Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server
BASE SERVER STANDARD CAPABILITIES and FEATURES
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BASE SERVER STANDARD CAPABILITIES and FEATURES
Table 1 lists the capabilities and features of the base server. Details about how to configure the server for 
a particular feature or capability (for example, number of processors, disk drives, or amount of memory) 
are provided in 
CONFIGURING the SERVER on page 7.
NOTE:  NOTE: The B200 M3 blade server requires UCS Manager (UCSM) to operate as 
part of the UCS system.
■ The B200 M3 with E5-2600 CPUs requires UCSM 2.0.2(q) or later
■ The B200 M3 with E5-2600 v2 CPUs requires UCSM 2.1.3 or later
Table 1   Capabilities and Features  
Capability/Feature Description
Chassis The UCS B200 M3 Blade Server mounts in a Cisco UCS 5100 series blade 
server chassis
CPU One or two Intel® E5-2600 v2 or E5-2600 series processor family CPUs
Chipset Intel® C600 series chipset
Memory 24 total slots for registered ECC DIMMs for up to 768 GB total memory 
capacity (B200 M3 configured with 2 CPUs using 32 GB DIMMs)
I/O Mezzanine adapters:
■ One connector for Cisco’s VIC 1240 adapter, which provides Ethernet and 
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
■ One connector for various types of Cisco adapters, Emulex or QLogic 
adapters, and Cisco UCS Storage Accelerator adapters.
Storage controller  LSI Logic SAS 2004 integrated controller
■ SAS/SATA support
■ RAID 0 and 1 
Internal storage devices Up to two optional, front-accessible, hot-swappable 2.5-inch small form 
factor (SFF) SAS or SATA solid-state disks (SSDs) or hard disk drives (HDDs).
An internal USB 2.0 port is also supported. A 4 GB USB 2.0 device is available 
from Cisco.
NOTE:  The integrated RAID controller does not implement a write 
cache. However, servers with two HDDs and RAID controllers with 
cache lack the ability to match the performance of RAID’ed SSD 
without cache, which can be configured with this server.