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Cisco® Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix accelerates and simplifies the delivery of infrastructure and applications, at a global scale, through best-in-class cloud-operating models, industry-leading flexibility, and enhanced support and resiliency capabilities so you can power your hybrid multicloud future with the industry’s most complete hyperconverged solution.
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix
Cisco and Nutanix have partnered to introduce the IT industry’s most complete hyperconverged solution by integrating and validating Cisco servers, storage, networking, and SaaS operations with the Nutanix hybrid multicloud platform. Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix is built, managed, and supported holistically to deliver a more seamless experience, foster innovation, and accelerate customers’ hybrid-cloud journeys.
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged C220 M7 Node family
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged C220 M7 Node family delivers performance, flexibility, and resiliency in a small footprint. Physically, nodes are deployed into clusters, with a cluster consisting of one or more Cisco Compute Hyperconverged C220 M7 All-Flash servers.
These servers can be interconnected and managed in two different ways:
● UCS Managed mode: The nodes are connected to a pair of Cisco UCS® 6400 Series or a pair of Cisco UCS 6500 Series fabric interconnects and managed as a single system using UCS Manager. The minimum number of nodes in such a cluster is three. These clusters can support both general-purpose deployments and mission-critical high-performance environments.
● Intersight Standalone mode: The nodes are connected to a pair of Top-of-Rack (ToR) switches and servers are centrally managed using Cisco Intersight®. While a minimum of three nodes are required to deploy a standard Nutanix cluster, we also offer an option to deploy a single-node cluster and a two-node cluster for Edge and branch locations and situations that already have a high-performance network fabric installed. Refer to the Cisco spec sheets for further detail on the use of 1-node and 2-node Nutanix clusters.
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged C220 M7 All-Flash with Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors are excellent for a wide range of enterprise workloads, including cloud computing, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), databases, and server virtualization.
Table 1. Summary of features and benefits of Cisco Compute Hyperconverged C220 M7 All-Flash Node
| Feature |
Benefits |
|
| Memory |
● High memory capacity
● Up to 4 TB memory (32 x 128 GB DDR5 DIMMs)
|
|
| 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors |
● 10-nanometer (nm) processor technology
● Massive processing power with up to 60 cores per socket
● Larger L2 and L3 cache
● Increased I/O Bandwidth with PCIe 5.0
● High-speed DDR5 memory technology for up to 4800 MT/s
● Multiple built-in accelerators for new functional capabilities across AI, analytics, security, and storage
● Platform level power savings to deliver sustainability goals
|
|
| Unified network fabric (Optional) |
● Low-latency, up to 8 x 10/25/50 Gigabit Ethernet connections or up to 4 x 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet connections
● Wire-once deployment model, eliminating the need to install adapters and re-cable racks and switches when changing I/O configurations
● Fewer interface cards, cables, and upstream network ports to purchase, power, configure, and maintain
|
|
| Cloud-based services and management |
Cisco Intersight® simplifies infrastructure operations across on-premises data centers, edge sites, and public clouds
● Use a software-as-a-service platform that bridges applications with infrastructure
● Correlate visibility and management across bare-metal servers, hypervisors, and application components
● Transform operations with artificial intelligence to reach needed scale and velocity
|
Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) includes Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Nutanix Cloud Management (NCM), and desktop services:
● NCI unifies compute, storage, and network, hypervisors and containers, in public or enterprise clouds
● NCM offers customers simplicity and ease of use to build and grow their cloud deployments and realize rapid ROI, by providing intelligent operations, self- service and orchestration, visibility and governance
● Desktop services offer hybrid-cloud infrastructure capabilities for on-premises Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) use cases.
