Datasheet

Cisco UCS B230 M2 Blade Server
BASE SERVER STANDARD CAPABILITIES and FEATURES
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BASE SERVER STANDARD CAPABILITIES and FEATURES
Table 1 lists the capabilities and features of the base server. Details about how to configure the server for
a particular feature or capability (for example, number of processors, disk drives, or amount of memory)
are provided in
CONFIGURING the SERVER on page 6.
Table 1 Capabilities and Features
Capability/Feature Description
Chassis The B230 M2 Blade Server mounts in a Cisco UCS 5100-series chassis
CPU Either 1 or 2 Intel® Xeon® E7-2800 or E7-8800 series processors
Chipset Intel® 7510 chipset
Memory 32 slots for registered DIMMs, up to 512 GB.
Expansion slots One mezzanine slot is provided
Storage controller LSI SAS 2008 RAID controller (onboard version of LSI MegaRAID 9240)
Internal storage devices Up to two optional front-accessible, hot-swappable low-height 7 mm form
factor SATA solid-state disk drives (SSDs).
Video The server CIMC chip includes a Matrox G200 core. The first 8 MB of memory
are allocated to the video core.
Interfaces One front-accessible console connector (see ORDER OPTIONAL KVM CABLE
on page 24)
Power subsystem Integrated in the Cisco UCS 5100 series chassis
Fans Integrated in the Cisco UCS 5100 series chassis
Integrated management
processor
The built-in Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) GUI or CLI
interface enables you to monitor the server inventory, health, and system
event logs.