Cisco Systems UCSEZINFRACHSS User Manual

Cisco UCS 5108 Server Chassis Installation Guide

First Published: June 10, 2009

Last Modified: October 08, 2013

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Preface

This preface includes the following sections:

Audience, page ix

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Conventions, page ix

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Related Cisco UCS Documentation, page xi

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Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request, page xi

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To use this installation guide, you must be familiar with electronic circuitry and wiring practices and preferably be an electronic or electromechanical technician who has experience with electronic and electromechanical equipment.

Only trained and qualified service personnel (as defined in IEC 60950-1 and AS/NZS60950) should install, replace, or service the equipment. Install the system in accordance with the U.S. National Electric Code if you are in the United States.

Conventions

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GUI elements such as tab titles, area names, and field labels appear in this font.

Main titles such as window, dialog box, and wizard titles appear in this font.

Document titles appear in this font.

In a Text-based User Interface, text the system displays appears in this font.TUI elements

Terminal sessions and information that the system displays appear in this font.

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IndicationText Type

CLI commands

{x | y | z}

[x | y | z]

string

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CLI command keywords appear in this font.

Variables in a CLI command appear in this font.

Elements in square brackets are optional.[ ]

Required alternative keywords are grouped in braces and separated by vertical bars.

Optional alternative keywords are grouped in brackets and separated by vertical bars.

A nonquoted set of characters. Do not use quotation marks around the string or the string will include the quotation marks.

Nonprinting characters such as passwords are in angle brackets.< >

Default responses to system prompts are in square brackets.[ ]

An exclamation point (!) or a pound sign (#) at the beginning of a line of code indicates a comment line.

Note

Tip

Caution

Timesaver

Means reader take note. Notes contain helpful suggestions or references to material not covered in the document.

Means the following information will help you solve a problem. The tips information might not be troubleshooting or even an action, but could be useful information, similar to a Timesaver.

Means reader be careful. In this situation, you might perform an action that could result in equipment damage or loss of data.

Means the described action saves time. You can save time by performing the action described in the paragraph.

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Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

For information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see the monthly What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation.

Subscribe to the What's New in Cisco Product Documentation as a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed and set content to be delivered directly to your desktop using a reader application. The RSS feeds are a free service and Cisco currently supports RSS version 2.0.

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Overview

This chapter contains the following sections:

System Overview, page 1

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Features and Benefits, page 2

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Components, page 4

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LEDs, page 23

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System Overview

The Cisco UCS 5108 server chassis and its components are part of the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), which uses the Cisco UCS 5108 server system with the two I/O modules and the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects to provide advanced options and capabilities in server and data management. All servers are managed via the GUI or CLI with Cisco UCS Manager.

The Cisco UCS 5108 server chassis system consists of the following components:

CHAPTER 1

• Cisco UCS 5108 server chassis–AC version (N20-C6508)

• Cisco UCS 5108 server chassis–DC version (UCSB-5108-DC)

• Cisco UCS 2104XP I/O Module (N20-I6584)—Up to two I/O modules, each providing four ports of

10-Gb Ethernet, Cisco Data Center Ethernet, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) connection to the fabric interconnect

• Cisco UCS 2208XP I/O Module (UCS-IOM-2208XP)—Up to two I/O modules, each providing eight

universal ports configurable as a 10-Gb Ethernet, Cisco Data Center Ethernet, or Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) connection to the fabric interconnect

• Cisco UCS 2204XP I/O Module (UCS-IOM-2204XP)—Up to two I/O modules, each providing four

universal ports configurable as a 10-Gb Ethernet, Cisco Data Center Ethernet, or Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) connection to the fabric interconnect

A number of SFP+ choices using copper or optical fiber

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• Power supplies (N20-PAC5-2500W, UCSB-PSU-2500ACPL or N20-DC-2500)—Up to four 2500 Watt

hot-swappable power supplies

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Features and Benefits

• Fan modules (N20-FAN5)—Eight hot-swappable fan modules

UCS B-series blade servers, including

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◦ Cisco UCS B200 blade servers (N20-B6620-1 for M1 or N20-B6625-1 for M2)—Up to eight

half-width blade servers, each containing two CPUs and holding up to two hard drives capable of RAID 0 or 1

