Cisco UCSC-C240-M5S Server
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The Cisco UCS C240 M5 Rack Server is a versatile, high-performance platform designed to handle a wide range of enterprise-level workloads. As part of the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) portfolio, this server is engineered to balance performance, storage capacity, and I/O expandability, making it an ideal choice for businesses looking to optimize their data center infrastructure.
By leveraging the power of the Intel Xeon Scalable processors, the C240 M5 provides the necessary computational muscle to support demanding applications. It is built to integrate seamlessly into existing Cisco environments, offering simplified management through Cisco Intersight and UCS Manager, which helps IT teams reduce operational complexity and improve overall system reliability.
Product overview
The Cisco UCS C240 M5 is a two-socket, 2-rack-unit (2RU) server that offers exceptional flexibility for various deployment scenarios. It is specifically designed to support diverse use cases, including big data analytics, virtualization, collaboration, and high-performance storage applications. The architecture allows for significant scalability, ensuring that organizations can grow their infrastructure alongside their evolving business needs.
In terms of hardware configuration, the server supports a massive amount of memory and storage, providing the density required for modern data centers. It features a modular design that allows for easy upgrades and maintenance, minimizing downtime. Whether deployed as a standalone server or as part of a larger UCS managed environment, the C240 M5 delivers consistent performance and robust security features to protect critical business data.
Features and benefits
- High-Performance Computing: Powered by the latest Intel Xeon Scalable processors, delivering significant improvements in core count and performance compared to previous generations.
- Massive Memory Capacity: Supports up to 24 DDR4 DIMM slots, allowing for high-speed data processing and the ability to run memory-intensive applications with ease.
- Flexible Storage Options: Offers a wide range of storage configurations, including support for up to 26 hot-swappable small-form-factor (SFF) drives, providing high capacity and fast access to data.
- Advanced I/O Expandability: Features multiple PCIe 3.0 slots, enabling the integration of various network interface cards, RAID controllers, and GPUs to meet specific workload requirements.
- Simplified Management: Fully compatible with Cisco Intersight and UCS Manager, which streamlines deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of the server infrastructure.
- Enhanced Security: Includes built-in security features such as Cisco’s Trusted Platform Module (TPM) and secure boot capabilities to ensure the integrity of the system and data.
- Energy Efficiency: Designed with power-efficient components and advanced cooling management to help reduce operational costs and environmental impact.
The Cisco UCS C240 M5 Rack Server delivers industry-leading performance and expandability.
Product overview
The Cisco UCS C240 M5 Rack Server is a 2-socket, 2-Rack-Unit (2RU) rack server offering industry-leading performance and expandability. It supports a wide range of storage and I/O-intensive infrastructure workloads, from big data and analytics to collaboration. Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers can be deployed as standalone servers or as part of a Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) managed environment to take advantage of Cisco’s standards-based unified computing innovations that help reduce customers’ Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and increase their business agility.
In response to ever-increasing computing and data-intensive real-time workloads, the enterprise-class Cisco UCS C240 M5 server extends the capabilities of the Cisco UCS portfolio in a 2RU form factor. It incorporates the Intel Xeon Scalable processors, supporting up to 20 percent more cores per socket, twice the memory capacity, and five times more.
Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) PCI Express (PCIe) Solid-State Disks (SSDs) compared to the previous generation of servers. These improvements deliver significant performance and efficiency gains that will improve your application performance. The C240 M5 delivers outstanding levels of storage expandability with exceptional performance, with:
The latest second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs, with up to 28 cores per socket
● Supports the first-generation Intel Xeon Scalable CPU, with up to 28 cores per socket
● Support for the Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory (128G, 256G, 512G) [1]
● Up to 24 DDR4 DIMMs for improved performance including higher density DDR4 DIMMs
● Up to 26 hot-swappable Small-Form-Factor (SFF) 2.5-inch drives, including 2 rear hot-swappable SFF drives (up to 10 support NVMe PCIe SSDs on the NVMe-optimized chassis version), or 12 Large-Form-Factor (LFF) 3.5-inch drives plus 2 rear hot-swappable SFF drives
● Support for 12-Gbps SAS modular RAID controller in a dedicated slot, leaving the remaining PCIe Generation 3.0 slots available for other expansion cards
● Modular LAN-On-Motherboard (mLOM) slot that can be used to install a Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) without consuming a PCIe slot, supporting dual 10- or 40-Gbps network connectivity
● Dual embedded Intel x550 10GBASE-T LAN-On-Motherboard (LOM) ports
● Modular M.2 or Secure Digital (SD) cards that can be used for boot
High performance for data-intensive applications
The Cisco UCS C240 M5 rack server is well-suited for a wide range of enterprise workloads, including:
● Big data and analytics
● Collaboration
● Small and medium-sized business databases
● Virtualization and consolidation
● Storage servers
● High-performance appliances
C240 M5 servers can be deployed as standalone servers or in a Cisco UCS managed environment. When used in combination with Cisco UCS Manager, the C240 M5 brings the power and automation of unified computing to enterprise applications, including Cisco SingleConnect technology, drastically reducing switching and cabling requirements.
