Cisco UCS B440 M2 High-Performance Blade
Server
Product Overview
Data Sheet
The Cisco® UCS B440 M2 High-Performance Blade Server delivers the performance, scalability and reliability to
power computation-intensive, enterprise-critical applications. By extending the agility and total-cost-of-ownership
(TCO) benefits of unified computing to a wider range of workloads, the Cisco UCS B440 M2 helps IT departments
free resources and respond more quickly to business demands.
The Cisco UCS B440 M2 is based on industry-standard server technologies and provides:
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Two or four multicore Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4800 product family for up to 40 processing cores
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Even better power performance than the B440 M1 with next generation memory buffers
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32 DIMM slots for industry-standard double-data-rate 3 (DDR3) memory
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Four optional front-accessible, hot-pluggable Small Form Factor (SFF) hard drives with an LSI Logic
SAS2108 controller and integrated RAID
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Two dual-port mezzanine-card connections for up to 80 Gbps of redundant I/O throughput
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Remote management through an integrated service processor that also implements policy established in
Cisco UCS Manager software
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Local keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) access through a front console port on each server
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Out-of-band access by remote KVM, Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol, and virtual media (vMedia) as well as
the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
The Cisco UCS B440 M2 is a full-width blade server (Figure 1); up to four of these high-density four-socket servers
can reside in the six-rack-unit (6RU) Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis.
Figure 1. Cisco UCS B440 M2 High-Performance Blade Server
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Table 1 provides an overview of the Cisco UCS B440 M2.
Table 1. Cisco UCS B440 M2 Overview
Model Number of
Cisco UCS
B440 M2
Processor
Sockets
4 32 registered
Maximum
Memory
Capacity
DIMMs
(RDIMMs); up
to 1 TB
Memory Size
and Speed
4-, 8-, 16- and
32-GB DDR3;
errorcorrecting
code (ECC)
RDIMMs
Size and
Form Factor
Full width 4 160 2 Up to 80 Gbps
Maximum
Number of
Servers per
Chassis
Maximum
Number of
Servers per
Cisco Unified
Computing
System™
Mezzanine
Adapters
Throughput
of redundant
I/O
Features and Benefits
The Cisco UCS B440 M2 blade server is designed to power the most demanding enterprise applications such as
large-data-set and transaction-intensive databases, enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications, and
decision-support systems (DSSs). Powered by the scalable performance and new reliability and security features
of Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4800 product family, the Cisco UCS B440 M2 helps widen the scope of workload
virtualization and unifies performance-intensive standalone applications within an integrated, simplified
infrastructure. Advanced silicon-level reliability and security features automatically manage hardware errors and
protect from malicious software attacks, maintaining data integrity and increasing the availability of enterprisecritical services. The Cisco UCS B440 M2 balances up to 40 processing cores and 1 TB of main memory with
combined I/O throughput of up to 160 Gbps. These performance capabilities combined with comprehensive silicon
and system-level reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features place this server in the mission-critical
class of systems.
Cisco’s innovative service profile technology embedded in Cisco UCS Manager provisions Cisco UCS B-Series
Blade Servers and their I/O properties (for more information, please see
Cisco UCS Manager At-a-Glance).
Infrastructure policies needed to provision servers and deploy applications, such as policies for power and cooling,
security, identity, hardware health, and Ethernet and storage networking, are encapsulated in the service profiles.
Use of service profiles helps reduce the number of manual steps needed for provisioning, the opportunities for
human error, and server and network deployment times. In addition, service profiles improve policy consistency
and coherency across the entire Cisco Unified Computing System.
Every Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Server uses converged network adapters (CNAs) for access to the unified fabric.
This design reduces the number of adapters, cables, and access-layer switches while still allowing traditional LAN
and SAN connectivity. This Cisco innovation reduces capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenses
(OpEx), including administrative overhead and power and cooling costs. Among the I/O options, and unique to the
Cisco Unified Computing System, the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1280 delivers up to 256 dynamic
virtual adapters and interfaces, all tightly integrated with Cisco UCS Manager and VMware vCenter Server.
Incorporating Cisco VM-FEX technology, this advanced fabric interface unifies virtual and physical networking into
a single infrastructure. It provides virtual-machine visibility from the physical network and a consistent network
operations model for physical and virtual servers. Two of these high-performance adapters can be employed to
make use of the significant processing capacity of the Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4800 product family in the Cisco
UCS B440 M2.
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