Cisco UCS B22 M3 Blade Server
BASE SERVER STANDARD CAPABILITIES and FEATURES
5
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.
Table 1 Capabilities and Features
Capability/Feature Description
Chassis The UCS B22 M3 Blade Server mounts in a Cisco UCS 5100 series blade server
chassis
CPU One or two Intel® E5-2400 series processor family CPUs
Chipset Intel® C600 series chipset
Memory 12 total slots for registered ECC DIMMs for up to 384 GB total memory
capacity (using 32 GB DIMMs)
I/O Mezzanine adapters:
■ Adapter slot 1 for Cisco’s VIC 1240 adapter, which provides Ethernet and
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
■ Adapter slot 2 for various types of Cisco, Emulex, or QLogic network I/O
adapters or Cisco UCS Storage Accelerator adapters
Storage controller LSI Logic SAS 2002 integrated controller
■ 6 Gbs 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: Adapter slot 2 is supported only for 2-CPU system
configurations.
NOTE: The integrated RAID controller does not implement a write
cache. However, servers that implement two HDDs and RAID
controllers with cache lack the ability to match the performance
of RAID’ed SSDs without cache, as implemented in this server.