|
| Storage |
● All-flash
configurations
◦ Deliver high-capacity configurations for the Cisco Compute Hyperconverged platform capacity layer
● Nutanix
Unified
Storage
provides
software-defined,
scale-out
storage
solutions
for
enterprise
Network Attached Storage (NAS) and
object
workloads
for
unstructured
data,
block
storage
for
structured
data,
and
backup
storage
|
|
| Enterprise data protection |
● Synchronous
and
near-synchronous
replication
with
option
to
use
runbook
automation
● Multisite
asynchronous
replication
for
disaster
recovery
● Deduplication
and
compression
● Disaster
recovery
in
cloud
with
Nutanix
cloud
clusters
|
|
| Security |
● Data-at-rest
encryption
using
self-encrypting
drives
and
enterprise
key
management
integration
● Trusted
Platform
Module
(TPM),
a
chip
(microcontroller)
that
can
securely
store
artifacts, including passwords, certificates, and encryption keys, which are used to authenticate the platform (node). Supports TPM 2.0
● Software
based
data-at-rest
encryption
and
micro-segmentation
|
|
| Software |
● Management software: Cisco Intersight, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Nutanix Cloud Management (NCM), desktop services
● Storage software: AOS Storage, Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) - for files, objects, and volumes use cases
● Hypervisor: Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) and VMware vSphere
|
|
Table 2. Common specifications for Cisco Compute Hyperconverged C220 M7 All Flash Node
| Feature |
Common specifications across the Cisco Compute Hyperconverged C220 M7 node family |
| Chassis |
● 1RU
of
rack
space
per
node
|
| Processors |
● One
or
two
4
th Gen
Intel
Xeon
Scalable
Processors (Sapphire Rapids)
|
| Chip set |
● Intel
C741
series
|
| Memory |
● 32
DDR5
DIMM slots:
16,
32,
64 and
128
GB
up to
4800 MT/s
● 4
TB
using
32
x
128-GB
DDR5 DIMMs
● 50% peak bandwidth increase over DDR4-3200, with on-die ECC; all densities are Registered DIMMs (RDIMMs)
|
| Storage |
● Specific
drive
options
are
available
for
Cisco
Compute
Hyperconverged
C220
nodes:
● C220
All
Flash
Node:
1.9
TB,
3.8
TB,
7.6 TB or 15.3 TB SSD
disks
(up
to
10
drives
per node)
● Dual
M.2
SATA SSDs
with
HW RAID
support
|
| PCIe |
● 3 PCIe 4.0 slots or up to 2 PCIe 5.0 slots plus 1 dedicated 12-Gbps RAID controller slot and 1 dedicated mLOM slot
|
| Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) |
● NVIDIA L4 GPU card (optional)
|
| Network |
● Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 15428 or 15238 or 15427 or 15237 (modular LAN on Motherboard)
● Quad 10/25/50 G or Dual 40/100 G Ethernet VIC (Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 15425 or 15235) (optional)
● Intel E810 dual- or quad-port Network Interface Card (Intersight Standalone Mode)
● Up to 256 I/O devices programmable on demand for hypervisor and virtual machine support
|
| Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) |
● Integrated Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
● Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) 2.0 compliant for management and control
● One 10/100/1000 Ethernet out-of-band management interface
● Command-line interface (CLI) and web GUI management tool for automated, lights-out management
● Keyboard, Video, and Mouse (KVM) console
|
| Advanced reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features |
● Robust reporting and analytics
● Hot-swappable, front-accessible drives
● Dual-redundant fans and hot-swappable, redundant power supplies for enterprise-class reliability and a convenient latching lid for easy access to internal server
● Tool-free CPU insertion, enabling processor upgrades and replacements with less risk of damage
● Tool-free access to all serviceable items, and color-coded indicators to guide users to hot-pluggable and serviceable items
● Non-disruptive rolling upgrades using Nutanix Life-Cycle Manager (LCM)
|
| Front-panel connector |
● 1 KVM console connector per node
(supplies 2 USB connectors, 1 VGA connector, and 1 serial connector)
|
| Front-panel locator LED |
● Helps direct administrators to specific servers in large data-center environments
|
| Additional rear connectors |
● 1 Gigabit Ethernet management port
● 1 RS-232 serial port (RJ45 connector)
● 1 Video Graphics Array (VGA) video port (DB15 connector)
● 2 USB 3.0 ports
|
| Power and cooling |
● One or two hot-pluggable power supplies
● Second power supply provides 1+1 redundancy
● 770W, 1200W, 1600W, or 2300W AC power supplies or 1050 DC power supply
● 8 hot-swappable fans for front to rear cooling
|
| Rail-kit options |
● Cisco ball-bearing rail kit with optional reversible cable-management arm
|
| Software |
● Management software: Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, Nutanix Cloud Management, desktop services
● Storage software: AOS Storage, Nutanix Unified Storage (files, objects, and volumes)
● Hypervisor: Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) and VMware vSphere
|
For a complete list of part numbers, refer to the Cisco Compute Hyperconverged C220 M7 All Flash specification sheet.
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Reference |
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Information on product-material-content laws and regulations |
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| Sustainability inquiries |
Contact: csr_inquiries@cisco.com |
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| New or Revised Topic |
Described In |
Date |
| Initial release |
Data Sheet |
December 2023 |
| Update for Intersight Standalone Mode |
Data Sheet |
February 2024 |