The Cisco UCS M3 servers have been officially announced.

Recently I had the opportunity to get my hands on a B200 M3 at Cisco’s lab in RTP NC.

Here is a breakdown of the new B 200.

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	<li>Same Half width blade form factor</li>
	<li>2 x hot plug SAS / SATA – HDD / SSD</li>
	<li> 2 x Flexible Flash 16  GB SD Cards (see picture below)</li>
	<li>24 x DDR3 DIMMs (twice as much as the previous model!)</li>
	<li>Dual 2 x 10 Gb optical modular LOM (dedicated for VIC  1240)</li>
	<li>Internal USB 2.0 port</li>
	<li>2x E5-2600 CPUs</li>
	<li>1 x Mezzanine slot (Gen 3) for VIC option or 3<sup>rd</sup> party mezzanine</li>
</ul>
There wasn’t a whole lot of light in the lab but I was able to get these pics.

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Here is a shot of the internal USB slot and the 16 GB Flash SD card.

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Here is the slot for the SD cards, most likely for diagnostic tools.

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I will continue to post information as I get my hands additional new UCS technology!

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