Cisco UCS C225 M8 Rack Server Data Sheet

The Cisco UCS^® C225 M8 Rack Server delivers record-breaking performance for space-constrained environments.

Product overview

The Cisco UCS C225 M8 Rack Server is a versatile general-purpose infrastructure and application server. This high-density, 1RU, single-socket rack server delivers industry-leading performance and efficiency for a wide range of workloads, including virtualization, collaboration, and bare-metal applications.

The Cisco UCS C225 M8 Rack Server extends the capabilities of the Cisco UCS rack server portfolio. It powers 5^th Gen and 4^th Gen AMD EPYC^™ Processors with 150 percent more cores per socket designed using AMD’s chiplet architecture. With advanced features such as AMD Infinity Guard, compute-intensive applications will see significant performance improvements and reap other benefits such as power and cost efficiencies.

You can deploy the Cisco UCS C-Series rack servers as standalone servers or as part of the Cisco Unified Computing System^™ managed by Cisco Intersight^® or Cisco UCS Manager to take advantage of Cisco^® standards-based unified computing innovations that can help reduce your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and increase your business agility.

The C225 M8 rack server brings many new innovations to the Cisco UCS AMD rack server portfolio. With the introduction of PCIe Gen 5.0 for high-speed I/O, a DDR5 memory bus, and expanded storage capabilities, the server delivers significant performance and efficiency gains that will improve your application performance.

●      Supports one 5^th Gen or one 4^th Gen AMD EPYC CPU, with up to 160 cores per socket

●      Up to 12 DDR5 DIMMs for up to 1.5 TB of capacity using 128 GB DIMMs

●      Up to 6000 MT/s DDR5 memory plus other speeds depending on the CPU installed

●      Up to 3 PCIe 4.0 slots or up to 2 PCIe 5.0 slots, plus a modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) / OCP slot

●      Support for Cisco’s virtual interface card, the Cisco UCS VIC 15000 Series adapters, as well as third-party NIC options

●      UCS C225 M8S chassis: up to 10 SAS/SATA or NVMe disk drives

◦    New tri-mode RAID controller supports SAS4 or NVMe hardware RAID

◦    Option for up to 4 direct-attach NVMe SSDs

●      UCS C225 M8N chassis: up to 10 direct attach NVMe SSDs

◦    All 10 NVMe drives connected at PCIe Gen4 x4

●      M.2 boot options

◦    Up to two 960GB SATA M.2 drives with hardware RAID, or

◦    Up to two 960GB NVMe M.2 drives with NVMe hardware RAID

●      Up to three GPUs supported

●      Hybrid modular LOM/OCP 3.0

◦    One dedicated Gen 4.0 x16 slot that can be used to add an mLOM or OCP 3.0 card for additional rear-panel connectivity

◦    mLOM allows for Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Cards (VICs) without consuming a PCIe slot, supporting quad-port 10/25/50 Gbps or dual-port 40/100/200 Gbps network connectivity

◦    OCP 3.0 slot features full out-of-band management for select adapters

Powering next-generation applications

The Cisco UCS C225 M8 Rack Server is well suited for a wide range of workloads, including:

●      IT and web infrastructure

●      High-performance virtual desktops

●      Small and medium-sized and distributed databases

●      AI inferencing

●      Collaboration

●      Enterprise high-performance applications

Cisco UCS C225 M8 Rack Servers can be deployed as standalone servers, part of a Cisco UCS‒managed environment, or through Cisco Intersight. When used in combination with Cisco Intersight, the UCS C225 M8 brings the power and automation of unified computing to enterprise applications, including Cisco SingleConnect technology, drastically reducing switching and cabling requirements.

Cisco Intersight leverages the familiar capabilities of UCS Manager with service profiles, templates, and policy-based management to enable rapid deployment and help ensure deployment consistency. It also enables end-to-end server visibility, management, and control in both virtualized and bare-metal environments.

The Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) delivers comprehensive out-of-band server management with support for many industry standards, including:

●      Redfish Version 1.13.0 (2021.1 schema0)

●      Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) v2.0

●      Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v2 and v3

●      Syslog

●      Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)

●      Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP)

●      cKVM (all-new Cisco KVM)

●      Command-Line Interface (CLI)

●      XML API

Management Software Development Kits (SDKs) and DevOps integrations exist for Python, Microsoft PowerShell, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and more. For more information about integrations, see Cisco DevNet (https://developer.cisco.com/site/ucs-dev-center/).

Product specifications

Table 1 lists the specifications for the Cisco UCS C225 M8 Rack Server.

Table 1.        Specifications

System requirements

Table 2 lists system requirements for the server.

Table 2.        System requirements

Ordering information

Table 3.        Ordering information

Warranty information

The Cisco UCS C225 M8 Rack Server has a three-year, Next-Business-Day (NBD) hardware warranty, and a 90-day software warranty.

Product sustainability

Information about Cisco’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives and performance is provided in Cisco’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability reporting.

Table 4.        Cisco environmental sustainability information

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This service centralizes support across your multivendor Cisco environment for both our products and solution partner products that you have deployed in your ecosystem. Whether there is an issue with a Cisco product or with a solution partner product, just call us. Our experts are the primary point of contact and own the case from first call to resolution. Learn more about Cisco Solution Support.

Cisco and partner services

Cisco and our industry-leading partners deliver services that can accelerate your transition to a Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System solution. Cisco Unified Computing Systems Services can help you create an agile infrastructure, accelerate time to value, reduce costs and risks, and maintain availability during deployment and migration. After deployment, our services can help you improve performance, availability, and resiliency as your business needs evolve and help you further mitigate risk. For more information, visit https://www.cisco.com/go/unifiedcomputingservices.

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