TechWiseTV Workshop: 5th Generation UCS

Arvie Martin

Director - UCS Product ManagementAugust 16th, 2017

TechWiseTV Workshop5th Generation UCS

UCS C220 M5 Rack Server20% more cores

100% more memory800% more NVMe: 10 SFF Bays

UCS C240 M5 Rack Server

20% more cores

100% more memory800% more NVMe: 28 SFF Bays3X GPUs: 6 Total

63% more drive bays: 32 SFF940% more NVMe: 512TB

UCS C480 M5 Rack Server

4X GPUs

80% more storage: 39TB20% better memory bandwidth

UCS B480 M5 Blade Server

2 GPU Support (Industry Unique)

100% more memory55% more storage: 20.5TB

UCS B200 M5 Blade ServerUCS Fabric Interconnects & UCS Management:

Consistent Connectivity and Operations Across

Generations

Note: all comparisons to UCS M4 Serv ers

Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 Product Family

(codename Broadwell-EP)

Intel® Xeon®

processor Scalable

Family (Skylake-SP)

Advanced &

Segment Optimized

Standard

Basic

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Platinum Advanced &

Segment Optimized

Standard

Basic

Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v4 and E5-4600 v4 Product Family(codename Broadwell-EX)

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Cisco UCS C220 M5 Rack ServerRecord-breaking performance in a dense 1RU form factor for a wide range of workloads including virtualization, web, collaboration, cloud, and bare metal applications

FCS

Aug

2017

What’s new• Support for Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Family

• Support for 2666 MHz DDR4 DIMMS with new capacity point of

128GB

• GPU support (max 1 per server) – post-FCS

• Increased storage density – up to 10 SFF per 1RU (all NVMe

option post-FCS

• 10GbE Embedded LOM

• Modular Internal FlexStorage Option: Mirrored SD Card or M.2

SATA @ FCS with SW RAID

• New SSD and NVMe Options

• Post FCS: 3D XPoint Memory, M.2 NVMe

UCS C220 M5 Density-Optimized

Enterprise Rack Server

24 DDR4 DIMM Slots

Up to 2666 MHz speeds

Modular LOM (mLOM)

VIC or CNA Options

Two PCIe 3.0 Slots

One PCIe slot “VIC-Optimized”

Security Bezel

Optional

Direct Attached Storage

Up to 10 SFF or 4 LFF drives

NVMe PCIe SSD support

M.2 and SD card support

Two CPUs

Intel® Xeon®

Processor Scalable Family

(Up to 28 cores per socket)

Cisco UCS C220 M5 Rack Server Internals

Two Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable

Family CPUs

24 DIMM (and 3D XPoint) Sockets

Modular SD FlexFlashor

Modular M.2 (SATA or NVMe)

x16 Full HeightPCIe 3.0 slot

x16 Half HeightPCIe 3.0 slot

x16 mLOM slot

Up to 10 SFF or 4 LFF drives

Support for 2 NVMe

PCIe SSDs in mixed

configuration, or up to

10 NVMe PCIe SSDs

w ith “NVMe Optimized”

SKU

Up to 2666MHz Dedicated RAID slot

Cisco UCS C220 M5 Rack ServerUCS C220 M5 Server (SFF Drives) Front Views

Cisco UCS C220 M5 Rack ServerUCS C220 M5 Server (LFF Drives) Front Views

Cisco UCS C220 M5 Rack ServerUCS C220 M5 Server Core Features

• Chassis is 1RU Form Factor

• Supports up to two Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake) CPUs (CPU offerings per platform on earlier slides)

• Supports up to 24 DDR4 DIMMs, up to 2666 MHz (12 DIMMs per CPU, RDIMM/LRDIMM support)

• Multi-bit ECC

• Avago Pilot IV baseboard management controller

• Network Management / IO – Rear panel

• One 1-Gb Ethernet dedicated management port (RJ-45 connector)

• Two 10-Gb BASE-T Ethernet LAN ports (Intel X550 Sageville controller) – Wake on LAN

• One RS-232 serial port (RJ-45 connector)

• One VGA video connector port (DB-15 connector)

• Two USB 3.0 ports

• Network Management / IO – Front panel

• One front-panel keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) connector that is used with the KVM cable, which provides two USB 2.0, one VGA, and one DB-9 serial connector.

• Internal USB 3.0 Connector

PCIe Riser Options for C220 M5 Rack Servers48 lanes of PCIe Gen3 per CPU provides allows for On Demand High-Speed I/O

• PCIe Riser 1: 230 pin PCIe connector (includes NCSI port and 12V Standby Power support)

• PCIe Slot 1: Width x16 Gen3, full-height, ¾ length

• x24 mechanical connector

• No hot plug support

• Riser includes slot for optional Micro SD card

Cisco Confidential – NDA Required

PCIe Riser Options for C220 M5 Rack Servers48 lanes of PCIe Gen3 per CPU provides allows for On Demand High-Speed I/O

• PCIe Riser 2: 230 pin PCIe connector (includes NCSI port and Standby Power support)

