Cisco UCS B480 M5 Blade Server Data Sheet

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The Cisco UCS® B480 M5 Blade Server delivers market-leading performance, versatility, and density without compromise.

Cisco UCS® B480 M5 Blade Server

Product overview

The enterprise-class Cisco UCS® B480 M5 Blade Server delivers market-leading performance, versatility, and density without compromise for memory-intensive mission-critical enterprise applications and virtualized workloads, among others.

With the B480 M5, you can quickly deploy stateless physical and virtual workloads with the programmability that Cisco UCS Manager and Cisco® SingleConnect technology enable. Customers gain support for Intel® Xeon® scalable processors, higher density 256G DDR4 DIMMs, new second-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, and the new Intel® Optane DC Persistent Memory. Additionally, these B480 M5 servers offer up to 12 Terabytes (TB) of DDR4 memory or 18 TB using 24x256G DDR4 DIMMs and 24x512G Intel® Optane DC Persistent Memory; four SAS, SATA, and NVMe drives; M.2 storage; up to four GPUs and 160 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for I/O throughput, all leading to exceptional performance, flexibility, and I/O throughput to run your most demanding applications.

The B480 M5 is a full-width blade server supported by the Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis. The 5108 chassis and the Cisco B-Series Blade Servers provide inherent architectural advantages:

     Through Cisco UCS, gives you the architectural advantage of not having to power, cool, manage, and purchase excess switches (management, storage, and networking), Host Bus Adapters (HBAs), and Network Interface Cards (NICS) in each blade chassis

     Reduces the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by removing management modules from the chassis, making the chassis stateless

     Provides a single, highly available Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) management domain for all system chassis and rack servers, reducing administrative tasks

Exceptional expandability

The Cisco UCS B480 M5 Blade Server delivers flexibility, density, and expandability in a 4-socket, full-width form factor for enterprise and mission-critical applications. It offers:

     Four new second-generation Intel® Xeon® scalable CPUs (up to 28 cores per socket)

     Four existing Intel® Xeon® Scalable CPUs (up to 28 cores per socket)

     Support for higher density DDR4 memory, from 6 TB (128G DDR4 DIMMs) to 12 TB (256G DDR4 DIMMs)

     Memory speeds increase from 2666 MHz to 2933 MHz

     Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Modules (DCPMM) – 128G, 256G, and 512G[1]

     Up to 18 TB using 24x256G DDR4 DIMMs and 24x512G Intel® Optane DC Persistent Memory Modules

     Cisco FlexStorage storage subsystem

     Five mezzanine adapters and support for up to four NVIDIA GPUs

     Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1340 modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) and upcoming fourth-generation VIC mLOM

     Internal Secure Digital (SD) and M.2 boot options

Product specifications

Table 1 lists the specifications for the Cisco UCS B480 M5 Blade Server.

Table 1.           Specifications

Item

Specifications

 

Form factor

  Full-width blade server mounts in a Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis
  Up to 4 Cisco UCS B480 M5 Blade Servers can be installed per blade server chassis

 

Processors

Four Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and second generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors

 

Memory

48 DDR4 DIMM slots: 16, 32, 64, 128, and 256 GB up to 2933 DDR4 DIMMs

 

Mezzanine slots

5 PCIe 3.0 mezzanine slots:

  1 slot supports the Cisco UCS VIC 1340 adapter only
  2 mezzanine-card slots support Cisco adapters, Cisco UCS storage accelerators, and GPUs
  2 front mezzanine slots support NVIDIA GPUs

 

Storage controller

  Diskless system (no drive bays or RAID controller), or
  Cisco FlexStorage 12-Gbps SAS RAID controller with Hard-Disk-Drive (HDD) cage, providing up to 12-Gbps SAS connectivity
  Cisco FlexStorage 12-Gbps SAS RAID controller with 2-GB cache, Flash-Backed Write Cache (FBWC), and HDD cage, providing up to 12-Gbps SAS connectivity
  Cisco FlexStorage PCI Express (PCIe) Solid-State Disk (SSD) and pass through module with HDD cage

 

Storage devices

Up to 4 optional, front-accessible, hot-swappable 2.5-inch Small Form Factor (SFF) SAS or SATA HDDs, SSDs, and PCIe NVMe drives

 

Other storage

  Dual internal Cisco FlexFlash SD cards (32, 64, and 128 GB) for installing an operating system or hypervisor; the second SD card can be used to mirror the first
  Dual M.2 SATA SSD (240, 480, and 960 GB)

Management

 

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

UCS Manager

3.2(1) or above

Cisco IMC

3.1(2) or above

Ordering information

For ordering information, see the Cisco UCS B480 M5 Blade Server specification sheet.

For information about installing or upgrading your server, see the Cisco UCS B480 M5 hardware installation guide.

Warranty information

Cisco UCS B480 Blade Servers have a 3-year Next-Business-Day (NBD) hardware warranty and 90-day software warranty.

Augmenting the Cisco UCS warranty, Cisco Smart Net Total Care and Cisco Solution Support services are part of Cisco's technical services portfolio. Cisco Smart Net Total Care combines Cisco's industry-leading and award-winning foundational technical services with an extra level of actionable business intelligence that is delivered to you through the smart capabilities in the Cisco Smart Net Total Care portal. For more information, please refer to https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/services/smart-net-total-care/index.html.

Solution Support includes both Cisco product support and solution-level support, resolving complex issues in multivendor environments on average 43 percent more quickly than with product support alone. Solution Support is a critical element in data center administration, helping rapidly resolve any issue encountered while maintaining performance, reliability, and return on investment.

This service centralizes support across your multivendor Cisco environment for both our products and solution partner products you’ve deployed in your ecosystem. Whether there is an issue with a Cisco or solution partner product, just call us. Our experts are the primary point of contact and own the case from first call to resolution. For more information, please refer to https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/services/technical/solution-support.html.

Product environmental information

Product environmental information for users per Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/424 https://www.cisco.com/web/dofc/22293074.pdf

Product Reuse, Repair and Recycling Information (EU WEEE Directive) https://www.cisco.com/web/dofc/18799434.pdf.

Product Recyclability Report (EPEAT / NSF 426) https://www.cisco.com/web/dofc/19614513.pdf.

Cisco Customer Recycling Solutions

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/product-innovation-stewardship/product-recycling/takeback-recycle-program.html.

Cisco and Partner Services

Cisco and our industry-leading partners deliver services that accelerate your transition to a Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers solution. Cisco Unified Computing Services can help you create an agile infrastructure, accelerate time to value, reduce costs and risks, and maintain availability during deployment and migration. After deployment, our services can help you improve performance, availability, and resiliency as your business needs evolve and help you further mitigate risk. For more information, visit https://www.cisco.com/go/unifiedcomputingservices.

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[1] Requires a DDR4 DIMM for deployment (e.g. 12 Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Modules require 12 DDR4 DIMMs). The sizes of DCPMM must be the same and the DDR4 DIMMS must the same. But between the DCPMM and DIMMs, the sizes may vary, as shown in the 18-TB configuration described earlier in this data sheet.

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