Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers

Data Sheets and Product Information

At-a-Glance

• Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Server At-a-Glance 08-Sep-2023 (PDF - 137 KB)
• Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory for Cisco Servers AAG 13-Feb-2023
• Cisco UCS B200 M6 Blade Server At-a-Glance 08-Apr-2021
• Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory for Cisco Servers At-A-Glance 22-Dec-2020
• Cisco UCS B200 Blade Server Ready2Ship Program - Customer Overview At-a-Glance 09-Oct-2020
• Cisco UCS B480 M5 Blade Server 18-Feb-2020
• Cisco Unified Computing System 12-Feb-2020
• Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Server 11-Feb-2020

Data Sheets

• Cisco UCS B420 M4 Blade Server Spec Sheet 17-Nov-2023 (PDF)
• Cisco UCS B200 M6 Blade Server Spec Sheet 06-Nov-2023 (PDF)
• Cisco UCS 6400 Series Fabric Interconnect Spec Sheet 10-Oct-2023 (PDF)
• Cisco UCS B420 M3 Blade Server Spec Sheet 05-Oct-2023 (PDF)
• Cisco Intersight Data Sheet 26-Sep-2023
• Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Server Spec Sheet 14-Sep-2023 (PDF)
• Cisco UCS B480 M5 Blade Server Spec Sheet 13-Sep-2023 (PDF)
• Cisco UCS B480 M5 Blade Server Data Sheet 25-Aug-2023
• Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1440 Data Sheet 07-Jul-2023
• Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1480 Data Sheet 07-Jul-2023
• Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server Spec Sheet 28-Jun-2023 (PDF)
• Cisco UCS 2400 Series Fabric Extenders 13-Apr-2023
• Cisco UCS 6200 Series Fabric Interconnect 04-Apr-2023 (PDF)
• Cisco UCS B200 M6 Blade Server Data Sheet 02-Dec-2022
• Cisco UCS C220/C240/B200 M5 Memory Guide 05-Oct-2022 (PDF)

End-of-Life and End-of-Sale Notices

• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco UCS M5 Blade Server (B480 M5) 01-Dec-2023
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Select UCS Accessories 28-Nov-2023
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco UCS M5 Blade Server (B200 M5) 02-May-2023
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco UCS Central Per Domain License 06-Mar-2023
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Select Unified Computing System Products for Brazil 28-Feb-2023
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Select Commvault, Veeam, VMWare Nvdia, MapR Software Resell 24-Jun-2022
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Select UCS Memory Products 14-Jun-2022
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Select Commvault, Veeam, VMWare Nvdia, MapR Software Resell 26-May-2022
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco UCS N20-6508 5108 Blade Server AC Power Supply 11-Apr-2022
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Select Cisco Unified Computing System OEM Software 06-Apr-2022
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Select Cisco RedHat and Cohesity SW Resell 08-Nov-2021
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis N20-C6508 09-Jun-2021
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Select Compute and Hyperflex System Bundles 16-Apr-2021
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Select Unified Computing Software 13-Apr-2021
• End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the Cisco Select Hortonworks Software Resell 10-Dec-2020

Q&A

• Cisco UCS M6 Servers with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon CPUs FAQ 06-Apr-2021
• Troubleshoot, Manage and Monitor Hard Disk Drive Medium Errors 22-Apr-2020

Security Notices

Bulletins

• Lithium Batteries Discontinued as Service Replacement Parts Product Bulletin 20-Mar-2017

Field Notices

• Applicable to Multiple Models

  • Field Notice: FN72187 - UCS 2408 IOM Upgrade/Downgrade Failure on Some Units Shipped in April 2021 - Replace on Failure 17-Nov-2023
  • Field Notice: FN70545 - SSD Will Fail at 40,000 Power-On Hours - BIOS/Firmware Upgrade Recommended 30-Jun-2023
  • Field Notice: FN - 72368 - Some DIMMs Might Fail Prematurely Due to a Manufacturing Deviation - Hardware Upgrade Available 21-Dec-2022
  • Field Notice: FN - 72225 - SSD Timeouts Might Cause IO Operations to Halt and Lead to Premature Failure of the Drive - BIOS/Firmware Upgrade Recommended 28-Sep-2021
  • Field Notice: FN - 63737 - UCS C-Series Rack Servers - 1 TB SATA HDD Crash - Replace on Failure 04-Feb-2019
  • Field Notice: FN - 63812 - Seagate 146/300/500GB and 1TB/2TB Hard Drives Might Not Respond Under Certain Conditions - BIOS/Firmware Upgrade Recommended 14-Jan-2019
  • Field Notice: FN - 63651 - UCS-B M3-Series Blade Servers Might Get Memory Errors Due to Voltage Regulator Setting - BIOS/Firmware Upgrade Recommended 22-May-2018
  • Field Notice: FN - 63939 - HDD Disabled Due to Automatic Firmware Downgrade - Configuration Change Recommended 22-May-2018
  • Field Notice: FN - 63499 - Disk Drive Contamination Causes Premature Failure - Replace on Failure 21-May-2018
  • Field Notice: FN - 64072 - Power Regulator on Specific LSI RAID Cards May Fail Prematurely - Replace on Failure 14-May-2018

