two fans
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Two fabric extender slots accessible from the back panel
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Eight blade server slots accessible from the front panel
The blade server chassis has flexible partitioning with removable dividers to handle two blade server form factors:
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Half-width blade servers have access to power and two 10GBASE-KR connections, one to each fabric extender slot.
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Full-width blade servers connect to power and two connections to each fabric extender.
Extended Chassis for UCS Mini
Cisco UCS Manager Release 3.1(1) introduces support for an extended UCS 5108 chassis to an existing single-chassis Cisco UCS 6324 fabric interconnect setup. This extended chassis enables you to configure an additional 8 servers. Unlike the primary chassis, the extended chassis supports IOMs. Currently, it supports UCS-IOM-2204XP and UCS-IOM-2208XP IOMs. The extended chassis can only be connected through the scalability port on the FI-IOM.
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Currently, Cisco UCS Manager supports only one extended chassis for UCS Mini. |
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Connect the second Cisco UCS 5108 chassis to the existing single-chassis Cisco UCS 6324 Series fabric interconnect configuration through the scalability port.
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Configure the chassis discovery policy.
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Configure the server ports and wait for the second chassis to be discovered.