Thursday, 27 June 2013

Introduction to Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS)

OVERVIEW

The UCS 5108 chassis is a 6RU chassis the that can accommodate up to 8 half-width blades or 4 full-width blades, or any combination that will fit in the chassis. The chassis has two I/O bays for Fabric Extenders such as the UCS 2208XP.

Figure 1 shows the front and rear views of a 5108 chassis filled the following blade servers (starting from top):
■ Two Cisco UCS B200 M3 half-width blade servers
■ One Cisco UCS B250 M2 full-width blade server
■ One Cisco UCS B420 M3 full-width blade server
■ One Cisco UCS B440 M2 full-width blade server




                    




DETAILED VIEWS

Chassis Front Views
Figure 3 is a detailed front view of the Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis with eight half-width blade servers installed.

Figure 3 5108 Chassis Front View With Eight Half-Width Blade Servers Installed





Cisco UCS Blade Server 




new UCS Chassis

Cisco UCS Whiteboard part 1


Cisco UCS Whiteboard part 2