• Cisco UCS B200 M4 Blade Server

  • Field Notice: FN - 64123 - B200-M4 with UCSB-MRAID12G Might Unexpectedly Reboot. Software Upgrade Recommended. 04-May-2016
• Field Notice: FN - 63472 - UCS B250 M2 Voltage Regulator Setting Causes Non-Recoverable Memory Errors - BIOS/Firmware Upgrade Recommended 19-Apr-2013

Security Advisories, Responses and Notices

• Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers Local Management CLI Arbitrary File Creation or CLI Parameter Injection Vulnerability 17-Apr-2019
• Multiple Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL Affecting Cisco Products: January and February 2017 30-Jan-2017
• Multiple Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL Affecting Cisco Products: September 2016 27-Sep-2016
• Multiple Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL Affecting Cisco Products: March 2016 02-Mar-2016
• Multiple Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL (January 2016) Affecting Cisco Products 29-Jan-2016
• Multiple Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL (December 2015) Affecting Cisco Products 04-Dec-2015
• Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers Denial of Service Vulnerability 06-Oct-2015
• Multiple Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL (June 2015) Affecting Cisco Products 12-Jun-2015
• Multiple Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL (January 2015) Affecting Cisco Products 10-Mar-2015

Multimedia

How-Tos

• Troubleshoot UCSM Partition Bootflash Errors Video 16-Jun-2023

Install and Upgrade

Install and Upgrade Guides

• Statement of Volatility for Cisco UCS Hardware 15-Apr-2021
• Cisco UCS B200 M6 Blade Server Installation and Service Note 12-Apr-2021
• Cisco UCS 5108 Server Chassis Installation Guide 18-Sep-2020
• Cisco UCS B480 M5 Blade Server Installation and Service Note 08-Sep-2020
• Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Server Installation and Service Note 08-Sep-2020
• Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server Installation and Service Note 28-Aug-2019
• Cisco UCS B260 M4 and B460 M4 Blade Server Installation and Service Note for Servers with E7 v4 CPUs 22-Aug-2019
• Cisco UCS B260 M4 and B460 M4 Scalable Blade Server Installation and Service Note 22-Aug-2019
• Regulatory Compliance and Safety Information—Cisco UCS B-Series 02-Aug-2019 (PDF - 4 MB)
• Cisco UCS B-Series M5 Servers Upgrade Guide for Second Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors 01-Apr-2019
• Cisco UCS B420 M4 Blade Server Installation and Service Note 22-May-2018
• Cisco UCS B260 M4 and B460 M4 Blade Server Installation and Service Note for Servers with E7 v4 CPUs 28-Nov-2017
• est_prod_replace_cpu_heatsink 18-Jul-2017
• Cisco UCS B200 M4 Server Upgrade Guide for E5-2600 v4 Series CPUs 14-Feb-2017
• Cisco UCS B420 M4 Server Upgrade Guide for E5-4600 v4 Series CPUs 13-Jul-2016

Install and Upgrade TechNotes

• Applicable to Multiple Models

  • UCS B-Series Servers: Replacing a RAID Controller with older firmware may cause the data-store mount to failure in ESXi hosts 10-Dec-2019
• Migrating Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect 6248 to 6332-16UP 10-Feb-2021

Configuration

Configuration Examples and TechNotes

• Cisco UCS B460 M4 Blade Server

  • Configure SUSE Linux - EMC VNX Storage for Native Linux Multipathing. 07-Apr-2016

• Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Server

  • Create Port Policy with Pin Groups for UCS Domain in IMM 28-Jul-2023
  • Configure Disjoint Layer 2 in UCS Manager 21-Jul-2023
• Configure JBOD Drives to Unconfigured Good in UCS Servers 26-Jun-2023
• Configure VMM Domain Integration with ACI and UCS B Series 23-Aug-2021
• Installing Operating Systems (VMware, Windows) with M.2 SSD's on UCS B200 M5 16-Jul-2021
• Configure DCPMM in Windows Server with AppDirect Mode 23-Dec-2020
• Configure DCPMM in VMware ESXi for AppDirect Mode 21-Dec-2020
• Configure Multicast on UCS 06-Feb-2020
• Configure Virtual Machine on UCS Blade Server as SPAN Destination 03-Oct-2018
• Configure an Ethernet traffic monitoring in Fabric Interconnect using GLC-T connector 28-Apr-2017
• Utilizing SoL logging for Serial Redirect on UCS 15-Mar-2016
• CIMC Inband Access on UCS-B Series Blades Configuration Example 08-Mar-2016
• Private VLAN and Cisco UCS Configuration Prior to 2.2(2C) 03-Mar-2016
• UCS IPv6 Management Configuration Example 06-Mar-2015
• VM-FEX with Hyper-V Configuration Example 25-Aug-2014
• Microsoft Network Load Balancing on UCS-B Series Servers Deployment Configuration Example 14-Aug-2014
• Windows 2012 NPIV on UCS Configuration Example 21-Jul-2014
• VM-FEX Configuration Example 22-Nov-2013

