Cisco UCS E Series, UCS E140S, UCS E140D, UCS E140DP, UCS E160D Product Overview

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Cisco UCS E-Series Servers

Product Overview

Cisco UCS® E-Series Servers, part of the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS), are next-generation power-optimized general-purpose x86 64-bit blade servers designed to be deployed in Cisco® Integrated Services Routers Generation 2 (ISR G2; Figure 1).

These price-to-performance optimized single-socket blade servers balance simplicity, performance, reliability, and power efficiency and are well suited for applications and infrastructure services typically deployed in small offices and branch offices. By using the Cisco ISR G2 as the blade server chassis, customers can now deploy a single converged networking and computing platform designed specifically for remote-office and branch-office infrastructure consolidation.

Cisco UCS E-Series Servers deliver next-generation Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 and E3-1100 product family technology in combination with integrated remote lights-out management in a blade server form factor. These powerful processors deliver multiple cores and threads in a reduced-power envelope, providing improved performance and better energy efficiency than preceding models, making them an excellent platform for introducing virtualization into the branch office. The innovative, zero footprint form factor of the Cisco UCS ESeries Servers in conjunction with the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 and E3-1100 product families offer significantly lower total cost of ownership (TCO), increased business agility, and greater reliability when compared to standalone rack-mount and tower servers.

Figure 1: Cisco UCS E-Series Servers with Cisco 3945 ISR

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Applications

Feature

Benefit

Integrated networking

Two internal Gigabit Ethernet interfaces

Virtualization optimization

Intel®Xeon® processor E3-1100 and E5-2400 product families using Intel Hyper-Threading Technology as well as Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-x)

Four-core or six-core Intel Xeon processors

Energy-efficient, high-performance processors, providing increased performance in a compact form factor

Hot-swappable SAS drives, SAS selfencrypting drives (SEDs), and SATA solid-state drives (SSDs)

Up to three front-accessible, hot-swappable, internal 2.5-inch server-class SAS drives, SAS SEDs, or SATA SSDs

Balanced performance and capacity to best meet application needs:

SAS single-level cell (SLC) SSDs 10,000-rpm SAS drives for high performance and value with

SED option for security for data at rest

7200-rpm SATA II drives for high capacity and value

Cisco UCS E-Series Servers provide excellent performance and value for workloads including the following:

Core Microsoft Windows services: Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Microsoft

Windows print services, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server services, Domain Name System (DNS) server services, file services, and others

Mission-critical business applications: Point-of-sale (POS) systems, bank teller in-office control points

(IOCPs), electronic-medical-record (EMR) systems, inventory management systems, and others

Client-management services: Configuration and operations management, monitoring services, update

and patching services, backup and recovery services, terminal server gateways, and others

Other remote-office and branch-office applications

Features and Benefits

The Cisco UCS E-Series Servers extend the Cisco UCS product portfolio to meet the needs of customers who want to deploy a virtualization-ready computing infrastructure in a branch-office environment while maintaining a lean branch-office architecture. By combining virtualization with the servers, organizations can deploy new services incrementally on a schedule that best meets the organization's timing and budget while avoiding servicecall costs for on-site visits to deploy new hardware or software.

The servers are available in two form factors: a single-wide blade and a double-wide blade. The single-wide blade includes a four-core Intel Xeon E3-1100 processor and occupies a single service module slot in the Cisco ISR G2 device. The double-wide blade occupies two Cisco ISR G2 service-module slots side by side and includes either a four-core or six-core Intel Xeon E5-2400 processor with more RAM and storage capacity than the single-wide module. The double-wide blade also has a PCI Express (PCIe) card option for expanding external network and storage I/O.

Table 1 summarizes the features and benefits of the Cisco UCS E-Series Servers. Table 1: Features and Benefits

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Feature

Benefit

Hardware RAID 0, 1, and 5 support

Hardware RAID 0 and 1 support on single-wide blades and

double-wide blades with the PCIe card option

Hardware RAID 0, 1, and 5 support on double-wide blades

without the PCIe card option

LSI MegaRAID controller

Cisco UCS C-Series Integrated Management Controller (CIMC)

Web user interface for server management; remote keyboard,

video, and mouse (KVM); virtual media; and administration Virtual media support for remote CD and DVD drives as if local Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) 2.0 support

for out-of-band management through third-party enterprise

management systems Command-line interface (CLI) for server management Integration with Cisco IOS® Software for optional management

of the servers from within the router CLI and operating

environment One 10/100BASE-T out-of-band management interface

PCIe card support for additional network and storage I/O

Additional I/O performance and flexibility with four 1 Gigabit Ethernet or one 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) options (available in double-wide blades only)

