Cisco Announces UCS X210c M7 and UCS X410c M7 Blade Servers

As expected, I’m starting to see the blade server vendors unveil their next generations of product based in the 4th Generation Intel Xeon SP CPUs.  It looks like Cisco was first to announce, as I haven’t seen any other blade server vendor announce.  In today’s blog post, I’ll highlight what’s been released about Cisco’s latest announcements.

UCS X210c M7

CPU
Supports up to 2 x 4th Generation Intel Xeon SP CPUs.  The At-A-Glance page says the server will support up to 60 cores per socket, however I believe that was a typo, as it’s expected that only servers that support 4 CPUs will be eligible for the 60 core CPUs.

Memory
This blade server will support 32 DIMMs of DDR5 with starting speeds of 4800MT/s (at 1 DIMM per channel.)  It’s believed this system will support up to 256GB RDIMMs.

I/O
Cisco reports that this blade server will support the following virtual interface cards (VIC):

  • Cisco UCS VIC 15231 modular LAN on Motherboard (mLOM), two-port, 2x100Gbps

  • Cisco UCS VIC 15420 mLOM, four-port, 4x25Gbps

  • Cisco UCS VIC 15422 mezzanine, four-port, 4x25Gbps

Storage
The UCS X210c M7 will support up to 6 x SAS/SATA or NVMe drives.  In addition, it lists support for up to 2 x M.2 960GB SATA with optional hardware RAID or up to 2 x M.2 960GB NVMe with Intel VROC RAID.

Expansion
There is 1 mezzanine slot that supports a Cisco FlexStorage RAID controller, Cisco FlexStorage passthrough OR 2 drives and up to 2 GPUs.  It also lists the optional support to connect to 1 UCS X440p PCIe node.

Read more about the UCS X210c M7 here.

UCS X410c M7

CPU
Supports up to 4 x 4th Generation Intel Xeon SP CPUs supporting up to 60 cores.

Memory
This blade server will support 64 DIMMs of DDR5 with starting speeds of 4800MT/s (at 1 DIMM per channel.)  It’s believed this system will support up to 256GB RDIMMs.

I/O
Cisco reports that this blade server will support the following virtual interface cards (VIC):

  • Cisco UCS VIC 15231 modular LAN on Motherboard (mLOM), two-port, 2x100Gbps

  • Cisco UCS VIC 15420 mLOM, four-port, 4x25Gbps

  • Cisco UCS VIC 15422 mezzanine, four-port, 4x25Gbps

Storage
The UCS X410c M7 will support up to 6 x SAS/SATA or NVMe drives.  In addition, it lists support for up to 2 x M.2 960GB SATA with optional hardware RAID or up to 2 x M.2 960GB NVMe with Intel VROC RAID.

Expansion
There is 1 mezzanine slot that supports a Cisco FlexStorage RAID controller, Cisco FlexStorage passthrough OR 2 drives and up to 2 GPUs.  It also lists the optional support to connect to 1 UCS X440p PCIe node.

Read more about the UCS X410c M7 here.

 

Kevin Houston is the founder of BladesMadeSimple.com. With over 24 years of experience in the x86 server marketplace Kevin has a vast array of competitive x86 server knowledge and certifications as well as an in-depth understanding of VMware virtualization. He has worked at Dell Technologies since August 2011 and is a Principal Engineer supporting the East Enterprise Region and is also a CTO Ambassador for the Office of the CTO at Dell Technologies.

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