The Cisco UCS X410c M8 Compute Node (UCSX-410C-M8) is a two-slot compute node that supports four CPU sockets for 6th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors. Each compute node is exactly four CPUs.

The overall compute node consists of two distinct subnodes, a primary and a secondary.

• The primary contains two CPUs (1 and 2), two heatsinks, and half of the DIMMs. All additional hardware components and supported functionality are supported through the primary, including the front and rear mezzanine hardware options, rear mezzanine bridge card, front panel, KVM, management console, and status LEDs.

• The secondary contains two additional CPUs (3 and 4), two heatsinks, and the other half of the DIMMs. The secondary also contains a power adapter, which ensures that the electrical power is shared and distributed between the primary and secondary. The power adapter is not a customer-serviceable part.

Each Cisco UCS X410c M8 compute node supports the following:

• Up to 16 TB of system memory using 64 DDR5 DIMMs. The DIMMs operate up to 6400 MHz with 1 DPC, and up to 5200 MHz with 2 DPC. Thirty-two DDR5 DIMMs are supported on the primary, and 32 DIMMs are supported on the secondary.

• Supports 16 DIMMs per CPU, 8 channels per CPU socket, 2 DIMMs per channel. Memory Mirroring and RAS is supported.

• Supported memory can be populated as 64 GB, 96 GB, 128 GB, or 256 GB DDR5 DIMMs.

• One front mezzanine module which can support any of the following:

  • A front storage module, which supports multiple different storage device configurations:

  • Compute Pass Through Controller (UCSX-X10C-PT4F-D)

    • All NVMe configuration consisting of up to six U.3 NVMe Gen4 (x4 PCIe) SSDs in slots 1 through 6.

  • 24G Tri-mode M1 RAID controller (UCSX-RAID-M1L6)

    • A storage configuration consisting of up to six SAS/SATA or U3 NVMe drives is supported in slot 1 through 6. Mixture of RAID creation between SAS and SATA, SAS and U3 NVME, SATA and U3 NVMe are not allowed. U.3 NVMe drives are also supported with an integrated RAID mode as well as Direct attach mode for slot 5 and 6.

      • SAS: 12G, 24G in a x1 config

      • SATA: 6G in a x1 config

      • NVMe: Gen 4 in a x2 config

  • Pass Through Controller for E3.S drives (UCSX-X10C-PTE3), which supports up to nine hot-pluggable EDSFF E3.S NVMe drives.

  • The Compute Node front panel has a flexible configuration through the front mezzanine module option you ordered. The following options are supported: as documented in

    • Compute Node front panel with SAS/SATA/NVMe Drives

    • Compute Node front panel with U.3 NVMe Drives

    • Compute Node Font Panel with E3.S NVMe Drives.

    For additional information, see Drive Front Panels.

  For additional information, see Front Mezzanine Options.

• 1 modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) module or virtual interface card (VIC) supporting a maximum of 200G of aggregate traffic, 100G to each fabric, through a Cisco 5th Gen 100G mLOM/VIC. For more information, see mLOM and Rear Mezzanine Slot Support.

• A boot-optimized mini-storage module. Two versions of mini-storage exist:

  • One version supports up to two M.2 SATA drives of up to 960GB each. This version supports an optional hardware RAID controller (RAID1).

  • One version supports up to two M.2 NVMe drives of up to 960GB each that are directly attached to CPU 1. This version does not support an optional RAID controller.

  Two options of mini-storage exist, one supporting up to two M.2 SATA drives with a MSTOR-RAID controller (UCSX-M2I-HWRD-FPS), and one supporting up to two M.2 NVMe drives direct attached to CPU1 through a Passthrough controller (UCSX-M2-PT-FPN).

• Local console connectivity through a USB Type-C connector.

• Up to 4 UCS X410c M8 compute nodes can be installed in a Cisco UCS X9508 modular system.

The local console connector is a horizontal oriented OcuLink on the compute node faceplate.

The connector allows a direct connection to a compute node to allow operating system installation directly rather than remotely.

The connector terminates to a KVM dongle cable (UCSX-C-DEBUGCBL) that provides a connection into a Cisco UCS compute node. The cable provides connection to the following:

• VGA connector for a monitor

• Host Serial Port

• USB port connector for a keyboard and mouse

With this cable, you can create a direct connection to the operating system and the BIOS running on a compute node. A KVM cable can be ordered separately. The cable doesn’t come with compute node’s accessary kit.

The following rear mezzanine and modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) modules and virtual interface cards (VICs) are supported.

The following mLOM VICs are supported.

• Cisco UCS VIC 15420 mLOM (UCSX- ML-V5Q50G) which supports:

  • Quad-Port 25G mLOM.

  • Occupies the compute node's modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) slot.

  • Enables up to 50 Gbps of unified fabric connectivity to each of the chassis intelligent fabric modules (IFMs) for 100 Gbps connectivity per compute node.

• Cisco UCS VIC 15230 mLOM (UCSX-ML-V5D200GV2), which supports:

  • x16 PCIE Gen 4 host interface to UCS X410c M8 compute node

  • Two or four KR interfaces that connect to Cisco UCS X Series Intelligent Fabric Modules (IFMs):

    • Two 100G KR interfaces connecting to the UCSX 100G Intelligent Fabric Module (UCSX-I-9108-100G)

    • Four 25G KR interfaces connecting to the Cisco UCSX 9108 25G Intelligent Fabric Module (UCSX-I-9108-25G)

The following modular network mezzanine cards are supported.

• Cisco UCS VIC 15422 (UCSX-ME-V5Q50G) which supports:

  • Four 25G KR interfaces.

  • Can occupy the compute node's mezzanine slot at the bottom rear of the chassis.

  • An included bridge card extends this VIC's 2x 50 Gbps of network connections through IFM connectors, bringing the total bandwidth to 100 Gbps per fabric (for a total of 200 Gbps per compute node).

Note	Although not an mLOM or rear mezzanine card, the UCS VIC 15000 bridge connector (UCSX-V5-BRIDGE-D) is required to connect the Cisco VIC 15420 mLOM and Cisco VIC 15422 rear mezzanine card on the compute node.