Announcing Cisco UCS

X-Series Direct and UCS

M8 servers
Speakers:
Helena Tsai – Engineering Product Manager, Cisco UCS
February 13, 2024
Oliver Walsdorf - Sr. Product Manager, Cisco UCS
AMERICAS Maria Spiritto Ditrolio – Partner Sales Business Development Manager

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Agenda

New! UCS C245 M8 rack servers

New! UCS X-Series Direct

Q&A

Partner resources

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New! UCS C245 M8 rack servers
Powered by AMD EPYC 4th Gen processors

Helena Tsai – Engineering Product Manager, Cisco UCS

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UCS AMD 2S Rack & Blade Server Roadmap

CY 23 CY 24 CY 25 CY 26

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

UCS C245 M6/ AMD Rome/Milan/Milan-X

UCS C245 M6

UCS C225 M6/ AMD Rome/Milan/Milan-X

Rack UCS C225 M6
Servers
AMD

C245 M8 Supports all 4: AMD Genoa/Genoa-X/Bergamo/Turin

UCS C245 M8

C225 M8 Supports all 4: AMD Genoa/Genoa-X/Bergamo/Turin

UCS C225 M8 Quotability
Orderability
Blade X-215c M8 Supports all 4: AMD Genoa/Genoa-X/Bergamo/Turin
Server UCS X-215c M8

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AMD EPYC 700x & 900x Series Roadmap Update

March 2022 Turin

March 2021 MilanX Genoa-X 5th Gen EPYC
Milan Genoa Bergamo 4th Gen EPYC
Milan–X 4 Gen EPYC
th 4th Gen EPYC Turin Dense
Milan 3rd Gen EPYC Genoa + large L3 SP5, Up to 192 cores,
3rd Gen EPYC Genoa + highest cache Up to 1.15GB ~500w
SP3 Platform SP5 Platform thread density L3
Milan + large L3 cache Zen4 96 cores, 5nm architecture ~360w Turin Classic
SP3 Platform
8CH DDR4-3200 ~360W, 128 Zen4c cores Up to 128 cores.
Zen3 64 cores, 7nm
~280w, 8CH DDR4-3200 Up to 768MB L3 ~360w Designed for technical ~500w
~280w 12CH DDR5-4800 computing
128L PCIe4.0
160L PCIe5.0/64L Optimized for TurinX
Up to 25% perf vs Rome
Designed for technical CXL Perf/watt 1.536GB L3 cache
computing (+40%
+ 10 Rome CPU SKUs uplift) High perf per socket & 12CH DDR5-6000
Featured as part of the per core
Milan Portfolio CXL 2.0

SP3 Platform
Zen2 64 cores, 7nm
225W, 8CH DDR4-3200

Cisco UCS M6 Cisco UCS M8

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4th & 5th GEN Genoa Series Based
C225M8 & C245M8

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Cisco UCS M8 Rack Servers with AMD EPYC
2RU form factor for a wide range of workloads

Cisco UCS 245 M8

Dual socket, 2RU
Up to 256 cores

Up to 28 SFF HDD/SSD drives

PCIe 5.0 D4800 MT/s DIMMs

Support for
Open Compute Project 3.0 24 DIMM slots
4 Gen EPYC CPUs
th
15000 Series Virtual Interface Card Up to 6 TB of memory
5th Gen ready Design

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 M8 AMD Rack Server Designs
Top View Top View
UCS C245 M8 2U, 2S, 24 DIMMs 1U, 1S, 24 DIMMs UCS C225 M8

Core Platform Core Platform

2RU, Dual Socket Platform 1RU, Single Socket Platform
Support for Genoa, Genoa-X, Bergamo Support for Genoa, Genoa-X, Bergamo CPUs
CPUs Turin ready
Turin-ready Full complement of memory – 12xDDR5 DIMMs
Support for 24xDDR5 DIMMs (1DPC - 12 PCIe Gen 5 support, CXL 1.1 ready
channel)
PCIe Gen 5 support, CXL1.1 ready

6 x DIMMs

6 x DIMMs
Key Features
DIMMs

DIMMs
DIMMs
CPU
Key Features CPU 1 CPU 2

12 x
6x

6x
Up to 10 x 2.5-inch SAS and SATA HDDs/ SSDs and
Up to 28 x 2.5-inch SAS and SATA HDDs/ NVMe SSDs – SFF and Native NVME SKU
SSDs and NVMe SSDs and Native NVME SKU Support for NVMe boot
Support for OCP Adapters through interposer Support for OCP Adapters through an interposer
Up to 8xGPU support Up to 3x HHHL GPU support

VICs
VICs
15425 Quad Port 10/25/50G
15425 Quad Port 10/25/50G 15235 Dual Port 40/100/200G
15235 Dual Port 40/100/200G 15427 4x 10/25/50G mLOM C-Series w/Secure Boot
15427 4x 10/25/50G mLOM C-Series w/Secure Boot 15237 2x 40/100/200G mLOM C-Series w/Secure
15237 2x 40/100/200G mLOM C-Series w/Secure Boot Boot

