Cisco UCS C245 M8 Rack Server Data Sheet
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The Cisco UCS® C245 M8 Rack Server delivers industry-leading performance and expandability.
The Cisco UCS C245 M8 Rack Server is perfectly suited for a wide range of storage and I/O-intensive applications such as big data analytics, databases, collaboration, virtualization, consolidation, AI/ML and high-performance computing supporting up to two AMD CPUs in a 2RU form factor.
The Cisco UCS C245 M8 Rack Server extends the capabilities of the Cisco UCS rack server portfolio. It powers 5th Gen and 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors with up to 160 cores per socket designed using AMD’s chiplet architecture. With advanced features like AMD Infinity Guard, compute-intensive applications will see significant performance improvements and will reap other benefits such as power and cost efficiencies.
You can deploy the Cisco UCS C-Series rack servers 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 or as standalone servers.
The Cisco UCS C245 M8 Rack Server brings many innovations to the UCS AMD rack server line. With the introduction of PCIe Gen 5.0 expansion slots for high-speed I/O, a DDR5 memory bus, and expanded storage capabilities, the server delivers significant performance and efficiency gains that will greatly enhance application performance. Features include:
● Support for up to two 5th Gen or up to two 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs in a server designed to drive as much as 320 CPU cores (160 cores per socket)
● Up to 24 DDR5 DIMM slots, yielding up to 6 TB of capacity, using 256 GB DIMMs (12 DIMMs per socket)
● Up to 6000 MT/s DDR5 memory plus other speeds depending on the CPU installed
● Up to 8 x PCIe Gen 4.0 slots or up to 4 x PCIe Gen 5.0 slots, plus a hybrid modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) /OCP 3.0 slot (details below)
● Support for Cisco UCS VIC 15000 Series adapters as well as a host of third-party NIC options
● Up to 28 hot-swappable small-form-factor (SFF) SAS/SATA or NVMe drives (with up to 8 direct-attach NVMe drives)
◦ New tri-mode RAID controller supports SAS4 plus NVMe hardware RAID
● M.2 boot options
◦ Up to two 960GB SATA M.2 drives with hardware RAID support
◦ Up to two 960GB NVMe M.2 drives with NVMe hardware RAID
● Support for up to Eight GPUs
● Modular LOM / OCP 3.0
◦ One dedicated PCIe Gen4x16 slot that can be used to add an mLOM or OCP 3.0 card for additional rear-panel connectivity
◦ mLOM slot that can be used to install a Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 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 that features full out-of-band management for select adapters
High performance for data-intensive applications
The Cisco UCS C245 M8 Rack Server is well suited for a wide range of enterprise workloads, including:
● Virtualization and consolidation
● Big data and analytics
● AI/ML
● Collaboration
● Small and medium-sized business databases
● Storage servers
● Enterprise high-performance appliances
Cisco UCS C245 M8 Rack Servers can be deployed as part of a Cisco UCS–managed environment, through Cisco Intersight, or standalone. When used in combination with Cisco Intersight, the C245 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 Cisco 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/).
Table 1 lists the specifications for the Cisco UCS C245 M8 Rack Server.
Table 1. Specifications
| Item |
Specifications |
| Form factor |
2RU rack server |
| Processors |
5th Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors (1 or 2) or 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors (1 or 2) |
| Memory |
24 DDR5 DIMM slots: *16, 32, 64, *96, *128, and *256 GB up to 6000MT/s with 5th Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors or 24 DDR5 DIMM slots: 16, 32, 64, 96, 128, and 256 GB up to 4800 MT/s with 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors *available in CQ1’CY2025 |
| PCIe expansion |
Up to 8 PCIe Gen 4.0 slots or up to 4 PCIe Gen 5.0 slots, 1 dedicated 24-Gbps RAID controller slot and 1 dedicated mLOM slot |
| RAID controllers |
● Internal controllers:
◦ Dual Cisco 24-Gbps modular tri-mode controller support with 4GB cache, supports SAS 4 or NVMe hardware RAID (up to 14 drives per controller)
● Cisco 24-Gbps tri-mode passthrough HBA with SAS4/NVMe supports Cisco 24-Gbps modular tri-mode controller support with 4GB cache, supports SAS 4 or NVMe hardware RAID (up to 28 drives per controller) External controller: Cisco 12-Gbps 9500-8e SAS HBA
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| Internal storage |
Backplane options:
● Up to 28 x 2.5-inch SAS, SATA HDDs, SSDs or NVMe SSDs (up to 8 NVMe direct attach)
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| mLOM/OCP 3.0 |
One dedicated socket (PCIe Gen5 x16) that can be used to add an mLOM or OCP 3.0 card for additional rear-panel connectivity
● mLOM slot can flexibly accommodate 10/25/50 and 40/100/200 100-Gbps Cisco VIC adapters.
● OCP 3.0 slot features full out-of-band management with Intel
® X710 OCP Dual 10GBase-T via mLOM interposer.
● Several other OCP card offerings
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| Power supplies |
Hot-pluggable, redundant platinum and titanium options:
● Platinum: 1050W DC and 1600W AC
● Titanium:
1200W AC and 2300W AC
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| Other storage |
● Dedicated Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) FlexMMC for utilities (on board)
● Dual M.2 SATA/NVMe SSDs with HW RAID support
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| Management |
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| Rack options |
● Cisco ball-bearing rail kit with optional reversible cable management arm
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| Hardware and software interoperability |
● See the
Cisco Hardware and Software Interoperability List for a complete listing of supported operating systems and peripheral options.
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Table 2 lists system requirements for the server.
Table 2. System requirements
| Item |
Requirements |
| Cisco IMC |
Release 4.3(5) |
Table 3. Ordering information
| Part # |
Product description |
| UCS-M8-MLB |
Cisco UCS M8 rack, blade, chassis major line bundle (MLB) This MLB consists of the server node (UCSC-C245-M8SX) with software and Cisco Intersight options. Use this PID to begin a new configuration. |
| UCSC-C245-M8SX |
C245 M8 2RU standard server with up to 28x SFF drive bays |
The Cisco UCS C245 M8 Rack Server has a three-year, next-business-day (NBD) hardware warranty and a 90-day software warranty.
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Table 4. Cisco environmental sustainability information
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Reference |
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| General |
Information on product-material-content laws and regulations |
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| Information on electronic waste laws and regulations, including our products, batteries, and packaging |
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| Information on our product takeback and reuse program |
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| Sustainability inquiries |
Contact: csr_inquiries@cisco.com |
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| Operating and non-operating conditions |
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| Material |
Product packaging weight and materials |
Contact: environment@cisco.com |
Product environmental information
Product environmental information for users per Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/424
https://www.cisco.com/web/dofc/25140646.pdf and https://www.cisco.com/web/dofc/25140647.pdf.
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Date |
| Product specifications |
October 10, 2024 |
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| Product Environmental Information |
August 6, 2024 |