Integrated external Gigabit Ethernet ports

Single-wide blades: 1 external Gigabit Ethernet port Double-wide blades: 2 external Gigabit Ethernet ports

Front-panel connectors

Front-panel VGA, 2 USB, and serial console connectors

Platform Support and Compatibility

Unlike the previous generation of Cisco UCS Express modules, Cisco UCS E-Series Servers are designed to support multiple bare-metal operating systems and hypervisors, including:

Operating systems

– Microsoft Windows Server – Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) – SUSE Linux – Oracle Enterprise Linux

Hypervisors

– Microsoft Hyper-V – VMware vSphere

– Citrix XenServer

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Product Specifications

FEATURE

CISCO UCS E140S (SINGLE-WIDE BLADE)

CISCO UCS E140D, E140DP, E160D, AND E160DP (DOUBLE-WIDE BLADES)

CPU

Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1105C (6-MB cache, 1.00 GHz, and 4 cores)

Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2418L

(10-MB cache, 2.0 GHz, and 4 cores) Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2428L

(15-MB cache, 1.8 GHz, and 6 cores)

DRAM

8 GB (default: one 8-GB DIMM) and up to 16 GB (two 8-GB DIMMs)

8 GB (default) and up to 48 GB (three 16-GB DIMMs)

Hard-disk drive (HDD)

Up to two:

7200-rpm SATA: 1 TB 10,000-rpm SAS: 900 GB 10,000-rpm SAS SED: 600 GB SAS SSD SLC: 200 GB

Up to three (Cisco UCS E140D or E160D) or two (Cisco UCS E140DP or E160DP):

7200-rpm SATA: 1 TB 10,000-rpm SAS: 900 GB 10,000-rpm SAS SED: 600 GB

SAS SSD SLC: 200 GB

RAID options

Hardware RAID 0 and 1 LSI MegaRAID controller

Cisco UCS E140D and E160D:

Hardware RAID 0, 1, and 5 Cisco UCS E140DP and E160DP:

Hardware RAID 0 and 1 LSI MegaRAID controller

Network interface cards (NICs)

Two internal and one external Gigabit Ethernet ports

Two internal and two external Gigabit Ethernet ports

Supported Cisco ISRs

Cisco 2911, 2921, 2951, 3925, 3925E, 3945, and 3945E

Cisco UCS E140D and E140DP: Cisco

2921, 2951, 3925, 3925E, 3945, and

3945E Cisco UCS E160D and E160DP: Cisco

3925, 3925E, 3945, and 3945E

PCIe

None

Cisco UCS E140DP and E160DP: Four 1 Gigabit Ethernet or one 10 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE

Cisco UCS C-Series CIMC

Integrated Emulex Pilot-3 baseboard

management controller (BMC) IPMI 2.0 compliant for management and

control One 10/100 Ethernet out-of-band

management interface CLI and WebGUI management tool for

automated, lights-out management KVM

Integrated Emulex Pilot-3 BMC IPMI 2.0 compliant for management and

control One 10/100 Ethernet out-of-band

management interface CLI and WebGUI management tool for

automated, lights-out management KVM

Table 2 lists the specifications for the Cisco UCS E-Series Servers. Table 2: Product Specifications

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FEATURE

CISCO UCS E140S (SINGLE-WIDE BLADE)

CISCO UCS E140D, E140DP, E160D, AND E160DP (DOUBLE-WIDE BLADES)

Secure Digital (SD) cards

Two SD cards: one for the Cisco UCS CSeries CIMC and temporary storage of OS and hypervisor installation images, and one for a blank virtual drive on which you can install an OS or a hypervisor

Two SD cards: one for the Cisco UCS C-Series CIMC and temporary storage of OS and hypervisor installation images, and one for a blank virtual drive on which you can install an OS or a hypervisor

Front-panel connectors

One KVM console connector (supplies 2 USB, 1 VGA, and 1 serial connector)

Front-panel VGA, 2 USB, and serial console connectors

Physical dimensions (H x W x D)

1.58 x 7.44 x 7.5 in. (4 x 18.9 x 19.1 cm)

1.58 x 16.23 x 7.5 in. (4 x 41.2 x 19.1 cm)

Maximum weight

2.5 lb (1.1 kg)

7 lb (3.2 kg)

Temperature: Operating