Cisco Compute Hyperconverged C220 M7 Node Family Data Sheet

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Cisco® Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix accelerates and simplifies the delivery of infrastructure and applications, at a global scale, through best-in-class cloud-operating models, industry-leading flexibility, and enhanced support and resiliency capabilities so you can power your hybrid multicloud future with the industry’s most complete hyperconverged solution.

Product overview

Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix

Cisco and Nutanix have partnered to introduce the IT industry’s most complete hyperconverged solution by integrating and validating Cisco servers, storage, networking, and SaaS operations with the Nutanix hybrid multicloud platform. Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix is built, managed, and supported holistically to deliver a more seamless experience, foster innovation, and accelerate customers’ hybrid-cloud journeys.

Cisco Compute Hyperconverged C220 M7 Node family

Cisco Compute Hyperconverged C220 M7 Node family delivers performance, flexibility, and resiliency in a small footprint. Physically, nodes are deployed into clusters, with a cluster consisting of one or more Cisco Compute Hyperconverged C220 M7 All-Flash/All-NVme servers.

These servers can be interconnected and managed in two different ways:

      UCS Managed mode: The nodes are connected to a pair of Cisco UCS® 6400 Series or a pair of Cisco UCS 6500 Series fabric interconnects and managed as a single system using UCS Manager. The minimum number of nodes in such a cluster is three. These clusters can support both general-purpose deployments and mission-critical high-performance environments.

      Intersight Standalone mode: The nodes are connected to a pair of Top-of-Rack (ToR) switches and servers are centrally managed using Cisco Intersight®. While a minimum of three nodes are required to deploy a standard Nutanix cluster, we also offer an option to deploy a single-node cluster and a two-node cluster for Edge and branch locations and situations that already have a high-performance network fabric installed. Refer to the Cisco spec sheets for further detail on the use of 1-node and 2-node Nutanix clusters.

Features and benefits

Cisco Compute Hyperconverged C220 M7 All-Flash/All-NVMe with Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors are excellent for a wide range of enterprise workloads, including cloud computing, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), databases, and server virtualization.

Table 1.        Summary of features and benefits of Cisco Compute Hyperconverged C220 M7 All-Flash Node/All-NVMe node

Feature

Benefits

Memory

  High memory capacity
  Up to 4 TB memory (32 x 128 GB DDR5 DIMMs)

Processors

5th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Emerald Rapids)

  Massive processing power with up to 64 cores per socket
  5 MB of L3 cache per core
  Speed Select Technology that supports high and low priority cores.
  Up to 80 PCI Express 5.0 lanes
  High-speed DDR5 memory technology for up to 5600 MT/s
  Multiple built-in accelerators for new functional capabilities across AI, analytics, security, and storage

4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Saphire Rapids)

  10-nanometer (nm) processor technology
  Processing power with up to 60 cores per socket
  Larger L2 and L3 cache
  High-speed DDR5 memory technology for up to 4800 MT/s

Unified network fabric (Optional)

  Low-latency, up to 8 x 10/25/50 Gigabit Ethernet connections or up to 4 x 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet connections
  Wire-once deployment model, eliminating the need to install adapters and re-cable racks and switches when changing I/O configurations
  Fewer interface cards, cables, and upstream network ports to purchase, power, configure, and maintain

Cloud-based services and management

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

  Use a software-as-a-service platform that bridges applications with infrastructure
  Correlate visibility and management across bare-metal servers, hypervisors, and application components
  Transform operations with artificial intelligence to reach needed scale and velocity

Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) includes Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Nutanix Cloud Management (NCM), and desktop services:

  NCI unifies compute, storage, and network, hypervisors and containers, in public or enterprise clouds
  NCM offers customers simplicity and ease of use to build and grow their cloud deployments and realize rapid ROI, by providing intelligent operations, self- service and orchestration, visibility and governance
  Desktop services offer hybrid-cloud infrastructure capabilities for on-premises Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) use cases.

