Specifications

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Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server:
Uncompromised virtual desktop performance
APPENDIX A – SERVER AND STORAGE CONFIGURATION INFORMATION
Figure 8 provides detailed configuration information about the test servers. Note that we used the Cisco UCS
B200 M3 Blade Server for the systems under test and used two Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade Servers for our test bed
infrastructure. Figure 9 details the storage we used in our tests.
System
Cisco UCS B200 M3 server
2x Cisco UCS B200 M2 servers
General
Number of processor packages
2
2
Number of cores per processor
8
6
Number of hardware threads per core
2
2
System power management policy
OS Control
OS Control
CPUs
Vendor
Intel
Intel
Name
Xeon
Xeon
Model number
E5-2690
X5670
Stepping
6
CO
Socket type
LGA2011
LGA 1366
Core frequency (GHz)
2.90
2.93
Bus frequency
8.0 GT/s
6.4
L1 cache
32 KB + 32 KB
32 KB+ 32 KB (per core)
L2 cache
256 KB (per core)
256 KB (per core)
L3 cache
20 MB
12 MB
Platform
Vendor and model number
Cisco UCS B200 M3
Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade Server
Motherboard model number
Cisco FCH153271DA
N20-B6625-1
BIOS name and version
Cisco
B200M3.2.0.2a.0.0.22420121123
Cisco S5500.2.0.1d.093030111102
BIOS settings
Default
Default
Memory module(s)
Total RAM in system (GB)
384
96
Vendor and model number
Samsung® M393B2G70BH0-YK0
Samsung M393B5170FH0-YH9
Type
PC3L-12800R
DDR3 PC3-10600
Speed (MHz)
1,600
1,333
Speed running in the system (MHz)
1,066
1,333
Size (GB)
16
8
Number of RAM module(s)
24
12
Chip organization
Double-sided
Double-sided
Rank
Dual
Dual
Hard disk
Vendor and model number
Seagate® ST9146803SS
Seagate ST9146803SS
Number of disks in system
2
2
Size (GB)
146
146
RPM
15,000
10,000
Type
SAS
SAS