New and Changed Information for This Release
This section provides information on new features and changed behaviors in Cisco UCS Manager, Release 4.3.
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Support for Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects 9108 100G |
Cisco UCS Manager now supports Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects 9108 100G (Cisco UCS X-Series Direct). |
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Support for Cisco UCS C-Series M8 servers |
Cisco UCS Manager now supports Cisco UCS C245 M8 Servers. |
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Traffic Monitoring |
Cisco UCS Manager guidelines for configuring ERSPAN Traffic Monitoring on Cisco UCS 64108 Fabric Interconnects and Cisco UCS 6532 Fabric Interconnects. |
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PCIe Node Monitoring |
PCIe node inventory monitoring. |
New in Relese 4.3(4b)
Cisco UCS X-Series Direct®
The Cisco UCS X-Series Direct® simplifies your data center, adapting to the unpredictable needs of modern applications while also providing an edge scaled for remote branch office workloads. It minimizes the IT infrastructure deployed at edge locations to achieve desired business outcomes. As you are looking to increase the number of applications at the edge while deploying as little IT infrastructure as possible, the Cisco UCS X-Series Direct®, powered by Cisco Intersight® and Cisco UCS Manager, enables the benefits of scale together with a secure and unified connectivity.
The Cisco UCS X-Series Direct begins with the Cisco UCS X9508 Chassis engineered to be adaptable and future ready. It is a standard, open system designed to deploy and automate faster in concert with a hybrid-cloud environment.
With a midplane-free design, I/O connectivity for the X9508 chassis is accomplished with frontloading, vertically oriented compute nodes intersecting with horizontally oriented I/O connectivity modules in the rear of the chassis. The I/O connectivity modules of the solution are the Cisco UCS X-Series Direct Fabric Interconnect Modules, a unified fabric for Ethernet and Fibre Channel. Additionally, the UCS X9508 chassis can have expanded GPU capabilities using the Cisco UCS X-Fabric technology which interconnects X-series compute and PCIe nodes using high-speed PCIe technology.
For more information see Cisco UCS X-Series Direct Data Sheet.
New in Release 4.3(4b)
Cisco UCS C245 M8 Rack Server
The Cisco UCS C245 M8 Server is perfectly suited for a wide range of storage and I/O-intensive applications such as big data analytics, databases, collaboration, virtualization, consolidation, AI/ML and high-performance computing supporting up to two AMD® CPUs in a 2RU form factor.
The Cisco UCS C245 M8 Server extends the capabilities of the Cisco UCS rack server portfolio. With advanced features like AMD Infinity Guard, compute-intensive applications will see significant performance improvements and will reap other benefits such as power and cost efficiencies.
You can deploy the Cisco UCS C-Series rack servers as part of the Cisco Unified Computing System™ managed by Cisco Intersight® or Cisco UCS Manager® to take advantage of Cisco® standards-based unified computing innovations that can help reduce your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and increase your business agility or as standalone servers.
The Cisco UCS C245 M8 Server brings many innovations to the UCS AMD® rack server line. With the introduction of PCIe Gen 5.0 expansion slots for high-speed I/O, a DDR5 memory bus, and expanded storage capabilities, the server delivers significant performance and efficiency gains that will greatly enhance application performance. Features include:
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Support for up to two 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs in a server designed to drive as much as 256 CPU cores (128 cores per socket)
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Up to 24 DDR5 DIMM slots
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Up to 4800 MT/s DDR5 memory
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Up to 8 x PCIe Gen 4.0 slots or up to 4 x PCIe Gen 5.0 slots, plus a hybrid modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) /OCP 3.0 slot (details below)
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Support for Cisco UCS VIC 15000 Series adapters as well as a host of third-party NIC options
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Up to 28 hot-swappable small-form-factor (SFF) SAS/SATA or NVMe drives (with up to 8 direct-attach NVMe drives) and New tri-mode RAID controller supports SAS4 plus NVMe hardware RAID.
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M.2 boot options
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Up to two 960GB SATA M.2 drives with hardware RAID support
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Up to two 960GB NVMe M.2 drives with NVMe hardware RAID
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Support for up to Eight GPUs
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Modular LOM / OCP 3.0
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One dedicated PCIe Gen4x16 slot that can be used to add an mLOM or OCP 3.0 card for additional rear-panel connectivity
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mLOM slot that can be used to install a Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) without consuming a PCIe slot, supporting quad-port 10/25/50 Gbps or dual-port 40/100/200 Gbps network connectivity
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OCP 3.0 slot that features full out-of-band management for select adapters
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Cisco UCS Manager supports all the peripherals supported by Cisco UCS C245 M8 Server. For complete list of supported peripherals for Cisco UCS C245 M8 Server, see Cisco UCS C245 M8 SFF Rack Server Spec Sheet.