◦ Cisco UCS B200 M3 blade servers (UCSB-B200-M3)—Up to eight half-width blade servers, each

containing two CPUs and holding up to two hard drives capable of RAID 0 or 1

◦ Cisco UCS B22 blade servers (UCSB-B22-M3)—Up to eight half-width blade servers, each

containing two CPUs and holding up to two hard drives capable of RAID 0 or 1

◦ Cisco UCS B230 blade servers (N20-B6730)—Up to eight half-width blade servers, each containing

two CPUs and holding up to two SDD drives capable of RAID 0 or 1

◦ Cisco UCS B250 blade servers (N20-B6620-2 for M1 or N20-B6625-2 for M2)—Up to four

full-width blade servers, each containing two CPUs and holding up to two hard drives capable of RAID 0 or 1

◦ Cisco UCS B440 blade servers (N20-B6740-2)—Up to four full-width blade servers, each containing

four CPUs and holding up to four hard drives capable of RAID 0, 1, 5, and 6

Overview

◦ Cisco UCS B420 blade servers (UCSB-B420-M3)—Up to four full-width blade servers, each

containing four CPUs and holding up to four hard drives capable of RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10

Features and Benefits

The Cisco UCS 5108 revolutionizes the use and deployment of blade-based systems. By incorporating unified fabric, integrated, embedded management, and fabric extender technology, the Cisco Unified Computing System enables the chassis to have fewer physical components, no independent management, and to be more energy efficient than traditional blade server chassis.

This simplicity eliminates the need for dedicated chassis management and blade switches, reduces cabling, and enables the Cisco Unified Computing System to scale to 40 chassis without adding complexity. The Cisco UCS 5108 chassis is a critical component in delivering the Cisco Unified Computing System benefits of data center simplicity and IT responsiveness.

Table 1: Features and Benefits

Management by Cisco UCS Manager

BenefitFeature

Reduces total cost of ownership by removing management modules from the chassis, making the chassis stateless.

Provides a single, highly available management domain for all system chassis, reducing administrative tasks.

Unified fabric

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Decreases TCO by reducing the number of network interface cards (NICs), host bus adapters (HBAs), switches, and cables needed.

Overview

Features and Benefits

BenefitFeature

Support for one or two Cisco UCS 2100 Series or Cisco UCS 2200 FEXes

Auto discovery

High-performance midplane

Redundant hot swappable power supplies and fans

Eliminates switches from the chassis, including the complex configuration and management of those switches, allowing a system to scale without adding complexity and cost.

Allows use of two I/O modules for redundancy or aggregation of bandwidth.

Enables bandwidth scaling based on application needs; blades can be configured from 1.25 Gbps to 40 Gbps or more.

Requires no configuration; like all components in the Cisco Unified Computing System, chassis are automatically recognized and configured by Cisco UCS Manager.

Provides investment protection for new fabric extenders and future blade servers.

Supports up to 2x 40 Gigabit Ethernet for every blade server slot when used in high-availability mode.

Provides 8 blades with 1.2 terabits (Tb) of available Ethernet throughput for future I/O requirements.

Provides reconfigurable chassis to accommodate a variety of form factors and functions.

Provides high availability in multiple configurations.

Increases serviceability.

Provides uninterrupted service during maintenance.

Available configured for AC or DC environments (mixing not supported)

servers and FEXes

Comprehensive monitoring

airflow

Tool-free installation

Mixed blade configurations

Provides uninterrupted service during maintenance and server deployment.Hot-pluggable blade

Provides extensive environmental monitoring on each chassis

Allows use of user thresholds to optimize environmental management of the chassis.

Helps reduce power consumption and increase component reliability.Efficient front-to-back

Requires no specialized tools for chassis installation.

Provides mounting rails for easy installation and servicing.

Allows up to 8 half-width or 4 full-width blade servers, or any combination thereof, for outstanding flexibility.

