Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Server Data Sheet

For remote sites or data centers, the enterprise-class Cisco UCS^® B200 M5 Blade Server delivers market-leading performance, versatility, and density without compromise for workloads ranging from web infrastructure to distributed databases.

Product overview

The Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Server 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 including Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), web infrastructure, distributed databases, converged infrastructure, and enterprise applications such as Oracle and SAP HANA. The B200 M5 server can quickly deploy stateless physical and virtual workloads through programmable, easy-to-use Cisco UCS Manager software and simplified server access through Cisco SingleConnect technology. It includes:

●   Latest Intel^® Xeon^® Scalable processors with up to 28 cores per socket

●   Up to 24 DDR4 DIMMs for improved performance

●   Up to 2 GPUs

●   Up to 2 Small Form Factor (SFF) drives

●   Up to 2 SD cards or M.2 SATA drives

●   Up to 80 Gbps of I/O throughput

Main features

The Cisco UCS B200 M5 server is a half-width blade. Up to eight servers can reside in the 6-Rack-Unit (6RU) Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis, offering one of the highest densities of servers per rack unit of blade chassis in the industry. You can configure the B200 M5 to meet your local storage requirements without having to buy, power, and cool components that you do not need.

The B200 M5 provides these main features:

●   Up to two Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs with up to 28 cores per CPU

●   24 DIMM slots for industry-standard DDR4 memory at speeds up to 2666 MHz, with up to 3 TB of total memory when using 128-GB DIMMs

●   Modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) card with Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1340, a 2-port, 40-gigabit Ethernet (GE), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)–capable mLOM mezzanine adapter

●   Optional rear mezzanine VIC with two 40-Gbps unified I/O ports or two sets of 4 x 10-Gbps unified I/O ports, delivering 80 Gbps to the server; adapts to either 10- or 40-Gbps fabric connections

●   Two optional, hot-pluggable, Hard Disk Drives (HDDs), Solid-State Drives (SSDs), or Nonvolatile Memory Express (NVMe) 2.5-inch drives with a choice of enterprise-class Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) or pass-through controllers

●   Support for Optional SD Card or M.2 SATA drives for flexible boot and local storage capabilities

●   Support for up to 2 optional GPUs

●   Support for one rear storage mezzanine card

●   Support for one 16-GB internal flash USB drive

Product specifications

Table 1 lists the specifications for the Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Server.

Table 1.       Specifications

System requirements

Table 2 lists system requirements for the server.

Table 2.       System requirements

Ordering information

Table 3 provides ordering information for the Cisco UCS B200 M5.

Table 3.       Ordering information

For information about installing or upgrading your server, see the Cisco UCS B200 M5 hardware installation guide.

For ordering information, see the Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Server specification sheet.

Warranty information

Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Servers have a 3-year Next-Business-Day (NBD) hardware warranty and 90-day software warranty.

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Cisco and partner services

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