The Cisco UCS® C240 M5 Rack Server delivers industry-leading performance
and expandability.
The Cisco UCS C240 M5
Rack Server is a 2-socket, 2-Rack-Unit (2RU) rack server offering
industry-leading performance and expandability. It supports a wide range of
storage and I/O-intensive infrastructure workloads, from big data and analytics
to collaboration. Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers can be deployed as standalone
servers or as part of a Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS) managed environment to take advantage of
Cisco’s standards-based unified computing innovations that help reduce
customers’ Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and increase their business agility.
In response to
ever-increasing computing and data-intensive real-time workloads, the enterprise-class
Cisco UCS C240 M5 server extends the capabilities of the Cisco UCS portfolio in
a 2RU form factor. It incorporates the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, supporting up to 20 percent more
cores per socket, twice the memory capacity, and five times more.
Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) PCI Express
(PCIe) Solid-State Disks (SSDs) compared to the previous generation of servers.
These improvements deliver significant performance and efficiency gains that
will improve your application performance. The C240 M5 delivers outstanding
levels of storage expandability with exceptional performance, with:
The latest second-generation Intel Xeon
Scalable CPUs, with up to 28 cores per socket
● Supports the first-generation Intel Xeon Scalable CPU, with up
to 28 cores per socket
● Support for the Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory (128G, 256G,
512G)[1]
● Up to 24 DDR4 DIMMs for improved performance including higher
density DDR4 DIMMs
● Up to 26 hot-swappable Small-Form-Factor (SFF) 2.5-inch drives,
including 2 rear hot-swappable SFF drives (up to 10 support NVMe PCIe SSDs on
the NVMe-optimized chassis version), or 12 Large-Form-Factor (LFF) 3.5-inch
drives plus 2 rear hot-swappable SFF drives
● Support for 12-Gbps SAS modular RAID controller in a dedicated
slot, leaving the remaining PCIe Generation 3.0 slots available for other
expansion cards
● Modular LAN-On-Motherboard (mLOM) slot that can be used to
install a Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) without consuming a PCIe slot,
supporting dual 10- or 40-Gbps network connectivity
● Dual embedded Intel x550 10GBASE-T LAN-On-Motherboard (LOM)
ports
● Modular M.2 or Secure Digital (SD) cards that can be used for
boot
High performance for data-intensive applications
The Cisco UCS C240 M5 rack server is
well-suited for a wide range of enterprise workloads, including:
● Big data and analytics
● Collaboration
● Small and medium-sized business databases
● Virtualization and consolidation
● Storage servers
● High-performance appliances
C240 M5 servers can be
deployed as standalone servers or in a Cisco UCS managed environment. When used
in combination with Cisco UCS Manager, the C240 M5 brings the power and
automation of unified computing to enterprise applications, including Cisco® SingleConnect technology, drastically reducing switching
and cabling requirements.
Cisco UCS Manager uses service profiles,
templates, and policy-based management to enable rapid deployment and help
ensure deployment consistency. If also enables end-to-end server visibility,
management, and control in both virtualized and bare-metal environments.
The Cisco Integrated Management Controller
(IMC) delivers comprehensive out-of-band server management with support for
many industry standards, including:
● Redfish Version 1.01 (v1.01)
● Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) v2.0
● Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v2 and v3
● Syslog
● Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
● Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP)
● HTML5 GUI
● HTML5 virtual Keyboard, Video, and Mouse (vKVM)
● Command-Line Interface (CLI)
● XML API