New in Release 4.3(2c)
Cisco UCS X410c M7 Compute Node
The Cisco UCS X410c M7 Compute Node is the first 4-socket 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors computing device to integrate into the Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System. Up to four compute nodes or two compute nodes and two GPU nodes can reside in the 7-rack-unit (7RU) Cisco UCS X9508 Server Chassis, offering high performance and efficiency gains for a wide range of mission-critical enterprise applications, memory-intensive applications and bare-metal and virtualized workloads.
The Cisco UCS X410c M7 Compute Node provides these main features:
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CPU: Four 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors with up to 60 cores per processor
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Memory: Up to 16TB of main memory with 64x 256 GB DDR5-4800 Memory DIMMs
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Storage: Up to six hot-pluggable solid-state drives (SSDs), or non-volatile memory express (NVMe) 2.5-inch drives with a choice of enterprise-class RAID or passthrough controllers, up to two M.2 SATA drives with optional hardware RAID
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mLOM virtual interface cards:
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Cisco UCS VIC 15420 occupies the server's modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) slot, enabling up to 50 Gbps of unified fabric connectivity to each of the chassis’s intelligent fabric modules (IFMs) for 100 Gbps connectivity per server.
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Cisco UCS VIC 15231 occupies the server's modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) slot, enabling up to 100 Gbps of unified fabric connectivity to each of the chassis’s intelligent fabric modules (IFMs) for 100 Gbps connectivity per server.
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Cisco UCS VIC 15230 (with secure boot feature) occupies the server's modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) slot, enabling up to 100 Gbps of unified fabric connectivity to each of the chassis’s intelligent fabric modules (IFMs) for 100 Gbps connectivity per server.
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Optional mezzanine card:
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Cisco UCS 5th Gen VIC 15422 can occupy the server's mezzanine slot at the bottom rear of the chassis. This card's I/O connectors link to Cisco UCS X-Fabric technology. An included bridge card extends this VIC's 2x 50 Gbps of network connections through IFM connectors, bringing the total bandwidth to 100 Gbps per fabric (for a total of 200 Gbps per server).
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Cisco UCS PCI Mezz card for Cisco UCS X-Fabric can occupy the server's mezzanine slot at the bottom rear of the chassis. This card's I/O connectors link to Cisco UCS X-Fabric modules and enable connectivity to the Cisco UCS X440p PCIe Node.
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All VIC mezzanine cards also provide I/O connections from the X410c M7 compute node to the X440p PCIe node.
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Security: The server supports an optional trusted platform module (TPM). Additional features include a secure boot FPGA and ACT2 anti-counterfeit provisions.
Cisco UCS VIC Cards
Following Cisco UCS VIC Cards are supported from release 4.3(2c) onwards:
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Cisco UCS VIC 15427—The Cisco UCS VIC 15427 is a Quad Port CNA MLOM, 4 x 10/25/50G with Secure Boot for Cisco UCS C-Series M6 and M7 servers.
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Cisco UCS VIC 15230—The Cisco UCS VIC 15230 is a MLOM with Secure Boot for Cisco UCS X210c M6, X210c M7, and X410c M7 servers.
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Cisco UCS VIC 15237 mLOM—The Cisco UCS VIC 15237 mLOM is a MLOM, 2x40/100/200G with Secure Boot for Cisco UCS C-Series M6 and M7 servers.
New in Release 4.3(2b)
Cisco UCS X210c M7 Compute Node
The Cisco UCS X210c M7 Compute Node is the second generation of compute node to integrate into the Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System. It delivers performance, flexibility, and optimization for deployments in data centers, in the cloud, and at remote sites. This enterprise-class server offers market-leading performance, versatility, and density without compromise for workloads. Up to eight compute nodes can reside in the 7-rack-unit (7RU) Cisco UCSX-9508 Chassis, offering one of the highest densities of compute, I/O, and storage per rack unit in the industry.
The Cisco UCS X210c M7 Compute Node provides these main features:
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CPU: Up to 2x 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors with up to 60 cores per processor and up to 2.625 MB Level 3 cache per core and up to 112.5 MB per CPU.
