Chassis

4RU server

Server nodes

Up to 2 nodes;

●  M5 server nodes based on 2 ^nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable and Intel Xeon Scalable processors

Processors

Dual 2^nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors per server node

●  M5 server node processors: 4214, 5218, 5220, 6238, 6240, 6262V, 4210R, 4214R, 5218R, 5220R, 6226R, 6230R

Processor cores

Up to 48 per server node

Memory

M5 server node: 7 Dual In-Line Memory Module (DIMM) slots per processors with 16-GB, 32-GB, 64-GB, or 128-GB DDR4 registered DIMMs (RDIMMs) or Load-Reduced DIMMs (LRDIMMs). 1 Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Ready Slot with 256-GB or 512-GB.

NVMe

Up to 12.8 TB NVMe for M5 server node

System I/O controllers

Up to 2 system I/O controllers. Choice of

●  Onboard Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1300 platform and 2 x 40-Gbps Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable (QSFP) ports (160 Gbps of throughput)

●  PCIe Slot based with choice of Cisco UCS VIC 1455 Quad Port 10/25G, Cisco UCS VIC 1495 Dual Port 40/100G, or third-party Ethernet and FC Adapters

I/O expansion module

●  Dual x8 Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) half-height, half-width slots for third-party add-in cards. ( Note: Available with M5 and M4 server node; uses server bay 1.)

●  Choice of I/O Ethernet and Fibre Channel options:

◦    1, 10 or 40 Gigabit Ethernet or 16-Gbps Fibre Channel

●  NVMe SSD options of 1.6-, 3.2-, or 6.4-TB

●  Application acceleration with support for NVIDIA T4 16GB GPU

Storage controller

RAID controller:

●  M5 server node: Dual-chip RAID controller based on LSI 3316 ROC with 4-GB RAID cache per chip and Supercap

Supports:

●  Controller support for RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50, and 60 and JBOD mode, providing enterprise-class data protection for all drives installed in the system

Pass-Through Controller

●  Dual Chip Pass-Through Controller with LSI IOC 3316 using LSI IT Firmware

Drives

●  Up to 56 top-accessible, hot-swappable 3.5-inch, 2-, 4-, 6-, 8-, 10-, 12-, 14-, 16-, or 18-TB 7200-RPM NL-SAS Hard-Disk Drives (HDDs).

●  Up to 28 top-accessible, hot-swappable 800-GB, 1.6-TB, or 3.2-TB SAS Solid-State Drives (SSDs)

●  Up to 2 rear-accessible, hot-swappable, 2.5-inch, 240-, or 480-GB SATA or 1.6-TB SSDs per server node

Note: These boot drives support Hardware RAID with the M4 and M5 server node connected to the RAID controller on the server node. These boot drives support SW RAID when using the pass-through storage controller. All drives are hot pluggable.

Disk expansion module

●  Expand data storage capacity with up to 4 rear-accessible, hot-swappable, 3.5-inch, 2-, 4-, 6-, 8-, 10-, 12-, 14-, 16-or 18-TB, 7200-RPM NL-SAS HDDs. ( Note: These drives are installed in server bay 2.)

Power supplies

●  4 hot-pluggable, 3+1 redundant 1050-Watt (W) AC or DC 80 PLUS Platinum efficiency power supplies

Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC)

Integrated Baseboard Management Controller (BMC):

●  IPMI 2.0 compliant for management and control

●  One 10/100/1000 Ethernet out-of-band management interface

●  Command-Line Interface (CLI) and web GUI management tool for automated, lights-out management

●  Keyboard, video, and mouse

●  HTML5 interface

Protocols

●  Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Network File System (NFS), Server Message Block (SMB), SMB Direct, and Small Computer System Interface over IP (iSCSI).

Physical unit

●  4RU height x 32-in. depth.

●  High reliability, availability, and serviceability features with tool-free server nodes, system I/O controller, easy-to-use latching lid, and hot-swappable and hot-pluggable components.

Operating systems

●  Microsoft Windows Server 2019; Red Hat Enterprise Linux; SUSE Linux; or VMware vSphere.