Cisco UCS E Series Product Overview

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Feature
Benefit
Hardware RAID 0, 1, and 5 support
Hardware RAID 0 and 1 support on single-wide blades and
double-wide blades with the PCIe card option
Hardware RAID 0, 1, and 5 support on double-wide blades
without the PCIe card option
LSI MegaRAID controller
Cisco UCS C-Series Integrated
Management Controller (CIMC)
Web user interface for server management; remote keyboard,
video, and mouse (KVM); virtual media; and administration
Virtual media support for remote CD and DVD drives as if local
Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) 2.0 support
for out-of-band management through third-party enterprise
management systems
Command-line interface (CLI) for server management
Integration with Cisco IOS
®
Software for optional management
of the servers from within the router CLI and operating
environment
One 10/100BASE-T out-of-band management interface
PCIe card support for additional
network and storage I/O
Additional I/O performance and flexibility with four 1 Gigabit
Ethernet or one 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over
Ethernet (FCoE) options (available in double-wide blades only)
Integrated external Gigabit Ethernet
ports
Single-wide blades: 1 external Gigabit Ethernet port
Double-wide blades: 2 external Gigabit Ethernet ports
Front-panel connectors
Front-panel VGA, 2 USB, and serial console connectors
Platform Support and Compatibility
Unlike the previous generation of Cisco UCS Express modules, Cisco UCS E-Series Servers are designed to
support multiple bare-metal operating systems and hypervisors, including:
Operating systems
– Microsoft Windows Server
– Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
– SUSE Linux
– Oracle Enterprise Linux
Hypervisors
– Microsoft Hyper-V
– VMware vSphere
– Citrix XenServer

Cisco UCS E Series Specifications

General

Brand	Cisco
Model	UCS E Series
Category	Server
Language	English