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Components

Cisco UCS 5108 Server Chassis

The Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis is a scalable and flexible blade server chassis for today’s and tomorrow’s data center that helps reduce total cost of ownership. It is available configured for AC (N20-C6508) and DC (UCSB-5108-DC) power environments.

Is six rack units (6 RU) high and can mount in an industry-standard 19-inch rack with square holes (such as the Cisco R Series Racks) or in round hole racks when an adapter is used. The chassis can house up to eight half-width Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers and can accommodate both half- and full-width blade form factors.

Four single-phase, hot-swappable AC or DC power supplies are accessible from the front of the chassis. These power supplies can be configured to support nonredundant, N+1 redundant, and grid-redundant configurations. The rear of the chassis contains eight hot-swappable fans, four power connectors (one per power supply), and two I/O bays for I/O modules. A passive midplane provides up to an effective maximum of 20 Gbps of I/O bandwidth per server slot and up to 40 Gbps of I/O bandwidth for two slots, the midplane is built to eventually support 80 Gbps per slot.

Scalability is dependent on both hardware and software. For more information, see FEX Upgrade

Considerations, on page 63 and the appropriate UCS software release notes.

Overview

LEDs

Buttons

Connectors

Midplane

LEDs on the chassis indicate system connectivity and failure warnings. See LED Locations, on page 24 for details. There is also a flashing blue Beaconing LED and button that can be triggered manually or remotely from UCS Manager.

The beaconing function LED is also a feature on/off button. When triggered, beaconing of the server chassis is observable remotely from UCS Manager.

There are no user connectors such as RJ-45 ports on the chassis itself.

The integral chassis midplane supports the following:

40 G total bandwidth to each of two I/O Modules

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Auto-discover of all components

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Redundant data and management paths

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10 G Base-KR

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Blade Servers

The midplane is an entirely passive device.

The Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers are based on industry-standard server technologies and provide the following:

Up to two or four Intel multi-core processors, depending on the server

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Front-accessible, hot-swappable hard drives or solid-state disk (SSD) drives

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Depending on the server, support is available for up to three adapter card connections for up to 40 Gbps

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of redundant I/O throughput

Industry-standard double-data-rate 3 (DDR3) memory

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Remote management through an integrated service processor that also executes policy established in

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Cisco UCS Manager software

Local keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) and serial console access through a front console port on

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each server

Out-of-band access by remote KVM, Secure Shell (SSH), and virtual media (vMedia) as well as Intelligent

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Platform Management Interface (IPMI)

The Cisco UCS B-Series offers multiple blade server models. The supported processor family is indicated by M1, M2, or M3 designations on the model.

Cisco UCS B200 Blade Servers

For full service and installation instructions, see the Cisco UCS B200 Blade Server Installation and Service

Note. You can install up to eight UCS B200 M1 or M2 Blade Servers to a chassis.

Figure 1: Cisco UCS B200 M1 and M2

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numbers

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Network link status LED7Paper tab for server name or serial

Blade health LED8Blade ejector handle2

Blade Servers

LEDs

Overview

Console connector9Ejector captive screw3

Reset button access10Hard drive bay 14

Beaconing LED and button11Hard drive bay 25

Power button and LED6

The LED indicators indicate whether the blade server is in active or standby mode, the status of the network link, the over all health of the blade server, and whether the server is set to give a flashing blue beaconing indication. See Interpreting LEDs, on page 25 for details.

The removable hard disks also have LEDs indicating hard disk access activity and hard disk health.

Buttons

Connectors

The Reset button is just inside the chassis and must be pressed using the tip of a paper clip or a similar item. Hold the button down for five seconds and then release it to restart the server if other methods of restarting are not working.

The beaconing function for an individual server may get turned on or off by pressing the combination button and LED. See Interpreting LEDs, on page 25 for details.

The power button and LED allows you to manually take a server temporarily out of service but leave it in a state where it can be restarted quickly.

A console port gives a direct connection to a blade server to allow operating system installation and other management tasks to be done directly rather than remotely. The port uses the KVM dongle device included in the chassis accessory kit. See KVM Cable, on page 69 for more information.

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Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Servers

For full service and installation instructions, see the Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server Installation and Service

Note. You can install up to eight UCS B200 M3 Blade Servers to a chassis.