Cisco UCS Manager uses service profiles, templates, and policy-based management to enable rapid deployment and help ensure deployment consistency. If also enables end-to-end server visibility, management, and control in both virtualized and bare-metal environments.
The Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) delivers comprehensive out-of-band server management with support for many industry standards, including:
● Redfish Version 1.01 (v1.01)
● Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) v2.0
● Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v2 and v3
● Syslog
● Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
● Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP)
● HTML5 GUI
● HTML5 virtual Keyboard, Video, and Mouse (vKVM)
● Command-Line Interface (CLI)
● XML API
Management Software Development Kits (SDKs) and DevOps integrations exist for Python, Microsoft PowerShell, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and more. For more information about integrations, see Cisco DevNet (https://developer.cisco.com/site/ucs-dev-center/).
The C240 M5 is Cisco Intersight ready. Cisco Intersight is a new cloud-based management platform that uses analytics to deliver proactive automation and support. By combining intelligence with automated actions, you can reduce costs dramatically and resolve issues more quickly.
Product specifications
Table 1 lists the specifications for the Cisco UCS C240 M5 Rack Server.
Table 1. Specifications
| Item |
Specifications |
| Form factor |
2RU rack server |
| Processors |
Intel Xeon Scalable processors (1 or 2) or second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors |
| Memory |
24 DDR4 DIMM slots: 8, 16, 32, 64, and 128 GB and up to 2666 MHz Support for the Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory (128G, 256G, 512G) |
| PCIe expansion |
6 PCIe 3.0 slots plus 1 dedicated 12-Gbps RAID controller slot and 1 dedicated mLOM slot |
| RAID controllers |
● Internal controllers: Cisco 12-Gbps Modular RAID Controller (PCIe 3.0) with 2- or 4-GB Flash-Backed Write Cache (FBWC), providing enterprise-class data protection for up to 26 SAS and SATA Hard Disk Drives (HDDs), SSDs, or NVMe PCIe SSDs; or Cisco 12-Gbps Modular SAS Host Bus Adapter (HBA)
● External controller: Cisco 12-Gbps 9400-8e SAS HBA
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| Internal storage |
Backplane options:
● Up to 26 x 2.5-inch SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs and up to 4 NVMe PCIe drives
● Up to 10 x 2.5-inch NVMe PCIe and 16 SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs
● Up to 12 x 3.5-inch SAS and SATA HDDs and SSDs, and 2 rear 2.5-inch HDDs and SSDs and up to 4 NVMe PCIe drives
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| Embedded Network Interface Cards (NICs) |
Dual 10GBASE-T Intel x550 Ethernet ports |
| mLOM |
Dedicated mLOM slot that can flexibly accommodate 1-, 10-, 25-, 40-, and 100-Gbps adapters |
| Power supplies |
Hot-pluggable, redundant 770W AC, 1050W AC, 1050W DC, and 1600W AC |
| Other storage |
● Dual internal Cisco FlexFlash SD cards (32, 64, and 128 GB) for installing an operating system or hypervisor
● Support for RAID 0 mirroring between SD cards
● Dedicated Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) MicroSD card (32 GB) for server utilities
● Dual M.2 SATA SSD or NVMe
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| Management |
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| Rack options |
Cisco ball-bearing rail kit with optional reversible cable management farm |
| Hardware and software interoperability |
See the Cisco Hardware and Software Interoperability List for a complete listing of supported operating systems and peripheral options. |
System requirements
Table 2 lists system requirements for the server.
Table 2. System Requirements
| Item |
Requirements |
| Cisco UCS Manager (optional) |
Release 3.2(1) or later |
| Cisco IMC |
Release 3.1(1) or later |
Ordering information
For information about installing or upgrading your server, see the Cisco UCS C240 M5 Rack Server hardware installation guide.
For ordering information, see:
● Cisco UCS C240 M5 SFF rack server specifications sheet
● Cisco UCS C240 M5 LFF rack server specifications sheet
For more information
For more information about Cisco UCS servers, refer to https://www.cisco.com/go/ucs.
| Model | UCSC-C240-M5S-RF |