Cisco UCS-EZ7-B22-E server 0 GB Blade Intel® Xeon® E5 Family E5-2420 1.9 GHz 48 GB DDR3-SDRAM

The Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS™) combines Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers and C-Series Rack Servers with networking and storage access in a single converged system that simplifies management and delivers greater cost efficiency and agility with increased visibility and control. The latest server expansion of the Cisco UCS portfolio includes the new Cisco UCS B22 M3 Server. This new server increases compute density through more cores and cache balanced with more memory capacity and drives and faster I/O. Together these server improvements and complementary Cisco UCS system advancements deliver the best combination of features and cost efficiency to support IT's diverse needs.

The Cisco UCS B22 M3 Blade Server delivers a feature set with a balanced price-to-performance ratio to help enable quick deployment of scalable IT infrastructure and Web 2.0 applications. The Cisco UCS B22 M3 harnesses the power of the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 product family with expandability to 384 GB of RAM (using 32-GB DIMMs), two hot-pluggable drives, two PCI Express (PCIe) mezzanine slots, and up to eight 10 Gigabit throughput connections. In addition, Cisco delivers the architectural advantage of not having to power and cool excess switches in each Cisco UCS blade chassis. Having a larger power budget per blade server enables Cisco to design uncompromised expandability and versatility in its blade servers, as evidenced by the dense and price-to-performance-optimized Cisco UCS blade servers, with their leading memory slot and drive capacities.

The Cisco UCS B22 M3 provides:

- Two, multi-core, Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2400 product family CPU sockets, for up to 16 processing cores
- 12 DIMM slots for industry-standard double-data-rate 3 (DDR3) memory running up to 1600 MHz and up to 384 GB of total memory (using 32-GB DIMMs)
- Two optional, hot-pluggable SAS or SATA hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid-state drives (SSDs)
- Built-in Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) GUI or CLI interfaces enables one to monitor the server inventory, health, and system event logs

The Cisco UCS B22 M3 is a half-width blade (Figure 1). Up to eight of these high-density, two-socket blade servers can reside in the 6RU Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis, offering one of the highest densities of servers per rack unit in the industry.

Another Cisco innovation, the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1240, is a 4-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)-capable modular LAN on motherboard (LOM) designed exclusively for the M3 generation of Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers.

The Cisco UCS VIC 1240 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 VIC 1240 supports Cisco® Data Center Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology, which extends the Cisco UCS fabric interconnect ports to virtual machines, simplifying server virtualization deployment.