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offer an unprecedented opportunity to dramatically advance the efficiency of IT infrastructure and provide
unmatched business capabilities.
Figure 10. Intel Xeon 5600 Series Processor
3.2.8 Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade Server
The Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade Server is a half-width, two-socket blade server. The system uses two Intel Xeon
5600 Series Processors, up to 96 GB of DDR3 memory, two optional hot-swappable small form factor (SFF) serial
attached SCSI (SAS) disk drives, and a single mezzanine connector for up to 20 Gbps of I/O throughput. The
server balances simplicity, performance, and density for production-level virtualization and other mainstream data
center workloads.
Figure 11. Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade Server
3.2.9 Cisco UCS B250 M2 Extended Memory Blade Server
The Cisco UCS B250 M2 Extended Memory Blade Server is a full-width, two-socket blade server featuring Cisco
Extended Memory Technology. The system supports two Intel Xeon 5600 Series Processors, up to 384 GB of
DDR3 memory, two optional SFF SAS disk drives, and two mezzanine connections for up to 40 Gbps of I/O
throughput. The server increases performance and capacity for demanding virtualization and large-data-set
workloads with greater memory capacity and throughput.