• PCIe Slot 2: Width x16 Gen3, full-height, ¾ length

• x24 mechanical connector

• No hot plug support

• Includes additional x8 PCIe Gen3 Oculink connector for front NVMe SSDs (slots 1 and 2)


Cisco UCS C240 M5 Rack ServerUnrivaled performance for a wide range of enterprise workloads including big data analytics, collaboration, databases, virtualization, and high performance applications

FCS

Aug

2017



128GB

• Hot-swap rear SFF drives with centralized RAID, Up to 10 SFF

NVMe drives (post-FCS)

• 10GbE Embedded LOM





UCS C240 M5 Storage and IO-Optimized

Enterprise Rack Server

24 DDR4 DIMM Slots


Modular LOM (mLOM)

VIC or CNA Options

Six PCIe 3.0 Slots

Four Full / Full - Four NCSI

Security

Bezel

Optional


Up to 24 SFF or 12 LFF

+2 SFF rear drives

NVMe PCIe SSD support

M.2 and SD card support

Two CPUs

Intel® Xeon® Processor

Scalable Family


Cisco UCS C240 M5 Rack Server

Two Intel® Xeon®

Processor Scalable Family CPUs

24 DIMM (and 3D XPoint) Sockets

Modular SD FlexFlash

or

Modular M.2 (SATA or

NVMe)

Up to 6

PCIe 3.0 slotsUp to 4 full height/full length x16 slots

x16 mLOM slotUp to 2666MHz speeds

Up to 24 SFF or 12

LFF drivesSupport for 4 NVMe

PCIe SSDs in mixed

configuration, or up to

10 NVMe PCIe SSDs

(tw o rear) w ith “NVMe

Optimized” SKU

All SAS/SATA (not

NVMe) drives

managed by dedicated

RAID controller &

supported in UCSM

Up to 2 optional rear

hot-swap 2.5-in drivesCan be NVMe PCIe SSDs or

SAS/SATA/SSD in standard SKUs

Dedicated RAID slot

Cisco UCS C240 M5 Rack ServerUCSC-C240-M5SX / UCSC-C240-M5SN Server (24 SFF Drives) Front Views



• Supports up to two Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake) CPUs (CPU offerings per platform on earlier slides)

• Supports up to 24 DDR4 DIMMs, up to 2666 MHz (12 DIMMs per CPU, RDIMM/LRDIMM support)

• Multi-bit ECC


• Network Management / IO – Rear panel


• Two 10-Gb BASE-T Ethernet LAN ports (Intel X550 Sageville controller) – Wake on LAN







Storage Options for C240 M5 Rack ServersFlexible Storage options to align with a variety of workloads and applications

• Mini Storage Options also available

• Dual SD cards (32GB / 64GB / 128GB) OR

• Dual M.2 SATA / NVMe (NVMe post-FCS)

• PCIeNVMe - x2 + x2 from Lewisburg

• 240 GB / 960 GB SATA SSDs at FCS

• Optional 32GB Micro SD card on PCIe Riser 1

• Support for up to 4 NVMe SSDs (2 in front, 2 in rear)


• NEW Rear Drive Backplane has 2 SKUS

• Rear SAS Backplane (2URS)

• Rear NVMe Backplane (2URN)

Step 1.

Step 2. Step 3.

C240M5S DVD Drive option

C240M5S has DVD option available


UCSC-DVD-C240M5

DVD Drive Option kit

Cisco UCS C480 M5 Rack ServerA ”No-compromise” balance of CPU, Memory, Storage, IO expansion in a 4RU form-factor with the flexibility to scale

FCS

Q3CY

2017



128GB

• Supports up to 32 SAS/SATA HDD/SSD/NVMe

• Supports up to 6 GPU

• Supports up to 12 PCIe Slots





UCS C480 M5 Performance Optimized 4S Rack Server

48 DDR4 DIMM Slots


Twelve PCIe 3.0 Slots

Four Full / Full - Four NCSI


Up to 24 front accessible, Up

to 8 top accessible.

SAS/SATA/SSD/NVMe/PCIe

SSD capable

Four CPUs

Intel® Xeon® Processor

Scalable Family


GPU Support

Support Gen3

GPUsPCIe

Scalable

Ability to scale from 2S to 4S

using 2x 2S rack server

modules

Cisco UCS C480 M5 Rack Server

12 PCIe 3.0 slots

Optional 8x Drives

(SAS/SATA/SSD/

NVMe)

Redundant Fans

Up to 24 SFF

drives or 16

drives with

DVD

TPM 2.0 (and 1.2)

RAID Controller

Up to 2 CPU Node

Cisco UCS C480 M5 Rack ServerUCSC-C480-M5 Server Front View

Cisco UCS C480 M5 Rack ServerUCS C480 M5 Server Rear View

Cisco UCS C480 M5 Rack ServerUCS C480 M5 Server Top Level View

Cisco UCS C480 M5 Rack ServerUCS C480 M5 CPU Module Top Level View



• Supports up to four Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake) CPUs across dual CPU modules