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System Specification – C225 M8 with AMD 4th Gen EPYC Processor
Item Specifications
Form factor 1RU rack server
Processors 1x 4th Gen AMD EPYC (Genoa, GenoaX, Bergamo processors. Turin-ready
Memory 12 DDR5-4800 DIMM slots (12 DIMMS per CPU): 16, 32, 48, 64, 96, 128, 256GB at up to 4800 MT/s for up to 3TB of memory

PCIe expansion Up to 3 PCIe 4.0 slots or up to 2 PCIe 5.0slots plus 1 dedicated 24-Gbps RAID controller slot and 1 dedicated mLOM/OCP 3.0 slot
RAID controllers Internal controllers:
◦ Cisco 24-Gbps modular tri-mode controller supports SAS 4 or NVMe hardware RAID
◦ Cisco 12-Gbps modular RAID controller (PCIe 4.0) with 4-GB Flash-Backed Write Cache (FBWC), or
◦ Cisco 12-Gbps modular SAS Host Bus Adapter (HBA)
● External controller: Cisco 12-Gbps 9500-8e SAS HBA
Internal storage Backplane options:
◦ Up to 10 x 2.5-inch SAS and SATA HDDs, SSD, NVMe drives, with the option of up to 4 direct-attach NVMe drives
◦ Up to 10 x 2.5-inch NVMe PCIe SSDs (all direct-attach PCIe Gen4x4)
mLOM/OCP 3.0 ● One dedicated PCIe Gen4x16 slot that can be used to add an mLOM or OCP 3.0 card for additional rear-panel connectivity
● mLOM slot can flexibly accommodate 10/25/5010/25/40, and 40/100/200 100-Gbps Cisco VIC adapters.
● OCP 3.0 slot features full out-of-band manageability that supports Intel X710 OCP Dual 10GBase-T via mLOM interposer.
Power supplies Hot-pluggable, redundant platinum and titanium options:
● Platinum: 770W AC, 1050W DC, and 1600W AC
● Titanium: 1200W AC, and 2300W AC

Other storage ● Dedicated Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) FlexMMC for utilities (on board)
● Dual M.2 SATA/NVMe SSDs with HW RAID support
Management ● Cisco Intersight
● Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC)
● Cisco UCS Manager
Rack options ● Cisco ball-bearing rail kit with optional reversible cable management arm
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Hardware and software See the Cisco Hardware and Software Interoperability List for a complete listing of supported operating systems and peripheral options.
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 Target workloads

HCI
HPC VIRTUALIZATION CLOUD DATA ANALYTICS
& VDI

• CPU optimized for • High core count to • High core count to • High parallelism for • Highly parallelized CPU • Direct SATA and
GPU acceleration enable dense user base meet SLAs complex analysis optimized for GPU NVMe Support
acceleration
• Massive I/O for cluster • Large memory capacity • Large memory • Massive I/O • High parallelism for low
connectivity enabling more VMs capacity enabling bandwidth for fast • High parallelism for latency
more VMs data loading real-time data streams
• Memory capacity for • Secure Encrypted • More L3 cache for fast
large datasets Virtualization (SEV) • Enabling Confidential • High integer and • High core count for data processing
Cloud Computing floating-point capacity inference
• Massive I/O bandwidth • Massive I/O for scale-out • Full memory
for NVMe drives environments • Massive I/O for scale- • Additional security • Massive I/O bandwidth encryption, helping
out environments features for business- for NVMe drives improve data security
• Single socket enabling
critical data
TCO advantages in
socket-based licensed
solutions

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 Customer Wins
Deal Size: $30M
Segment: Global Financial Services improves
VDI performance & employee experience

Challenges Solution
• Existing VDI could not • Cisco UCS C245M6 and
keep up with the Pure Storage FlashStack
demands of modern hybrid cloud
applications infrastructure, AMD
(Windows 10) for EPYC 64 Core CPUs
150,000 remote users doubled their density of
requiring more cores VDI clients per server
per user
Results
• Expanded their data
• Adding more vCPUs center capacity without
was not a good long- adding rack space
term solution
• An overall solution that
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Customer Wins
Deal Size: $7M
Segment: Media and Entertainment
Enterprise/Service Provider
Challenges
• As their user base expanded, the sports betting
platform began facing performance bottlenecks

Solution
• Cisco UCS C225M6 with AMD EPYC 64 core processors
delivers:
• Enhanced Performance
• Scalability
• Power Efficiency
• Security and Reliability
• Cost Efficiency

Results
• Tripled its CPU density with a minimal increase in power
usage using Cisco UCS and AMD EPYC technology
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New! UCS X-Series Direct
Designed for the edge and smaller UCS X-Series deployments

Olli Walsdorf – Sr. UCSX Product Manager

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“Collectively, we believe there is a
great opportunity for a broad set of
innovations in compute, GPU, networking,
software and services to support AI core
and edge infrastructure.”

