Cisco UCS Mini

Cisco UCS Mini: Edge Scale Solutions

Cisco UCS Mini is optimized for branch and remote offices, point-of-sale locations, and smaller IT environments. It is the ideal solution for customers who need fewer servers but still want the comprehensive management capabilities provided by Cisco UCS Manager. Cisco UCS Mini delivers servers, storage, and 10-Gigabit networking in an easy-to-deploy, compact form factor.

Features and Capabilities

Required Solution Components

Cisco UCS Mini supports a wide variety of Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers. You always start with one blade server. All supported servers can be mixed and matched to customize a Cisco UCS Mini solution for your specific needs and bare metal and/or virtual applications.

Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Server

Based on the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, this 2-socket half-width blade offers twice the memory and GPU support of the B200 M4 Blade server.

Cisco UCS B480 M5 Blade Server

The four socket B480 M5 blade server is the replacement for the B260 M4, B420 M4, and B460 M4 servers. Based on the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, The B480 M5 blade server offers up to 6 TB of memory and four GPUs.

Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server

The Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server delivers performance, expandability, and configurability for workloads ranging from web infrastructure to distributed databases. Take full advantage of the power of the Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 and v4 processor families with this server.

Cisco UCS B420 M4 Blade Server

This 4-socket server is designed for enterprise performance and virtualization, and database workloads that require scalability.

Cisco UCS B260 M4 Blade Server

This 2-socket server provides leading performance and stability for memory-intensive workloads such as database, in-memory analytics, and large scale VM consolidation.

Cisco UCS B460 M4 Blade Server

This 4-socket server provides outstanding performance and stability for memory-intensive workloads.

Every Cisco UCS Mini solution includes:

• Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis: accommodating up to eight half-width or four full-width blade servers form factors in the same chassis
• Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric Interconnect: providing unified server, networking, and storage capabilities embedded in the chassis
• Cisco UCS Manager: offering embedded management of all software and hardware components

Optional Solution Components

A variety of rack servers and software can be added to a Cisco UCS Mini solution to enhance capabilities for storage, specialized IO requirements, and global management.

Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers

Cisco UCS C220 M5 Rack Server: Deploy one of the most versatile, high-density, general-purpose infrastructure and application servers in the industry today.

Cisco UCS C240 M5 Rack Server: Get industry-leading performance for the most data-intensive workloads, including big data, virtualization, and bare-metal applications.

Cisco UCS C220 M4 Rack Server: A high-density, general-purpose infrastructure and application server based on the Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 series of processors.

Cisco UCS C240 M4 Rack Server: Get industry-leading performance for the most data-intensive workloads, including big data, virtualization, and bare-metal applications.

Software

Cisco UCS Central

Use this software to manage multiple Cisco UCS Mini and Cisco UCS domains.

Cisco Intersight

Cisco Intersight is a SaaS offering which simplifies and automates IT operations management (ITOM) to make daily activities easier and more efficient.