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Memory: Up to 8TB of main memory with 32x 256 GB DDR5-4800 DIMMs.
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Storage: Up to six hot-pluggable, solid-state drives (SSDs), or non-volatile memory express (NVMe) 2.5-inch drives with a choice of enterprise-class redundant array of independent disks (RAIDs) or passthrough controllers, up to two M.2 SATA and M.2 NVMe drives with optional hardware RAID.
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Optional front mezzanine GPU module: The Cisco UCS front mezzanine GPU module is a passive PCIe Gen 4.0 front mezzanine option with support for up to two U.2 NVMe drives and two HHHL GPUs.
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mLOM virtual interface cards:
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Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 15420 occupies the server's modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) slot, enabling up to 50 Gbps of unified fabric connectivity to each of the chassis intelligent fabric modules (IFMs) for 100 Gbps connectivity per server.
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◦ Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 15231 occupies the server's modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) slot, enabling up to 100 Gbps of unified fabric connectivity to each of the chassis intelligent fabric modules (IFMs) for 100 Gbps connectivity per server.
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Optional mezzanine card:
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Cisco UCS 5th Gen Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 15422 can occupy the server's mezzanine slot at the bottom rear of the chassis. This card's I/O connectors link to Cisco UCS X-Fabric technology. An included bridge card extends this VIC's 2x 50 Gbps of network connections through IFM connectors, bringing the total bandwidth to 100 Gbps per fabric (for a total of 200 Gbps per server).
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Cisco UCS PCI Mezz card for X-Fabric can occupy the server's mezzanine slot at the bottom rear of the chassis. This card's I/O connectors link to Cisco UCS X-Fabric modules and enable connectivity to the Cisco UCS X440p PCIe Node.
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All VIC mezzanine cards also provide I/O connections from the X210c M7 compute node to the X440p PCIe Node.
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Security: The server supports an optional trusted platform module (TPM). Additional features include a secure boot FPGA and ACT2 anti-counterfeit provisions.
Cisco UCS X210c M6 Compute Node
The Cisco UCS X210c M6 Compute Node is the first computing device to integrate into the Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System. Up to eight compute nodes can reside in the 7-Rack-Unit (7RU) Cisco UCS X9508 Chassis, offering one of the highest densities of compute, I/O, and storage per rack unit in the industry.
The Cisco UCS X210c M6 Compute Node provides these main features:
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CPU: Up to 2x 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors with up to 40 cores per processor and 1.5 MB Level 3 cache per core
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Memory: Up to 32x 256 GB DDR4-3200 DIMMs for up to 8 TB of main memory. Configuring up to 16x 512-GB Intel Optane™ persistent memory DIMMs can yield up to 12 TB of memory.
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Storage: Up to 6 hot-pluggable, solid-state drives (SSDs), or non-volatile memory express (NVMe) 2.5-inch drives with a choice of enterprise-class redundant array of independent disks (RAIDs) or pass-through controllers with four lanes each of PCIe Gen 4 connectivity and up to 2 M.2 SATA drives for flexible boot and local storage capabilities
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Optional front mezzanine GPU module: The Cisco UCS Front Mezzanine GPU module is a passive PCIe Gen 4 front mezzanine option with support for up to two U.2 NVMe drives and two GPUs.
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mLOM virtual interface cards:
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Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 14425 occupies the server's modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) slot, enabling up to 50 Gbps of unified fabric connectivity to each of the chassis intelligent fabric modules (IFMs) for 100 Gbps connectivity per server.
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Cisco UCS VIC 15231 occupies the server's modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) slot, enabling up to 100 Gbps of unified fabric connectivity to each of the chassis intelligent fabric modules (IFMs) for 100 Gbps connectivity per server.
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Cisco UCS VIC 15420 occupies the server's modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) slot, enabling up to 100 Gbps of unified fabric connectivity to each of the chassis intelligent fabric modules (IFMs) for 100 Gbps connectivity per server.
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Optional mezzanine card:
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Cisco UCS VIC 14825 can occupy the server's mezzanine slot at the bottom rear of the chassis. This card's I/O connectors link to Cisco UCS X-Fabric technology. An included bridge card extends this VIC's 2x 50 Gbps of network connections through IFM connectors, bringing the total bandwidth to 100 Gbps per fabric (for a total of 200 Gbps per server).
