The Cisco UCS B200 M5 Blade Server delivers performance, flexibility, and optimization for deployments in data centers, in the cloud, and at remote sites. This enterprise-class server offers market-leading performance, versatility, and density without compromise for workloads, including Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), web infrastructure, distributed databases, converged infrastructure, and enterprise applications such as Oracle and SAP HANA. The B200 M5 server can quickly deploy stateless physical and virtual workloads through programmable, easy-to-use Cisco UCS Manager and Cisco Intersight^™ and simplified server access through Cisco SingleConnect technology. It includes:

? 2^nd Gen Intel^® Xeon^® Scalable and Intel Xeon Scalable processors with up to 28 cores per socket

? Up to 24 DDR4 DIMMs for improved performance with up to 12 DIMM slots ready for Intel Optane^™ DC Persistent Memory

? Up to 2 GPUs

? Up to 2 Small Form-Factor (SFF) drives

? Up to 2 SD cards or M.2 SATA drives

? Up to 80 Gbps of I/O throughput

Main features

The Cisco UCS B200 M5 server is a half-width blade. Up to eight servers can reside in the 6-Rack-Unit (6RU) Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis, offering one of the highest densities of servers per rack unit of blade chassis in the industry. You can configure the B200 M5 to meet your local storage requirements without having to buy, power, and cool components that you do not need.

The Cisco UCS B200 M5 provides these main features:

? Up to two 2^nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable and Intel Xeon Scalable processors with up to 28 cores per CPU

? 24 DIMM slots for industry-standard DDR4 memory at speeds up to 2933 MHz, with up to 3 TB of total memory when using 128-GB DIMMs. Up to 12 DIMM slots ready for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory to accommodate up to 6 TB of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory

? Modular LAN on Motherboard (mLOM) card with Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1440 or 1340, a 2-port, 40-Gigabit Ethernet (GE), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)-capable mLOM mezzanine adapter

? Optional rear mezzanine VIC with two 40-Gbps unified I/O ports or two sets of 4 x 10-Gbps unified I/O ports, delivering 80 Gbps to the server; adapts to either 10- or 40-Gbps fabric connections

? Two optional, hot-pluggable, Hard Disk Drives (HDDs), Solid-State Drives (SSDs), or Nonvolatile Memory Express (NVMe) 2.5-inch drives with a choice of enterprise-class Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) or pass-through controllers

? Support for Optional SD Card or M.2 SATA drives for flexible boot and local storage capabilities

? Support for up to 2 optional GPUs

? Support for one rear storage mezzanine card

? Support for one 16-GB internal flash USB drive