Figure 2: Cisco UCS B200 M3

Blade Servers

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Network link status LED7Asset Tag

Blade health LED8Blade ejector handle2

Console connector9Ejector captive screw3

Reset button access10Hard drive bay 14

Beaconing LED and button11Hard drive bay 25

Power button and LED6

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Each server has a blank plastic tag that pulls out of the front panel which is provided so that you can add your own asset tracking label without interfering with the intended air flow.

LEDs

The LED indicators indicate whether the blade server is in active or standby mode, the status of the network link, the over all health of the blade server, and whether the server is set to give a flashing blue beaconing indication. See Interpreting LEDs, on page 25 for details.

The removable hard disks also have LEDs indicating hard disk access activity and hard disk health.

Buttons

The Reset button is just inside the chassis and must be pressed using the tip of a paper clip or a similar item. Hold the button down for five seconds and then release it to restart the server if other methods of restarting are not working.

The beaconing function for an individual server may get turned on or off by pressing the combination button and LED. See Interpreting LEDs, on page 25 for details.

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Blade Servers

The power button and LED allows you to manually take a server temporarily out of service but leave it in a state where it can be restarted quickly.

Connectors

A console port gives a direct connection to a blade server to allow operating system installation and other management tasks to be done directly rather than remotely. The port uses the KVM dongle device included in the chassis accessory kit. See KVM Cable, on page 69 for more information.

Cisco UCS B22 M3 Blade Servers

For full service and installation instructions, see the Cisco UCS B22 Blade Server Installation and Service

Note. You can install up to eight UCS B22 M3 Blade Servers to a chassis.

Figure 3: Cisco UCS B22 M3

Overview

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Network link status LED7Asset tag

Blade health LED8Blade ejector handle2

Console connector9Ejector captive screw3

Reset button access10Hard drive bay 14

Beaconing LED and button11Hard drive bay 25

Power button and LED6

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Each server has a blank plastic asset tag that pulls out of the front panel, provided so you can add your own asset tracking label without interfering with the intended air flow.

LEDs

The LED indicators indicate whether the blade server is in active or standby mode, the status of the network link, the over all health of the blade server, and whether the server is set to give a flashing blue beaconing indication. See Interpreting LEDs, on page 25 for details.

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Buttons

Connectors

Blade Servers

The removable hard disks also have LEDs indicating hard disk access activity and hard disk health.

The Reset button is just inside the chassis and must be pressed using the tip of a paper clip or a similar item. Hold the button down for five seconds and then release it to restart the server if other methods of restarting are not working.

The beaconing function for an individual server may get turned on or off by pressing the combination button and LED. See Interpreting LEDs, on page 25 for details.

The power button and LED allows you to manually take a server temporarily out of service but leave it in a state where it can be restarted quickly.

A console port gives a direct connection to a blade server to allow operating system installation and other management tasks to be done directly rather than remotely. The port uses the KVM dongle device included in the chassis accessory kit. See KVM Cable, on page 69 for more information.

Cisco UCS B230 Blade Servers

For full service and installation instructions, see the Cisco UCS B230 Blade Server Installation and Service

Note. You can install up to eight UCS B230 Blade Servers to a chassis.

Figure 4: Cisco UCS B230 (N20-B6730) Front Panel

Beaconing LED and button9SSD 1 Activity LED1

System Activity LED10SSD 1 Fault/Locate LED2

Blade health LED11SSD sled in Bay 13

Reset button access12SSD 2 Activity4

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LEDs

Overview

Power button and LED13SSD 2 Fault LED5

Console connector14Ejector lever captive screw6

Asset tag15Ejector lever7

SSD sled in Bay 18

The LED indicators indicate whether the blade server is in active or standby mode, the status of the network link, the over all health of the blade server, and whether the server is set to give a flashing blue beaconing indication. See Interpreting LEDs, on page 25 for details.

The removable hard disks also have LEDs indicating hard disk access activity and hard disk health.

Buttons

Connectors

The Reset button is just inside the chassis and must be pressed using the tip of a paper clip or a similar item. Hold the button down for five seconds and then release it to restart the server if other methods of restarting are not working.