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Cisco UCS VIC 15422 X-Series mezz (UCSX-ME-V5Q50G) 4x25G can occupy the server's mezzanine slot at the bottom rear of the chassis. This card's I/O connectors link to Cisco UCS X-Fabric technology. An included bridge card extends this VIC's 2x 50 Gbps of network connections through IFM connectors, bringing the total bandwidth to 100 Gbps per fabric (for a total of 200 Gbps per server).
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Cisco UCS PCI Mezz card for X-Fabric can occupy the server's mezzanine slot at the bottom rear of the chassis. This card's I/O connectors link to Cisco UCS X-Fabric modules and enable connectivity to the X440p PCIe Node.
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Security: The server supports an optional trusted platform module (TPM). Additional features include a secure boot FPGA and ACT2 anti-counterfeit provisions
Cisco UCS 245 M8 Server
The UCS C245 M8 SFF server extends the capabilities of Cisco’s Unified Computing System portfolio in a 2U form factor with the addition of the AMD CPUs, 12 DIMM slots per CPU for 4800 MT/s DDR5 DIMMs with individual DIMM capacity points up to 256 GB. The maximum memory capacity for 2 CPUs is 6 TB (for 24 x 256 GB DDR5 DIMMs). The Cisco UCS C245 M8 offers Up to 2x 4th Generation AMD Processors with up to 128 cores per processors, 24 DIMM slots (12 DIMMs per CPU socket), up to 4800 MT/s DDR5, Up to 6 TB of capacity. Cisco 24G Tri-mode RAID controller with cache backup to control SAS/SATA/NVMe drives
The Cisco UCS C245 M8 server can be used standalone, or as part of the Cisco Unified Computing System, which unifies computing, networking, management, virtualization, and storage access into a single integrated architecture enabling end-to-end server visibility, management, and control in both bare metal and virtualized environments.
Cisco UCS C240 M7 Server
The Cisco UCS C240 M7 Server is well-suited for a wide range of storage and I/O-intensive applications such as big data analytics, databases, collaboration, virtualization, consolidation, and high-performance computing in its two-socket, 2RU form factor. It incorporates the 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors with up to 60 cores per socket.
In addition to the advanced features, the server is also equipped with the PCIe Gen 5.0 for high-speed I/O, a DDR5 memory bus, and expanded storage capabilities (up to 32 DDR5 DIMMs for up to 8 TB of capacity using 128 GB DIMMs (16 DIMMs per socket)) and delivers sigficant performance and efficiency gains that will improve your application performance.
You can deploy the Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers as standalone servers or as part of the Cisco Unified Computing System managed by Cisco Intersight or Intersight Managed Mode.
Cisco UCS C220 M7 Server
The Cisco UCS C220 M7 Server is a versatile general-purpose infrastructure and application server. This high-density, 1RU, 2-socket rack server delivers industry-leading performance and efficiency for a wide range of workloads, including virtualization, collaboration, and bare-metal applications. It incorporates the 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors, with up to 52 cores per socket. With advanced features such as Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX), Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), and QuickAssist Technology (QAT), the server offers significant performance improvements.
In addition to the advanced features, the server is also equipped with the PCIe Gen 5.0 for high-speed I/O, a DDR5 memory bus, and expanded storage capabilities (up to 32 DDR5 DIMMs for up to 4 TB of capacity using 128 GB DIMMs (16 DIMMs per socket)).
You can deploy the Cisco UCS C-Series rack servers as standalone servers or as part of the Cisco Unified Computing System™ with the Cisco Intersight Infrastructure Service cloud-based management platform. These computing innovations help reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and increase their business agility. These improvements deliver significant performance and efficiency gains that improve your application performance.
Intelligent Fabric Module (IFM for Cisco UCS X-Series Servers)
Beginning with release 4.3(2a), Cisco UCS Manager supports Cisco UCS X9508 server chassis with Cisco UCS X-Series servers. Cisco UCS X-Series servers support Intelligent Fabric Modules (IFM), which function similarly to the Input/Output Module (IOM) in Cisco UCS B-Series servers. This guide uses the term IOM to refer both IOM and IFM.
New Cisco UCS VIC Cards
Following new Cisco VIC cards are supported in this release:
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Cisco UCS VIC 15425
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Cisco UCS VIC 15235
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Cisco UCS VIC 15420
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Cisco UCS VIC 15231
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Cisco UCS VIC 14425
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Cisco UCS VIC 15422
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Cisco UCS VIC 14825