Description
Designed for demanding virtualization and database workloads, the UCS B480 M5 combines a large memory
footprint with four-socket scalability, leveraging the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors. higher
density 256G DDR4 DIMMs, new second-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, and the new Intel®
Optane DC Persistent Memory. Additionally, these B480 M5 servers offer up to 12 terabytes (TB) of DDR4
memory or 18 TB using 24x256G DDR4 DIMMs and 24x512G Intel® Optane DC Persistent Memory; four SAS,
SATA, and NVMe drives; M.2 storage; up to four GPUs and 160 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for I/O
throughput, all leading to exceptional performance, flexibility, and I/O throughput to run your most
demanding applications. Up to four UCS B480 M5 Blade Servers can be installed in the UCS 5108 Blade
Server Chassis.
The Cisco B480 M5 includes support for the following:
- 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors.
- DDR4-2933MHz memory DIMMs.
- 128 GB, 256 GB, and 512 GB Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory (PMem).
- Up to 18 TB of memory is available if the memory slots are populated as follows:
-24 x 256 GB DDR4 DIMMs
-24 x 512 GB PMem
The UCS B480 M5 Blade Server is centrally managed using Cisco UCS Manager. Cisco UCSM provides a single
management interface for all hardware and software components of a UCS domain. Cisco UCSM manages up
to 160 servers, using Single Connect Technology to consolidate network, storage, and management traffic.
With Cisco UCS Central, management can be extended globally to ‘of servers in multiple domains.