Configuration Guides

• Related Documentation

  • Release Notes for the VMWare ESXi Installable Cisco Custom ISO Image 08-Feb-2015

Troubleshooting

Support FAQ

• How do I determine which DIMM has triggered the fault LED on a UCS B-Series Blade Server? 12-Feb-2013
• UCS B-Series Blade Server FAQ: How do I get DIMMs of different sizes (4G and 8G) to work in the same B250M2 server? 07-Feb-2013

Troubleshooting TechNotes

• Troubleshoot Network Connectivity, Drops and CRC Errors 06-Oct-2023
• Install UCS Driver for Common OS 25-Aug-2023
• Collect UCS Tech Support Files - B, C, and S Series 09-Jun-2023
• Ports on the Fabric-Interconnect Run More than 90 Days 24-Apr-2023
• Run UCSM Health and Pre-Upgrade Check Tool 28-Mar-2023
• Troubleshoot DIMM Memory Issues in UCS 19-Dec-2022
• Configure and Claim a Standalone C-Series Server in Intersight after Motherboard Replacement 13-Sep-2022
• Secure Endpoint FPGA Firmware on UCS 6400 Fabric Interconnects 02-Dec-2021
• Identifying Power On Hours for SSD Drives 15-Jul-2021
• UCS B-Series/C-Series/S-Series/HyperFlex-Series Teaming, Bonding Options with the Cisco VIC Card 26-Aug-2020
• Managing Correctable Memory Errors on Cisco UCS Servers 14-Jul-2020 (PDF - 675 KB)
• UCS Fabric Interconnect Management Interfaces have Intermittent Connectivity Issues 21-Feb-2020
• B460 M4 Blade Server Fails Discovery After a Motherboard Replacement 17-Dec-2019
• Identify and Mitigate Defects Related to CRC Errors on UCS 22-Sep-2019
• UCS M5 Blade DIMM Population Sticker Does Not Match Documentation 15-Apr-2019

Literature

Case Studies

• Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Drives SLAs Up 25-Apr-2017 (PDF - 600 KB)

Solution Overviews

• Cisco Reference Architecture-Based Solution for Enterprise VDI Scale-Out 14-Nov-2015 (PDF - 353 KB)

White Papers

• Performance Tuning Best Practices Guide for Cisco UCS M7 Platforms 02-Jun-2023
• Performance Tuning Guide for Cisco UCS M6 Servers 01-Apr-2022
• Deploy FlexPod Datacenter for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 with VMware 7.0 on Cisco UCS B200 M6 and NetApp ONTAP 9.8 22-Sep-2021
• FlashStack with Oracle Database on Cisco UCS and Pure Storage for SAP Application Servers 22-Feb-2021
• Performance Tuning Guide for Cisco UCS M5 Servers White Paper 04-Feb-2021
• Deploy SAP Application Servers on FlexPod with SQL, Cisco UCS, and NetApp AFF Storage 15-Dec-2020 (PDF - 4 MB)
• Cisco USC fNIC Turables 23-Jun-2017 (PDF - 1 MB)
• Cisco UCS Infrastructure with Docker Datacenter for Container Management 06-Apr-2017
• Cisco UCS and Dell PowerEdge 1000e: A Comparison (White Paper) 14-Jul-2016 (PDF - 1 MB)
• Cisco UCS, HP and IBM: A Blade Architecture Comparison 22-Jul-2015 (PDF - 6 MB)
• Cisco UCS and HP Blades: A Look at TCO 22-Jul-2015 (PDF - 3 MB)
• Virtualized Video Infrastructure with Harmonic VOS and Cisco UCS White Paper 16-Jan-2015 (PDF - 1 MB)
• Server Consolidation Using Cisco Unified Computing System and EMC CLARiiON Storage 18-Dec-2013 (PDF - 1 MB)
• SQL Server Consolidation on VMware Using Cisco Unified Computing System 07-Feb-2012 (PDF - 1 MB)