Cisco HyperFlex HX 245c Edge Data Sheet

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Rich digital experiences need always-on, local, high-performance computing that is close to users. Retail, finance, education, healthcare, transportation, and manufacturing organizations, and remote and branch offices in general, are all pushing computing to the network edge. Cisco HyperFlex HX245c Edge M6 Nodes bring the robust feature set of Cisco HyperFlex systems to your edge environments with high-capacity storage and cloud-based management in a small footprint.

Simplicity for the edge

As enterprise applications migrated to centralized data centers and the cloud, the internet edge moved closer to user devices and organizational touchpoints such as remote and branch offices. Cisco HyperFlex HX245c Edge M6 Nodes are deployed as a preintegrated cluster with a unified pool of resources that you can quickly provision, adapt, scale, and manage to efficiently power your remote-office and branch-office (ROBO) locations. Physically, the solutions are deployed as sets of two, three, or four edge-specific nodes that use Cisco® or third-party Gigabit or 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches, offering the utmost in flexibility for deployment in remote and branch-office environments (Figure 1). All nodes use AMD EPYC CPUs and next-generation DDR4 memory and offer 12-Gbps SAS throughput.

Cisco HyperFlex Edge delivers a preintegrated, high storage capacity cluster to remote-office and branch-office locations

Figure 1.               

Cisco HyperFlex Edge delivers a preintegrated, high storage capacity cluster to remote-office and branch-office locations

Cisco HyperFlex HX245c Edge M6 Nodes

Cisco HyperFlex HX245c Edge M6 Nodes bring high storage capacity to the network edge. These nodes are available with hybrid and all-flash storage in a Two-Rack-Unit (2RU) chassis. With the same easy deployment and management as all Cisco HyperFlex Edge systems, these platforms bring greater storage capacity to edge locations and small or medium-size businesses. The solutions are managed by the Cisco Intersight cloud-operations platform, delivering consistent policy-based enforcement, powering growing requirements in branch offices and remote sites, and enabling new IoT and intelligent services at the network edge.

Features and benefits

Table 1.           Features and benefits of Cisco HyperFlex HX245c Edge M6 Nodes

Feature

Benefit

Chassis

  Two-Rack-Unit (2RU) chassis

Memory

  32 DIMM slots (16 DIMMs per CPU socket), 3200 MHZ DDR4 for up to 4 TB of capacity

AMD EPYC CPUs

  One to two 3 rd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs

Network

  Easy deployment in existing edge locations
  Use of existing top-of-rack 1 Gigabit Ethernet or 10/25 Gigabit Ethernet switching networks for cluster communication
  Support for single and dual switch configurations

Expansion

The HX245 M6 SFF server has:

  Up to 24 front SFF SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs (optionally up to four of the drives can be NVMe)
  An I/O-centric option that provides up to eight PCIe slots using three rear risers, or
  A storage-centric option that provides three rear risers with a total of up to four NVMe SFF drives and three PCIe slots

The server provides internal slots for:

  Two Cisco 12G SAS HBAs to control SAS/SATA drives

The HX245 M6 server has a single 1-GE management port. A modular, LAN-on-motherboard slot can extended to an OCP 3.0 slot and provides up to two 100-GE ports. A connector on the front of the chassis provides KVM functionality.

Cloud-based management

Cisco Intersight simplifies operations across on- premises data centers, edge sites, and public clouds.

  Use a software-as-a-service platform that bridges applications with infrastructure
  Gain instant access to clusters regardless of where they are deployed
  Correlate visibility and management across bare-metal servers, hypervisors, Kubernetes, and serverless and application components
  Transform operations with artificial intelligence to reach needed scale and velocity
  Collaborate and work smarter and faster by automating lifecycle workflows
  Support compliance and governance with extensible, open capabilities that natively integrate with third-party platforms and tools
  Proactively respond to impending issues with a recommendation engine that determines when capacity needs to be scaled

Additional management capabilities include:

  Optional installation wizard for automated configuration
  Support for the VMware vSphere plug-in
  Support for the Cisco HyperFlex Connect interface with an HTML 5 presentation layer accessible on desktop and laptop computers and mobile devices

Storage

  Up to 24 front SFF SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs (optionally up to four of the drives can be NVMe)
  An I/O-centric option that provides up to eight PCIe slots using three rear risers, or
  A storage-centric option that provides three rear risers with a total of up to four NVMe SFF drives and three PCIe slots

Enterprise data protection

  Pointer-based snapshot capabilities
  Native snapshots for iSCSI LUNs, including a consistency group for snapshot operations, instantaneous snapshot creation, and RESTful APIs for snapshot creation and third-party backup use Snapshot integration with MEDITECH BridgeHead for electronic health records and databases
  Near-instant cloning
  Inline deduplication and compression
  Native replication for disaster recovery
  N:1 replication for data center clusters with fabric interconnects and more than 4 nodes, as well as a flexible retention policy for local and remote point-in-time copies
  Data-at-rest encryption using self-encrypting drives and enterprise key management integration

Security

  Locking bezel option to protect against unauthorized access to disk drives

Software

  Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform Software (software subscription, Edge license)

Product specifications

Table 2.           Specifications for Cisco HyperFlex HX245c Edge M6 Nodes

Capability / feature

Description

Chassis

Two-Rack-Unit (2RU) chassis

CPU

Up to two 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors

Memory

32 DIMM slots (16 DIMMs per CPU socket), 3200 MHZ DDR4 for up to 4 TB of capacity

Multi-bit error protection

This server supports multi-bit error protection.

