Cisco UCS C240 M7 Server Installation and Service Guide - System Overview [Cisco UCS C240 M7 Rack Server] (2023)

FAQs

What are Cisco UCS servers used for? ›

The goal of a UCS product line is to simplify the number of devices that need to be connected, configured, cooled and secured and provide administrators with the ability to manage everything through a single graphical interface. The term unified computing system is often associated with Cisco.

If you register 100 Cisco UCS domains , the minimum storage space required to store statistics data for 1 year would be 2 TB. The minimum memory required for client system is 4 GB. However if you have 40 or more registered Cisco UCS Domains, it is recommended to have at least 8 GB memory on the client system.

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OVERVIEW. The UCS C240 M5 SFF server extends the capabilities of Cisco's Unified Computing System portfolio in a 2U form factor with the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors, 3200 MHz DDR4 memory, and the new 512GB Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory Modules (PMem).

Blade servers are managed by the Cisco UCS manager through the UCS Fabric, while rack servers can be managed both independently or by the Cisco UCS manager. Blade servers feature hot-swapping capabilities that allow components to be added or removed without switching off the servers.

Cisco announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco UCS Manager Release 4.0. The last day to order the affected product(s) is February 7, 2022.

The Cisco UCS cluster is a grouping of hypervisors that can be distributed across multiple hosts.

The Cisco UCS 6332-16UP 40-Port Fabric Interconnect is a 1RU 40 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE interconnect offering up to 2.43-Gbps throughput with 40 ports (Figure 5). The switch has 24 x 40 Gigabit Ethernet and FCoE ports and 16 unified ports.

Each Cisco UCS instance has a default user account, admin, which cannot be modified or deleted. This account is the system administrator or superuser account and has full privileges. There is no default password assigned to the admin account; you must choose the password during the initial system setup.

Both B-Series blade servers and C-Series rack-mount servers are designed with Intel Xeon CPUs. B-series blade servers can only be managed through UCS Manager, whereas C-series rack servers can either be individually managed or can be managed by UCS Manager.

What are the different modes of Cisco UCS? ›

UCS Fabric Interconnect supports two types of switching modes: End Host Mode (EHM) and standard Ethernet switching mode. The default switching mode is the End Host Mode which eliminates the use of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) on Fabric Interconnect.

About Cisco UCS Central

Cisco UCS Central does not replace Cisco UCS Manager, which is the basic engine for managing a Cisco UCS domain. Instead, it builds on the capabilities provided by Cisco UCS Manager and works with Cisco UCS Manager to effect changes in individual domains.

The Cisco Secure Network Server is a scalable solution that helps network administrators meet complex network access control demands by managing the many different operations that can place heavy loads on applications and servers.

The Cisco UCS chassis contains I/O Modules or Fabric Extenders that allow the blade servers in the chassis to communicate with Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects. The chassis supports up to two I/O Modules, each with four I/O ports.

Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) is a proprietary embedded server management technology from Hewlett-Packard (HP) that provides out-of-band management facilities for HP ProLiant servers.

Any organization can benefit from the power and versatility that servers provide, but it can be difficult to know which types of server hardware to choose. Today's servers are primarily available in three forms: racks, blades and mainframes.

Rack, blade, and tower are three types of servers used in data centers and enterprise environments.

A server rack makes it easy to manage and organize multiple components that one might need for networking and computing activities. Because the resale market is large and server components last a long time, people find themselves in situations where they have a server but don't necessarily want to invest in a rack.

Pressure to hit higher quotas, compensation caps, and changing sales strategies are making it harder for Cisco's salespeople to be paid fairly, and some of them are looking for the exits, according to a recent article in Business Insider.

What went wrong with Cisco? ›

Orders went out, parts began to pile up. Its raw-parts inventory ballooned more than 300 percent from the third quarter to the fourth quarter of 2000. Cisco's problems culminated in a $2.25 billion write-down. In short, Cisco simply wasn't able to scale up or down as quickly as it thought it could.

You can tag everything and not use a native VLAN throughout your network, and the VLAN or devices are reachable because switches use VLAN 1 as the native by default. The UCS Manager LAN Uplink Manager enables you to configure VLANs and to change the native VLAN setting.

The default VLAN is VLAN 1 , which cannot be deleted and is available on both FIs. VLAN 1 is also the native VLAN. VLANs can be configured in the range of 1-3967 and 4049-4093.

1. A Cisco router connects different networks together whereas, a switch connects multiple devices together to create a network. 2. Routers work on the Physical layer; Data link layer and the Network layer whereas Switches, as well as advanced switches, work on the Data link layer and the Network layer too.

Cisco has historically designed their own chips instead of using merchant silicon from Broadcom and the like. This increases costs. Cisco devices have a ton of advanced features that you can't find anywhere else, and that's expensive to develop.

Cisco recommends changing the password once access is gained using the default “Cisco1234” password.

Default SSH password: user "cisco" password "cisco"

The default username is admin, and the default password is admin.

What is better K series or B-Series? ›

The K series (left) has more material around the cylinder sleeves than the B series (right). This makes for a stronger block from the factory. The presence of timing gears makes it easy to identify a B engine from a K.

An important difference between the two series is that while events continuously change their position in the A series, their position in the B series does not. If an event ever is earlier than some events and later than the rest, it is always earlier than and later than those very events.

Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers deliver unified computing in an industry-standard form factor to reduce total cost of ownership and increase agility. Each product addresses varying workload challenges through a balance of processing, memory, I/O, and internal storage resources.

By default, Cisco routers have three levels of privilege—zero, user, and privileged. Zero-level access allows only five commands—logout, enable, disable, help, and exit.

Cisco offers two types of network switches: fixed configuration and modular switches.

While the servers compared are based on similar specs, the Cisco UCS provides a lower hardware cost by deploying simplified intra-chassis switching for blades and minimizing the number of adapters and ports required for rack servers. In blade configuration, Cisco UCS showed a 38% lower power and cooling cost.

The UCS portal makes all IT services easily accessible and data protection compliant. UCS is available as ready-configured software, is continuously maintained and further developed and has open interfaces so that you can connect IT services and integrate UCS into your IT infrastructure.

Cisco UCS Director is not a replacement for Cisco UCS Manager. Rather, Cisco UCS Director uses orchestration to automate some of the steps required to configure a Cisco UCS domain. In this way, Cisco UCS Director provides a statistical analysis of the data and a converged view of each pod.

MCS servers are the servers in the traditional sense, where you have an OS like Linux or the Unified Communications OS (UCOS for CUCM etc) running directly above the hardware. These are basically really strong PCs. UCS servers are primarily for virtualization.

What are the benefits of having Cisco UCS and Cisco MDS together? ›