- Low-latency, lossless, 10-Gbps Ethernet and industry-standard FCoE and native Fiber Channel fabric
- Wire-once deployment model in which changing I/O configurations no longer means installing adapters and recabling racks and switches
- Fewer interface cards, cables, and upstream network ports to purchase, power, configure, and maintain
- Consistent and scalable operational model
- Increased security and efficiency with reduced complexity
- Entire solution managed as a single entity with Cisco UCS manager, improving operation efficiency and flexibility
- Service profiles and templates that implement role- and policy-based management, enabling more effective use of skilled server, network, and storage administrators
- Automated provisioning and increased business agility, allowing data center managers to provision applications in minutes rather than days
- Capability to move virtual machines and their security features and policies from rack to rack or rack to blade or blade to blade
The Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server is optimized for both performance and expandability over a wide range of storage-intensive infrastructure workloads ranging from big data to collaboration.
It is a great server at a great price for those applications needing large internal storage. This C240 Entry server is a real work horse and is capable of having up to 24 DIMMs, 24 hard drives and 5 PCIe slots. This 2RU server has 2 x Intel E5-2620 processors, and one UCS 1225 VIC to meet your high I/O needs (2 x 10 Gb FCoE capable Ethernet ports).