High Performance and Internal Storage

The Cisco UCS C420 M3 Rack Server is a high-density, enterprise-class, four-socket, two-rack-unit (2RU) rack server designed for compute, I/O, storage, and memory-intensive standalone and virtualized applications. The addition of the Intel^® Xeon^® processor E5-4600 product family delivers an optimal combination of performance, flexibility, and efficiency gains.

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Features and Capabilities

The Cisco UCS C420 M3 offers up to 1.5 TB of RAM, 16 drives, and four 1-GbE LAN interfaces built into the motherboard. This provides outstanding levels of internal memory and storage expandability, along with exceptional performance.

Suitable for nearly all memory-intensive, storage-intensive, four-socket applications
Unique Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1225: A dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe adapter that can support up to 256 PCIe standards-compliant virtual interfaces
Exceptional building block and entry point for the Cisco UCS
Continual innovations from Cisco in server technology and at all levels of the Cisco UCS

Specifications at a Glance

Up to four Intel Xeon E5-4600 processors
Up to 1.5 TB of RAM with 48 DIMM slots
up to 16 SAS, SATA, and SSDs for workloads demanding large internal storage
Seven PCI Express Generation 3 slots and four 1-GbE LAN interfaces on the motherboard
trusted platform module (TPM) for authentication and tool-less access

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