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The Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System simplifies your data center, adapting to the unpredictable needs of modern applications while also providing for traditional scale-out and enterprise workloads. It reduces the number of server types to maintain, helping to improve operational efficiency and agility as it helps reduce complexity. Powered by the Cisco Intersight cloud operations platform, it shifts your thinking from administrative details to business outcomes-with hybrid cloud infrastructure that is assembled from the cloud, shaped to your workloads, and continuously optimized.

The Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System simplifies your data center, adapting to the unpredictable needs of modern applications while also providing for traditional scale-out and enterprise workloads. It reduces the number of server types to maintain, helping to improve operational efficiency and agility as it helps reduce complexity. Powered by the Cisco Intersight^™ cloud-operations platform, it shifts your IT focus from administrative details to business outcomes-with hybrid cloud infrastructure that is assembled from the cloud, shaped to your workloads, and continuously optimized.

The Cisco UCS C480 M5 High-Performance Rack Server (Figure 1) is a four-rack-unit (4RU) server supporting the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® processor scalable family CPUs.

The C480 M5 has the following features:

• 2nd Generation Intel ® Xeon ® Scalable Processors.
• DDR4-2933MHz memory DIMMs.
• 128 GB, 256 GB, and 512 GB Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory Modules (PMem).
• Up to 18 TB of memory is available if the memory slots are populated as follows:
• 24 x 256 GB DDR4 DIMMs
• 24 x 512 GB PMem
• Up to 12 TB is possible using only 48 x 256 GB DDR4 RDIMMs.

12 PCI Express (PCIe) expansion slots support Cisco UCS C-Series network adapters storage controllers, and up to 10 GPUs, with additional I/O provided by two 10GBase-T LOM ports and one 1GbE dedicated out-of-band (OOB) management port. A separate PCIe slot is reserved inside the chassis for a RAID controller card.

The Cisco UCS C460 M4 High-Performance Rack Server is a four-rack-unit (4RU) server supporting the Intel Xeon E7-8800 v2/v3, E7-4800 v2/v3, or E7-2800 v2 (Ivy Bridge EX) series processor family CPUs, with up to 6 terabytes (TB) of double-data-rate 3 (DDR3) or DDR4 memory in 96 slots, and up to 12 small form factor (SFF), hot-swappable2 SAS and SATA disk drives.

The UCS C240 M6 SFF server extends the capabilities of Cisco's Unified Computing System portfolio in a 2U form factor with the addition of the 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors (Ice Lake), 16 DIMM slots per CPU for 3200-MHz DDR4 DIMMs with DIMM capacity points up to 256 GB. The maximum memory capacity for 2 CPUs is listed here:

• 8 TB (32 x 256 GB DDR4 DIMMs), or
• 12 TB (16 x 256 GB DDR4 DIMMs1 and 16 x 512 GB Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory Modules (PMEMs)).