The beaconing function for an individual server may get turned on or off by pressing the combination button and LED. See Interpreting LEDs, on page 25 for details.

The power button and LED allows you to manually take a server temporarily out of service but leave it in a state where it can be restarted quickly.

A console port gives a direct connection to a blade server to allow operating system installation and other management tasks to be done directly rather than remotely. The port uses the KVM dongle device included in the chassis accessory kit. See KVM Cable, on page 69 for more information.

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Cisco UCS B250 Blade Servers

For full service and installation instructions, see the Cisco UCS B250 Blade Server Installation and Service

Note.

Figure 5: Cisco UCS B250

Blade Servers

Power button and LED8Hard drive bay 11

LEDs

Buttons

Network link status LED9Hard drive bay 22

Blade health LED10Left ejector captive screw3

Console connector11Left blade ejector handle4

Reset button access12Paper tab for server name or serial numbers5

Beaconing LED and button13Right blade ejector handle6

Right ejector captive screw7

The LED indicators indicate whether the blade server is in active or standby mode, the status of the network link, the over all health of the blade server, and whether the server is set to give a flashing blue beaconing indication. See Interpreting LEDs, on page 25 for details.

The removable hard disks also have LEDs indicating hard disk access activity and hard disk health.

The Reset button is just inside the chassis and must be pressed using the tip of a paper clip or a similar item. Hold the button down for five seconds and then release it to restart the server if other methods of restarting are not working.

The beaconing function for an individual server may get turned on or off by pressing the combination button and LED. See Interpreting LEDs, on page 25 for details.

The power button and LED allows you to manually take a server temporarily out of service but leave it in a state where it can be restarted quickly.

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Connectors

A console port gives a direct connection to a blade server to allow operating system installation and other management tasks to be done directly rather than remotely. The port uses the KVM dongle device included in the chassis accessory kit. See KVM Cable, on page 69 for more information.

Cisco UCS B440 Blade Servers

For full service and installation instructions, see the Cisco UCS B440 High Performance Blade Server

Installation and Service Note.

Figure 6: Cisco UCS B440

Overview

LEDs

Right ejector thumbscrew9Hard drive bay 11

Power button and LED10Hard drive bay 22

Network link status LED11Hard drive bay 33

Blade health LED12Hard drive bay 44

Local console connection13RAID battery backup module (BBU)5

Reset button access14Left ejector thumbscrew6

Locate button and LED15Left ejector handle7

Right ejector handle8

The LED indicators indicate whether the blade server is in active or standby mode, the status of the network link, the over all health of the blade server, and whether the server is set to give a flashing blue beaconing indication. See Interpreting LEDs, on page 25 for details.

The removable hard disks also have LEDs indicating hard disk access activity and hard disk health.

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Buttons

Connectors

Cisco UCS B420 M3 High Performance Blade Server

The Reset button is just inside the chassis and must be pressed using the tip of a paper clip or a similar item. Hold the button down for five seconds and then release it to restart the server if other methods of restarting are not working.

The beaconing function for an individual server may get turned on or off by pressing the combination button and LED. See Interpreting LEDs, on page 25 for details.

The power button and LED allows you to manually take a server temporarily out of service but leave it in a state where it can be restarted quickly.

A console port gives a direct connection to a blade server to allow operating system installation and other management tasks to be done directly rather than remotely. The port uses the KVM dongle device included in the chassis accessory kit. See KVM Cable, on page 69 for more information.

Cisco UCS B420 M3 High Performance Blade Server

For full service and installation instructions, see the Cisco UCS B420 M3 High Performance Blade Server

Installation and Service Note. You can install up to four UCS B420 M3 High Performance Blade Servers to

a chassis.

Figure 7: Cisco UCS B420 M3

Power button and LED8Hard drive bay 11

Network link status LED9Hard drive bay 22

Blade health LED10Hard drive bay 33

Console connector11Hard drive bay 44

Reset button access12Left ejector handle5

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3

Beaconing LED and button13Asset tag

Right ejector handle7

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Adapter Cards

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Each server has a blank plastic asset tag that pulls out of the front panel, provided so you can add your own asset tracking label without interfering with the intended air flow.