Chuck Robbins
Cisco Chief Executive Officer

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Market Drivers: Edge
• Edge Infrastructure to grow 22% CAGR – Servers/Storage/HCI. Main drivers
are IoT and AI/ML, also Robotics, AR/VR, Carrier Edge
• Grows from 17% of Server/Storage/HCI spend in 2022 to 28% by 2026

Source: IDC Edge Infrastructure Forecast, 2022

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Cisco Unified Edge Use Case
SASE Edge App Edge Enterprise Edge Carrier Edge
Connecting & securing Protecting and accelerating Infra platforms optimized for Use cases for Service Provider
users & devices applications & data distributed apps & data Edge assets

Application Networking
and Security

Secure DNS Cloud Runtime App Web App Video DCaaS Connected Private
Gateway Firewall Self Protection Firewall Analytics Cars LTE

DDoS BoT Detect

VPN DLP Zero Application and Content Delivery Industrial Retail Localization 5G
Trust IoT

Caching DNS

CASB CloudOnRamp SD-WAN Content and Enterprise

AI/ML AR/VR Media Delivery Services
Content Opt. Load Balancing

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Edge infrastructure that is radically simplified

UCS X-Series Direct powered by Cisco Intersight

Cloud Unparalleled
Future-ready
Operated Flexibility

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 U C S X - S E R I E S D I R E C T

Modernize at the edge

ToR Switches

UCS 9108 100G Fabric Interconnect

New edge solution for
hybrid cloud infrastructure at
1-16 compute node scale*

Flexible and powerful

Intersight/UCSM*
infrastructure to handle all
workloads:
• Compute
• Networking
(1/10/25/40/100G)
• Storage (8/16/32G)
• GPU
• IMM and UCSM*
• Same compute nodes /
Fans / Power Supplies /
Chassis Enterprise capability at edge scale
Connect up to 8 additional
compute nodes for more compute,
GPU, and storage
*Post-FCS

UP TO UP TO UP TO UP TO

68% CapEx
64%
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Savings
Better
Performance 52%
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Power 50% More18
sustainable
UCS X-SERIES DIRECT

Roadmap Orderability

Quotability

2023 2024
Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

UCS X-Series Direct

CLEUR EFT1 EFT2 FCS IMM FCS UCSM

EFT3

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UCS X-Direct
Expansion*
FCS Post-FCS
• FCS Release
• Up to 8 compute nodes
• X210c M6, X210c M7
• X410c M7
• Support of X-Fabric + X440p

• Post-FCS Release
• Up to 16 compute nodes
• X210c M6, X210c M7
• X215c M8
• X410c M7
*Post-FCS
• Support of X-Fabric + X440p

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Connectivity from Edge to Enterprise
Intersight/UCSM*

FI 6400/6500
X-Direct

Scale at the edge Scale your enterprise

• Up to two X-Series • Up to 20 X-Series chassis
chassis* • Up to 160 compute nodes
• Up to 16 compute nodes* • From medium to large
• Up to 3,200 Gbps* scale enterprise
throughput* environments
• Up to 1,440 TB capacity* • Perfect fit for all kind of
• Perfect fit for most applications
applications at the edge
*Post-FCS for X-Direct

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Target market segments for X-Direct

Segment
Far Edge+ / Remote Branch Remote Branch+/
Micro DC / Small DC Medium DC
Factory, Mine, Oil Rig,
State, Municipalities, DoD, Navy, ”Big”
Description Small hospitals
remote branch,
remote branch
medium business

# of Nodes 2-6 Compute Nodes 4-12 Compute Nodes 8-30 Compute Nodes

X-Direct or Racks w/
Solution US -> Racks
local storage for new
ACI Solution (N9K/FI
Preference Europe -> X-Direct
deployments
Integration)
Simplicity Driven,
Cost Sensitive, One Vendor, security
Drivers Security and Privacy
Performance and privacy
Conscious
Use NAS/Local Typically Use SAN w/
Notes Storage FC

Compute Requirements
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Target solutions for X-Direct
VSI/VDI Container

Converged
Data Protection
Infrastructures

Intersight/UCS
Hyperconverged M
AI/ML
Infrastructures

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 Deployment options

Intersight.com
Cisco-hosted SaaS

Virtual appliance
Connected
Private (air-gapped)

UCS Manager
Unified management

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Put it straight
UCS X-SERIES DIRECT

Customer Demand Any Size - Any Location

Datacenter Remote Branch

Remote Branch+ Far Edge
Small DC
Far Edge+ Enterprise
Micro DC Public
Medium DC
Commercial
Any Workload Customer Savings

Sustainability through
integrated FI
CapEx and OpEx savings
through
Consolidation improvement
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