Video

The Cisco Integrated Management Controller (Cisco IMC) provides video using the Matrox- G200e video/graphics controller:

  Integrated 2D graphics core with hardware acceleration
  Embedded DDR memory interface supports up to 512 MB of addressable memory (8 MB is allocated by default to video memory.)
  Supports display resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 16 bpp @ 60 Hz
  High-speed, integrated 24-bit RAMDAC
  Single-lane PCI-Express host interface running at Gen 1 speed

Power subsystem

Up to two of the following hot-swappable power supplies:

  1050 W (AC)
  1050 W (DC)
  1600 W (AC)
  2300 W (AC)

One power supply is mandatory; one more can be added for 1 + 1 redundancy.

Front panel

A front-panel controller provides status indications and control buttons.

ACPI

This server supports the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) 4.0 standard.

Fans

Six hot-swappable fans for front-to-rear cooling

InfiniBand

The InfiniBand architecture is supported by the PCIe slots.

Expansion slots

  Riser 1A (3 PCIe slots)
  Riser 1B (2 drive bays)
  Riser 2A (3 PCIe slots)
  Riser 3A (2 PCIe slots)
  Riser 3B (2 drive bays)
  Riser 3C (1 PCIe slot)

Interfaces

Rear panel:

  One 1GBASE-T RJ-45 management port
  One RS-232 serial port (RJ45 connector)
  One DB15 VGA connector
  Two USB 3.0 port connectors
  One flexible modular LAN-on-motherboard (mLOM)/OCP 3.0 slot that can accommodate various interface cards

Front panel:

  One KVM console connector (supplies two USB 2.0 connectors, one VGA DB15 video connector, and one serial port (RS232) RJ45 connector)
  Up to 24 front SFF SAS/SATA hard drives (HDDs) or SAS/SATA Solid State Drives (SSDs)
  Optionally, up to four front SFF NVMe PCIe SSDs These drives must be placed in front drive bays 1, 2, 3, and 4 only and are connected to CPU The rest of the bays (5 - 24) can be populated with SAS/SATA SSDs or HDDs.
  Optionally, up to four SFF rear-facing NVMe drives

Internal storage devices

Other storage:

  A mini-storage module connector on the motherboard supports a boot-optimized RAID controller carrier that holds two SATA M.2 SSDs. Mixing different capacity SATA M.2 SSDs is not supported.
  HX245c Edge M6 All Flash Node (HXAF-E-245-M6SX)

      Data drives: 3 to 26 SATA SSD

      Cache drive: 1 NVMe/SAS SSD

      Logging drive: 1 SATA SSD

  HX245c Edge M6 Node (hybrid) (HX-E-245-M6SX)

      Data drives: 3 to 26 SAS HDD

      Cache drive: 1 SAS SSD

      Logging drive: 1 SATA SSD

Integrated management controller

A Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) runs Cisco Integrated Management Controller (Cisco IMC) firmware.

Depending on your settings, the controller can be accessed through the 1-GE dedicated management port or a Cisco Virtual Interface Card (VIC).

Cisco IMC manages certain components within the server, such as the Cisco 12G SAS HBA.

Storage controllers

One Cisco M6 12G SAS RAID controller or up to two Cisco 12G SAS HBAs plug into a dedicated slot.

Cisco 12G SAS HBA:

  No RAID support
  JBOD/passthrough mode support
  Supports up to 16 SAS/SATA internal drives
  Plugs into a dedicated slot

Modular LAN-on- motherboard (mLOM) / Open Compute Project (OCP) 3.0 slot

The dedicated mLOM/OCP 3.0 slot on the motherboard can flexibly accommodate the following cards:

  Cisco Virtual Interface Cards (VICs)
  OCP 3.0 network interface card (UCSC-O-ID10GC)

Cisco Intersight

Intersight provides server management capabilities

Cisco Integrated Management Controller

Requires Release 4.2(1) or later

Operating temperature

Minimum 10°C to 35°C (50°F to 95°F) with no direct sunlight (If any A10, A100, or rear HDDs are installed, the 35°C (50°F) restriction changes to 30°C (86F).)

Maximum allowable operating temperature derated 1C/300 m (1F/547 ft) above 950 m (3117 ft)

Extended operating temperature

5°C to 40°C (41°F to 104°F) with no direct sunlight

Maximum allowable operating temperature derated

1C/175 m (1F/319 ft) above 950 m (3117 ft)

5°C to 4°5C (41°F to 113°F) with no direct sunlight

Maximum allowable operating temperature derated

1C/125 m (1F/228 ft) above 950 m (3117 ft)

System performance may be impacted when operating in the extended operating temperature range.

Operation above 40°C is limited to less than 1% of annual operating hours.

Hardware configuration limits apply to extended operating temperature range.

Non-operating temperature

Below -40°C or above 65°C (below -40°F or above 149°F)

Maximum rate of change (operating and non-operating) 20°C/hr (36°F/hr)

Operating relative humidity

8% to 90% and 24°C (75°F) maximum dew-point temperature, non-condensing environment

Non-operating relative humidity

5% to 95% and 33°C (91°F) maximum dew-point temperature, non-condensing environment

Operating altitude

0 m to 3050 m {10,000 ft)

Non-operating altitude

Below 0 m or above 12,000 m (39,370 ft)

Ordering information

For a complete list of part numbers, refer to the HX245c Edge M6 specification sheet.

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