LEDs

The LED indicators indicate whether the blade server is in active or standby mode, the status of the network link, the over all health of the blade server, and whether the server is set to give a flashing blue beaconing indication. See Interpreting LEDs, on page 25 for details.

The removable hard disks also have LEDs indicating hard disk access activity and hard disk health.

Buttons

The Reset button is just inside the chassis and must be pressed using the tip of a paper clip or a similar item. Hold the button down for five seconds and then release it to restart the server if other methods of restarting are not working.

The beaconing function for an individual server may get turned on or off by pressing the combination button and LED. See Interpreting LEDs, on page 25 for details.

The power button and LED allows you to manually take a server temporarily out of service but leave it in a state where it can be restarted quickly.

Connectors

A console port gives a direct connection to a blade server to allow operating system installation and other management tasks to be done directly rather than remotely. The port uses the KVM dongle device included in the chassis accessory kit. See KVM Cable, on page 69 for more information.

Adapter Cards

Depending on the model of server in question, one to three adapter cards will reside in each blade server, providing failover connectivity to each FEX in the chassis. The following models are available, and others are released on an ongoing basis:

Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1280

The Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1280 (UCS-VIC-M82-8P) is an eight-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)-capable mezzanine card designed exclusively for Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers. The card enables a policy-based, stateless, agile server infrastructure that can present up to 256 PCIe standards-compliant interfaces to the host that can be dynamically configured as either network interface cards (NICs) or host bus adapters (HBAs). In addition, the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1280 supports Cisco Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology, which extends the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect ports to virtual machines, simplifying server virtualization deployment.

Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card

The Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card is a virtualization-optimized Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adapter card. The virtual interface card is a dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter card that supports

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Adapter Cards

up to 128 Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) standards-compliant virtual interfaces that can be dynamically configured so that both their interface type (network interface card [NIC] or host bus adapter [HBA]) and identity (MAC address and worldwide name [WWNN]) are established using just-in-time provisioning. In addition, the Cisco UCS M81KR supports network interface virtualization and Cisco VN-Link technology.

The Cisco UCS M81KR is designed for both traditional operating system and virtualization environments. It is optimized for virtualized environments, for organizations that seek increased mobility in their physical environments, and for data centers that want reduced TCO through NIC, HBA, cabling, and switch reduction.

The Cisco UCS M81KR presents up to 128 virtual interfaces to the operating system on a given blade. The 128 virtual interfaces can be dynamically configured by Cisco UCS Manager as either Fibre Channel or Ethernet devices. Deployment of applications using multiple Ethernet and Fibre Channel interfaces is no longer constrained by the available physical adapters. To an operating system or a hypervisor running on a Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Server, the virtual interfaces appear as regular PCIe devices.

The Cisco UCS M81KR has built-in architectural support enabling the virtual machine to directly access the adapter. I/O bottlenecks and memory performance can be improved by providing virtual machines direct access to hardware I/O devices, eliminating the overhead of embedded software switches.

The Cisco UCS M81KR also brings adapter consolidation to physical environments. The adapter can be defined as multiple different NICs and HBAs. For example, one adapter card can replace two quad-port NICs and two single-port HBAs, resulting in fewer NICs, HBAs, switches, and cables.

Cisco UCS 82598KR-CI 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

The Cisco UCS 82598KR-CI 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter is based on the Intel 82598 10 Gigabit Ethernet controller, which is designed for efficient high-performance Ethernet transport. It provides a solution for data center environments that need low-latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet transport capability, and a dual-port connection to the midplane of the blade server chassis.

The Cisco UCS 82598KR-CI supports Intel Input/Output Acceleration Technology (I/OAT) as well as virtual queues for I/O virtualization. The adapter is energy efficient and can also help reduce CPU utilization by providing large segment offload (LSO) and TCP segmentation offload (TSO). The Cisco UCS 82598KR-CI uses Intel Virtual Machine Device Queue (VMDq) technology for the efficient routing of packets to the appropriate virtual machine.

