The enterprise-class Cisco UCS® B480 M5 Blade Server delivers market-leading performance, versatility, and density without compromise for memory-intensive mission-critical enterprise applications and virtualized workloads, among others.With the B480 M5, you can quickly deploy stateless physical and virtual workloads with the programmability that Cisco UCS Manager and Cisco® SingleConnect technology enable. Customers gain support for Intel® Xeon® scalable processors.

The enterprise-class Cisco UCS® B480 M5 Blade Server delivers market-leading performance, versatility, and density without compromise for memory-intensive mission-critical enterprise applications and virtualized workloads, among others.With the B480 M5, you can quickly deploy stateless physical and virtual workloads with the programmability that Cisco UCS Manager and Cisco® SingleConnect technology enable. Customers gain support for Intel® Xeon® scalable processors.

Specifications

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Specifications

Form factor

●  Full-width blade server mounts in a Cisco UCS 5100 Series Blade Server Chassis

●  Up to 4 Cisco UCS B480 M5 Blade Servers can be installed per blade server chassis

Processors

Four Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and second generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors

Memory

48 DDR4 DIMM slots: 16, 32, 64, 128, and 256 GB up to 2933 DDR4 DIMMs

Mezzanine slots

5 PCIe 3.0 mezzanine slots:

●  1 slot supports the Cisco UCS VIC 1340 adapter only

●  2 mezzanine-card slots support Cisco adapters, Cisco UCS storage accelerators, and GPUs

●  2 front mezzanine slots support NVIDIA GPUs

Storage controller

●  Diskless system (no drive bays or RAID controller), or

●  Cisco FlexStorage ™ 12-Gbps SAS RAID controller with Hard-Disk-Drive (HDD) cage, providing up to 12-Gbps SAS connectivity

●  Cisco FlexStorage 12-Gbps SAS RAID controller with 2-GB cache, Flash-Backed Write Cache (FBWC), and HDD cage, providing up to 12-Gbps SAS connectivity

●  Cisco FlexStorage PCI Express (PCIe) Solid-State Disk (SSD) and pass through module with HDD cage

Storage devices

Up to 4 optional, front-accessible, hot-swappable 2.5-inch Small Form Factor (SFF) SAS or SATA HDDs, SSDs, and PCIe NVMe drives

Other storage

●  Dual internal Cisco FlexFlash SD cards (32, 64, and 128 GB) for installing an operating system or hypervisor; the second SD card can be used to mirror the first

●  Dual M.2 SATA SSD (240, 480, and 960 GB)

Management

●  Cisco® Intersight™

●  Cisco UCS Manager

●  Cisco UCS Central Software

●  Cisco UCS Director

●  Cisco UCS Performance Manager

Hardware and software interoperability

See the Cisco Hardware and Software Interoperability List for a complete listing of supported operating systems and peripheral options