• Each CPU module supports up to 24 DDR4 DIMMs, up to 2666 MHz (12 DIMMs per CPU, RDIMM/LRDIMM support) – total of 48 DIMMs

• Multi-bit ECC


• Network Management / IO – Removable IO module


• Two 10-Gb BASE-T Ethernet LAN ports (Intel X550 Sageville controller)







C220 M5 C240 M5 C480 M5 S3260

Form Factor 1RU 2RU 4RU 4RU

Max # SFF HDD/SSD 10 26 32 28

Max # LFF Drives 4 12 n/a 60

Max # NVMe 10* 10* 32 8

Max Capacity SFF HDD: 32TB

SFF SSD: 40TBLFF HDD: 64TB

NVMe: 160TB

SFF HDD:

76.8TBSFF SSD: 96TB

LFF HDD: 256TBNVMe: 160TB

SFF HDD: 122TB

SFF SSD: 128TBLFF HDD: n/a

NVMe: 512TB

SFF HDD: n/a

SFF SSD: 89.6TBLFF HDD: 720TB

(w/12TB HDD)NVMe: 11.4TB

Capacity-Based Cisco UCS M5 Portfolio

Capacity

*With NVMe Optimized specific SKU, post-FCS

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Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Server

100% more memory and 10% more bandwidth*Up to 3 TB

56 cores: 20% more cores per socket*2 x Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors

33% more PCIe lanes per socket*

Up to 80 Gigabit

Ethernet I/O

Double the number of

GPUs*GPU has 1.7x performance

improvement*

4x VDI users*

55% more storage*: 20.5 TBUp to 15.4 TB NVMe

Up to 1.92 TB M.2

Up to 3.2 TB PCIe f lash

* Compared to M4 generation

Number 1 blade server for virtualization, converged infrastructure, and applications


Cisco UCS B200 M5 Internals

Tw o Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors VIC mLOM dedicated slot

TPM 2.0 (and 1.2)

24 DIMMs (3D XPoint ready)

Modular SD

or M.2

1x front

mezzanine slot:

Choice of RAID

controller and drive

cage or front GPU

1x rear mezzanine slot x16

PCIe 3.0:

Choice of VIC expander, VIC

mezzanine card, f lash

storage, or rear GPU


Cisco UCS B200 M5 Internals with two GPUs


Cisco UCS B480 M5 4S Blade Server

20% better memory bandwidth*Up to 6 TB

112 cores: 14% more cores per socket*4 x Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors

17% more PCIe lanes per socket*

Up to 160 Gigabit Ethernet I/O Quadruple the number of

GPUs*GPU has 1.7x performance improvement*

80% more storage*: 39 TB30.8 TB NVMe

Up to 1.92 TB M.2

Up to 6.4 TB PCIe flash

* Compared to previous-generation 4S server

High-performance platform designed for computation-intensive and

memory-intensive enterprise workloads


Cisco UCS B480 M5 Internals

Modular SD FlexFlash

or

Modular M.2 (SATA or NVMe)

x16 PCIe 3.0 slot

Fabric and f lash options

VIC dedicated slot

Cisco UCS® VIC 1300 and

1400 platform options

48 DIMM and 3D XPoint sockets

Multiple modular GPUs

(up to 4 w ith rear

mezzanine card)

TPM 2.0 (and 1.2)

4 x Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors

Full-mesh UPI topology


Cisco UCS B480 M5 Internals with four GPUs

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What is UCS Project Starship?


Project Starship

Simplicity

Agility

Efficiency

Scale

Intuitive

Adaptive

Automated

Semi-AutomatedManual

Hand-crafted:

Server-focused

Stateless Computing:

Policy-focused

DIY Workflows:Infrastructure-focused

Intent-Based:

Application-focused

AI Powered:

Optimization-focused

Inflection Point:

• Cloud Managed Infrastructure

• ML / AI for Operation Analytics

Past Future


Starship is SaaS Delivery of UCS Differentiation

Serv er

Tools

Network

Tools

Storage

Tools

Conventional Infrastructure

Silos of Manual Element Management

UCS Central

Global Resource Pooling and Policy Management

Cloud-Managed

Cisco Hosted | MSP Hosted |Customer Hosted

UCS Director

Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Orchestration

Third Party Infrastructure

• Infrastructure Management and Orchestration-as-a-Service

• Global Resource and Policy Management

• Analytics, Machine Learning, Recommendation Engine,Autonomic Functions

UCS Manager

Unif ied Element Management

Policy -Based Automation

Starship

UCS Today:

Operational Experience via Software Stack

UCS Future:

Operational Experience via SaaS


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Starship: Strategic Advantage for IT

Service ProviderSaaS from Cisco Private Cloud

Deployment Choice

Simplified Management

Experience @ Global Scale

End-to-End

Diagnostics with Real Time Alerting

Analytics-Driven

Actionable Intelligence

Programmable

Infrastructure

Connected

Proactive Support

!


Project Starship

Intent-based

Simplicity

Easy for development and operations

Continuous

Optimization

Let machines manage the machines

Agile

Delivery

Respond quickly to new opportunities

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