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4. Cisco Unified Computing System (“UC on UCS”)
4.1 General Information
For general information on Cisco Unified Computing System, see http://www.cisco.com/go/ucs.
For general information on Cisco Unified Communications support of the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS),
see http://www.cisco.com/go/swonly and http://www.cisco.com/go/uc-virtualized.
For B-Series Blade Server hardware End of Sale and End of Life, please see
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10280/prod_eol_notices_list.html.
For C-series General-Purpose Rack-Mount Server hardware End of Sale and End of Life, please see
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10493/prod_eol_notices_list.html .
For End of Sale and End of Life of Tested Reference Configurations for Cisco Unified Communications, see
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/voiceapp/ps378/prod_eol_notices_list.html
Note that hardware and software End of Sale have different dates and different timeframes.
Latest and greatest supported models/generations as of March 7, 2010 are as follows:
Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade Server, Tested Reference Configurations 1 and 2
Cisco UCS B200 M1 Blade Server, Tested Reference Configuration 1 and 2
Cisco UCS C210 M2 General-Purpose Rack-Mount Server, Tested Reference Configurations 1, 2 and 3
Cisco UCS C210 M1 General-Purpose Rack-Mount Server, Tested Reference Configurations 1,2, 3 and 4
Cisco UCS C200 M2 General-Purpose Rack-Mount Server, Tested Reference Configuration 1
All Reference Configurations are as defined at www.cisco.com/go/uc-virtualized.
Please see also the UCS data sheets at http://www.cisco.com/go/ucs.
Most UCS server offers may be purchased as either Collaboration SKUs or Data-Center SKUs. For reference, here
is a “decoder ring” for Collaboration UCS SKUs:
Part Number syntax is UCS-xxxxyy-VCzz.
It is sufficient to use only UCS wxxxyy to completely describe a Unified Computing System server
model/generation, e.g., “UCS B200M1” or “UCS C210M1”. The suffix -VCzz is used only to distinguish
different hardware configurations of the same server model/generation.
“UCS-” is to distinguish these SKUs from Cisco MCS 7800 SKUs.
xxxx is the server model as described at http://www.cisco.com/go/ucs: at this time “B200”,“C210” and “C200”
are the only supported server models.
yy is the server generation as described at http://www.cisco.com/go/ucs: at this time “M1or “M2” are the only
supported server generations. Note that C200 M1 is not supported, only C200 M2.
-VCzz is a suffix indicating a unique hardware configuration. Unlike Cisco MCS 7800, all Collaboration SKUs
for UCS ship as bare-metal, and a given SKU is applicable to any UC product that supports that server model.
Here are the suffixes used:
-VCS1:Virtualized Collaboration”, “SAN storage”, 1
st
configuration
-VCD1: “Virtualized Collaboration”, “Disks (or DAS) storage”, 1
st
configuration
-VCD2: “Virtualized Collaboration”, “Disks (or DAS) storage”, 2
nd
configuration