Capability/Feature

Description

7 RU Chassis

The X9508 chassis has 8x front-facing flexible slots. These can house a combination of compute nodes and a pool of future I/O resources that may include GPU accelerators, disk storage, and nonvolatile memory.

Compute Node Support

■ General

• Support for 2-CPU single slot compute nodes■ Compute Nodes

• Supports CPUs and future GPUs with 300W+ TDP, and 900W+ per compute node TDP

• Support for highest end DDR/persistent memory configurations

• Support for a minimum of 2 Mezzanine slots for premium VIC, GPU, and FPGA expansion

Intelligent Fabric

Module

2x Cisco UCS 9108 Intelligent Fabric Modules (IFMs) at the top of the chassis that connect the chassis to upstream Cisco UCS 6400 series or 6536 Fabric Interconnects. Each IFM features the following:

■ Up to 100 Gbps of unified fabric connectivity per compute node.

■ 8x 25-Gbps SFP28 or 8X 100-Gbps QSFP28 uplink ports. The unified fabric carries management traffic to the Cisco Intersight cloud- operations platform, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) traffic, and production Ethernet traffic to the fabric interconnects.

Cisco UCS X-Fabric technology

At the bottom rear of the X9508 chassis are slots ready to house X-Fabric modules that can flexibly connect the compute modules with I/O devices. The “X” in Cisco UCS X-Fabric technology denotes a variable that can evolve with new technology developments.

Next Generation Power and Thermal Capability

■ Power supplies

• Six 2800-Watt power supplies providing 54 V power

• 4x 100 mm dual counter-rotating fans

• N, N+1, N+2, and N+N redundancy

• 300 Watt+ total power dissipation for compute nodes

Density and Form Factor

■ Industry-leading socket density per RU

■ Minimum of 8 compute slots

■ 32 DIMM socket support on a 2-socket compute node (beginning with the Ice Lake CPU family)

■ Power, thermal, and form factor support for smart NICs, FPGA accelerators, and GPU cards

Fabric Bandwidth

■ Data fabric connectivity to compute nodes of 200 Gbps Ethernet speeds per compute node

■ Provision for future fabric expansion

Chassis Storage Support   

■ Local storage

Product ID (PID)

Description

Usage

UCSX-M6-MLB

UCS M6 Rack, Blade, Chassis MLB

Use this major line bundle (MLB) PID to begin a new configuration.

UCSX-9508=

UCS X9508 Chassis

Chassis with or without IFM, PSU – Nodes are not offered/configurable in this SKU

UCSX-9508-U

UCS X9508 Chassis Configured

Chassis configured with Node, IFM, PSU etc

UCSX-9508-CH

DISTI: UCS X9508 Chassis

Chassis SKU used for Cisco approved

Distributor’s: this SKU is not configurable -Bare

Chassis with Blanks, Brackets and Accessory Kit

Product ID (PID)

Description

Cisco UCSX-210C-M6

UCS 210c M6 Compute Node w/o CPU, Memory, Storage, Mezz

Product ID (PID)

Description

UCSX-I-9108-25G

UCS 9108-25G IFM for X9508 chassis

UCSX-I-9108-100G

UCS 9108-100G IFM for X9508 chassis

Product ID (PID)

Description

UCSX-F-9416

UCS 9416 X-Fabric module for 9508 chassis