Storage

  All-flash or All-NVMe configurations

    Deliver high-capacity configurations for the Cisco Compute Hyperconverged platform capacity layer

  Nutanix Unified Storage provides software-defined, scale-out storage solutions for enterprise Network Attached Storage (NAS) and object workloads for unstructured data, block storage for structured data, and backup storage

Enterprise data protection

  Synchronous and near-synchronous replication with option to use runbook automation
  Multisite asynchronous replication for disaster recovery
  Deduplication and compression
  Disaster recovery in cloud with Nutanix cloud clusters

Security

  Data-at-rest encryption using self-encrypting drives and enterprise key management integration
  Trusted Platform Module (TPM), a chip (microcontroller) that can securely store artifacts, including passwords, certificates, and encryption keys, which are used to authenticate the platform (node). Supports TPM 2.0
  Software based data-at-rest encryption and micro-segmentation

Software

  Management software: Cisco Intersight, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), Nutanix Cloud Management (NCM), desktop services
  Storage software: AOS Storage, Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) - for files, objects, and volumes use cases
  Hypervisor: Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) and VMware vSphere

Product specifications

Table 2.        Common specifications for Cisco Compute Hyperconverged C220 M7 All Flash Node

Feature

Common specifications across the Cisco Compute Hyperconverged C220 M7 node family

Chassis

1RU of rack space per node

Processors

One or two 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Emerald Rapids)

Or

One or two 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids)

Memory

32 DDR5-5600 DIMM slots (16 DIMMS per CPU): 16, 32, 48, 64, 96, 128GB at up to 5600 MT/s for up to 4TB of memory with 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors

or

32 DDR5-4800 DIMM slots (16 DIMMS per CPU): 16, 32, 64, 128GB at up to 4800 MT/s for up to 4TB of memory with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors

Storage

  Specific drive options are available for Cisco Compute Hyperconverged C220 nodes:
  C220 All Flash Node: 1.9 TB, 3.8 TB, 7.6 TB or 15.3 TB SSD disks (up to 10 drives per node)
  C220 All NVMe Node: 1.9 TB, 3.8 TB, 7.6 TB or 15.3 TB NVMe drives (up to 10 drives per node)
  Dual M.2 SATA SSDs with HW RAID support

PCIe

  3 PCIe 4.0 slots or up to 2 PCIe 5.0 slots plus 1 dedicated 12-Gbps RAID controller slot and 1 dedicated mLOM slot

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)

  NVIDIA L4 GPU card (optional)

Network

  Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 15428 or 15238 or 15427 or 15237 (modular LAN on Motherboard)
  Quad 10/25/50 G or Dual 40/100 G Ethernet VIC (Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card 15425 or 15235) (optional)
  Intel E810 dual- or quad-port Network Interface Card (Intersight Standalone Mode)
  Intel 710 dual- or quad-port Network Interface Card (Intersight Standalone Mode)

Management

Advanced Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) features

  Robust reporting and analytics
  Hot-swappable, front-accessible drives
  Dual-redundant fans and hot-swappable, redundant power supplies for enterprise-class reliability and a convenient latching lid for easy access to internal server
  Tool-free CPU insertion, enabling processor upgrades and replacements with less risk of damage
  Tool-free access to all serviceable items, and color-coded indicators to guide users to hot-pluggable and serviceable items
  Non-disruptive rolling upgrades using Nutanix Life-Cycle Manager (LCM)

Front-panel connector

  1 KVM console connector per node
  (supplies 2 USB connectors, 1 VGA connector, and 1 serial connector)

Front-panel locator LED

  Helps direct administrators to specific servers in large data-center environments

Additional rear connectors

  1 Gigabit Ethernet management port
  1 RS-232 serial port (RJ45 connector)
  1 Video Graphics Array (VGA) video port (DB15 connector)
  2 USB 3.0 ports

Power and cooling

  One or two hot-pluggable power supplies
  Second power supply provides 1+1 redundancy
  770W, 1200W, 1600W, or 2300W AC power supplies or 1050 DC power supply
  8 hot-swappable fans for front to rear cooling

Rail-kit options

  Cisco ball-bearing rail kit with optional reversible cable-management arm

Software

  Management software: Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure, Nutanix Cloud Management, desktop services
  Storage software: AOS Storage, Nutanix Unified Storage (files, objects, and volumes)
  Hypervisor: Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) and VMware vSphere

Ordering information

For a complete list of part numbers, refer to the Cisco Compute Hyperconverged C220 M7 All Flash specification sheet.

Cisco Unified Computing Services

Cisco, Nutanix, and our industry-leading partners deliver services that accelerate your transition to Cisco Compute Hyperconverged systems. Professional services can help you create an agile infrastructure, accelerate time to value, reduce costs and risks, and maintain availability during deployment and migration. After you have deployed your system, our services can help you improve performance, availability, and resiliency as your business needs evolve.

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Document history

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Date

Update to include Intel 5th Gen Processor support

Table 1

August 2024

Update to include All-NVMe offering

Table 2

April 2024

Update for Intersight Standalone Mode

Table 2

February 2024

Initial release

Table 2

December 2023

 

 

 

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