SimpliVity OmniStack - Chapter 1: Hardware Overview; Hardware Components

Chapter 1: Hardware overview 8
Chapter 1: Hardware overview
This section contains the following topics:
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Hardware components
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Environmental and technical specifications
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About hardware upgrades
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About firmware revisions
This section contains information about the UCS C240 M4SX server configured for deployment into a
SimpliVity Federation.
For complete information about the server, see the Cisco UCS C240 M4SX Server Installation and
Service Guide, which you can download or view online at the following location:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c/hw/C240M4/install/C240M4.pdf
Hardware components
Each OmniStack server provides computing, storage, and network resources to the virtual machines
(VMs) in the Federation. When you need more capacity or performance, you can add more OmniStack
servers to a Federation, with no disruption to users.
Table 1: Hardware components by hybrid model (hybrid models may contain both HDD and SSD
physical drives)
Component Remote Site Small Medium and
Large
Model Intel Xeon E5-2600
V3 or V4 series
Intel Xeon E5-2600
V3 or V4 series
Intel Xeon E5-2600
V3 or V4 series
CPU count 1 1 or 2 1 or 2
Core count 6 or 8 8 or greater 8 or greater
Speed 2.3GHz or greater 2.3GHz or greater 2.3GHz or greater
CPU
Wattage 145W or less 145W or less 145W or less
Front SSD drives Quantity 2 2 4