Cisco UCS M71KR-E Emulex Converged Network Adapter

The Cisco UCS M71KR-E Emulex Converged Network Adapter (CNA) is an Emulex-based Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adapter card that provides connectivity for Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers in the Cisco Unified Computing System.

Designed specifically for the Cisco UCS blades, the adapter provides a dual-port connection to the midplane of the blade server chassis. The Cisco UCS M71KR-E uses an Intel 82598 10 Gigabit Ethernet controller for network traffic and an Emulex 4-Gbps Fibre Channel controller for Fibre Channel traffic all on the same adapter card. The Cisco UCS M71KR-E presents two discrete Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA) ports and two Ethernet network ports to the operating system.

The Cisco UCS M71KR-E provides both 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 4-Gbps Fibre Channel functions using drivers from Emulex, providing:

Compatibility with current Emulex adapter-based SAN environments and drivers

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Cisco UCS M71KR-Q QLogic Converged Network Adapter

The Cisco UCS M71KR-Q QLogic Converged Network Adapter (CNA) is a QLogic-based Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adapter card that provides connectivity for Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers in the Cisco Unified Computing System.

Designed specifically for the Cisco UCS blades, the adapter provides a dual-port connection to the midplane of the blade server chassis. The Cisco UCS M71KR-Q uses an Intel 82598 10 Gigabit Ethernet controller for network traffic and a QLogic 4-Gbps Fibre Channel controller for Fibre Channel traffic, all on the same adapter card. The Cisco UCS M71KR-Q presents two discrete Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA) ports and two Ethernet network ports to the operating system.

The Cisco UCS M71KR-Q provides both 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 4-Gbps Fibre Channel functions using drivers from QLogic, providing:

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Cisco UCS 2104XP FEXes

Figure 8: Cisco UCS 2104 IO Module

Cisco UCS 2104XP FEXes

Connection ports (to the fabric interconnect)3Fabric extender status indicator LED1

Captive screws for the insertion latches4Link status indicator LEDs2

Cisco UCS 2100 Series FEXes bring the unified fabric into the blade server enclosure, providing 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections between blade servers and the fabric interconnect, simplifying diagnostics, cabling, and management.

The Cisco UCS 2104 (N20-I6584) extends the I/O fabric between the fabric interconnects and the Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis, enabling a lossless and deterministic Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) fabric to connect all blades and chassis together. Because the FEX is similar to a distributed line card, it does not do any switching and is managed as an extension of the fabric interconnects. This approach removes switching from the chassis, reducing overall infrastructure complexity and enabling the Cisco Unified Computing System to scale to many chassis without multiplying the number of switches needed, reducing TCO and allowing all chassis to be managed as a single, highly available management domain.

The Cisco 2100 Series also manages the chassis environment (the power supply and fans as well as the blades) in conjunction with the fabric interconnect. Therefore, separate chassis management modules are not required.

Cisco UCS 2100 Series FEXes fit into the back of the Cisco UCS 5100 Series chassis. Each Cisco UCS 5100 Series chassis can support up to two FEXes, enabling increased capacity as well as redundancy.

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CONTENTS

Audience

Preface

Conventions

Related Cisco UCS Documentation

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Overview

System Overview

Features and Benefits

Components

Cisco UCS 5108 Server Chassis

LEDs

Buttons

Connectors

Midplane

Blade Servers

Cisco UCS B200 Blade Servers

LEDs

Buttons

Connectors

Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Servers

LEDs

Buttons

Connectors

Cisco UCS B22 M3 Blade Servers

LEDs

Buttons

Connectors

Cisco UCS B230 Blade Servers

LEDs

Buttons

Connectors

Cisco UCS B250 Blade Servers

LEDs

Buttons

Connectors

Cisco UCS B440 Blade Servers

LEDs

Buttons

Connectors

Cisco UCS B420 M3 High Performance Blade Server

Adapter Cards

LEDs

Buttons

Connectors

Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 1280

Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card

Cisco UCS 82598KR-CI 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

Cisco UCS M71KR-E Emulex Converged Network Adapter

Cisco UCS M71KR-Q QLogic Converged Network Adapter

Cisco UCS 2104XP FEXes