Cisco UCS B230 Blade Servers

The Cisco UCS B230 product family contains the UCS B230 M1 and UCS B230 M2 blade servers. Both the Cisco B230 M1 and Cisco B230 M2 feature a compact, half-width form factor. The B230 M1’s Intel Xeon 6500 or 7500 processors automatically adapt to the needs of virtualized environments while providing advanced reliability.

The Cisco B230 M2 provides a greater memory capacity to support virtualized environments, as well as the Intel Xeon E7-2800 processor family to deliver uncompromised performance. Up to eight UCS B230 M1 blade servers can reside in a single Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server chassis, with a maximum of 320 per Unified Computing System.

Up to eight UCS B230 M2 blade servers can reside in one Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server chassis, with a maximum of 160 per Unified Computing System.

Cisco UCS B230 Model Comparison:

	Cisco B230 M1	Cisco B230 M2
Processors	Up to two Intel Xeon 6500 or 7500 series	Up to two Intel Xeon E7-2800 series
Memory	Up to 256GB DDR3	Up to 512GB DDR3
Hard drives	(2) Optional SSDs, (front-accessible, hot-swappable)	Up to (2) SSDs (front-accessible, hot-swappable)
Controller	LSI SAS2108	LSI SAS2008 (RAID 0, 1 support)
Ideal for	High density server and virtualization environments, database workloads	Mission-critical applications in a virtualized environment

Vibrant offers complete configurations as well as individual parts and upgrades for Cisco B230 server models. For pricing on new or used Cisco UCS B230 Servers servers, upgrades or parts, please contact Vibrant sales at sales@vibrant.com or call 888-443-8606 or 952-653-1700.