The Cisco UCS C245 M6 SFF Rack Server extends the capabilities of Cisco’s Unified Computing System portfolio in a 2-Rack-Unit (RU) form factor with the addition of the AMD CPUs as well as 16 DIMM slots per CPU for 3200-MHz DDR4 DIMMs with individual DIMM capacity points up to 256 GB. The maximum memory capacity for 2 CPUs is 8 TB (for 32 x 256 GB DDR4 DIMMs).

Features and benefits:

• 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:

• One Cisco 12G SAS RAID controller with a 4-GB cache backup to control SAS/SATA drives, or
• Up to two Cisco 12G SAS HBAs to control SAS/SATA drives

Note: NVMe drives are controlled directly from the CPUs.

The C245 M6 server has a single 1-GE management port. A modular, LAN-on-Motherboard slot can extend 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.

The Cisco UCS C245 M6 Rack Server can be used standalone, or as part of the Cisco Unified Computing System, which unifies computing, networking, management, virtualization, and storage access into a single integrated architecture, enabling end-to-end server visibility, management, and control in both bare-metal and virtualized environments.