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Overview

Overview

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The Cisco UCS C200 Server, which is a part of the Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount server family, is designed to operate in a wide range of data center environments, including those environments that use the Cisco Unified Computing System, Cisco Nexus family products, and discrete Ethernet and Fibre Channel switches from Cisco and third parties.

The Cisco UCS C200 server is a high-density, two-socket, 1RU rack-mount server designed to balance simplicity, performance, and density. Powered with two quad-core Intel Xeon 5500 series processors, the server supports production-level network infrastructures, web services, virtualization, data centers, and small-office and remote-office applications.

Figure 1-1 shows the external features of the front panel.

Figure 1-1 Front Panel Features

1	DVD-RW drive	2	Hard drive (up to four)
3	Console connector	4	Reset button1
5	Power supply fault LED	6	Memory fault LED
7	CPU fault LED	8	Network activity LED
9	System fault LED	10	Locator button/LED
11	Power button/Power status LED

1 See the following caution.

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Caution Do not use the Reset button. This button is for development debugging only. This button will reset memory and CPU settings to the defaults.

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Figure 1-2 shows the external features of the rear panel. A Generation M2 server is shown (the USB ports and the 10/100 Ethernet management port are in slightly different positions for Generation M1).

Figure 1-2 Rear Panel Features

1	Power supply (up to two)	2	10/100 Ethernet management port (RJ-45)
3	USB 2.0 connectors (two)	4	Serial connector (DB9)
5	Video connector (DB15 VGA)	6	10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet ports (two)
7	Low-profile PCIe card slot	8	Standard-profile PCIe card slot

The Cisco UCS C200 server has the following components and features:

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Table 1-1 Hardware Features of the Server  

Feature or Component	Cisco UCS C200 Server
Enclosure	Single rack unit (1RU) chassis.
Processors	Up to two quad-core Intel Xeon processors.
Memory	12 DIMM1 slots supporting up to 96 GB of industry-standard DDR32 main memory.
Storage	Up to four internal SAS3 or SATA4 hard drives, supporting up to 4 TB total.
Disk Management	Factory-configured RAID5 support options: •RAID 0 and 1 support for up to four SATA drives with the integrated SATA controller. Note The integrated ICH10R RAID controller is not compatible for use with VMWare ESX/ESXi Server software. •RAID 0 and 1 support for up to four SAS or SATA drives with the optional LSI 1064-based controller mezzanine card. •RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10, 50 and 60 support for up to four SAS or SATA drives with the optional LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260 controller card. See RAID Controller Considerations, page C-1 for more information about RAID in this server.
PCIe I/O	Up to two PCIe6 expansion cards, plugged into horizontal riser card sockets: •One standard-profile, half-length, x16-lane, x16 connector (on riser card). •One low-profile, half-length, x8-lane, x8 connector (on riser card).
Network and management I/O	The server provides these rear-panel connectors: •Two 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet ports (RJ-45 connectors). •One 10/100 Ethernet management port (RJ-45 connector). •One DB9 serial connector. •One DB15 VGA7 connector. •Two USB8 2.0 connectors. The server also has one front-panel console connector (with supplied KVM9 cable, provides DB15 video, DB9 serial, and two USB 2.0 connectors).
Removable media devices	One internal DVD-RW drive.
Power	Up to two power supplies, each with a maximum output of 650W (redundant power supply is optional).
Cooling	Five internal fans that force front-to-rear cooling; also one fan in each power supply.

1 DIMM = dual inline memory module 2 DDR = double data rate (transfer mode) 3 SAS = serial attached SCSI 4 SATA = serial advanced technology attachment 5 RAID = redundant array of independent disks 6 PCIe = peripheral component interconnect express 7 VGA = video graphics array 8 USB = universal serial bus 9 KVM = keyboard, video, mouse

See Appendix A, "Technical Specifications" for more physical, environmental, and power details.