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Cisco HyperFlex Edge Systems are optimized for remote sites, branch offices, and edge environments. As a smaller form factor of Cisco HyperFlex, Cisco HyperFlex Edge keeps the full power of a next generation hyperconverged platform even without connecting to Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects. Cisco HyperFlex Edge Systems support a variable configuration of 2, 3, or 4 HX converged nodes and supports the scale up of CPU, memory, and storage capacity (hot-add additional capacity drives).

Cisco HyperFlex™ Systems provides an all-purpose virtualized server platform, with hypervisor hosts, networking connectivity, and virtual server storage across a set of Cisco UCS HX-Series x86 rack-mount servers. It combines the convergence of computing and networking provided by Cisco UCS, along with next-generation hyperconverged storage software, to uniquely provide the compute resources, network connectivity, storage, and hypervisor platform to run an entire virtual environment, all contained in a single uniform system.

Cisco HyperFlex Edge System is an entry level Cisco HyperFlex system which is optimized for remote sites, branch offices, and edge environments. As a smaller form factor of Cisco hyperconverged solution, Cisco HyperFlex Edge keeps the full power of next generation hyperconverged platform even without connecting to Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects. Cisco HyperFlex Edge Systems support a fixed configuration of three HX converged nodes but allow the ability to scale up capacity by hot-adding additional capacity drives.

HyperFlex Edge operates using existing top of rack 1Gb switching with options for both single and dual switch configurations. Edge clusters are configured with replication factor 2 (RF2) to ensure availability during various failure scenarios. HyperFlex Edge is typically deployed in environments with a minimal infrastructure footprint, hence the use of UCS compute-only nodes is not supported.

The Cisco UCS C480 M5 High-Performance Rack Server is a four-rack-unit (4RU) server supporting the Intel® Xeon® processor scalable family CPUs, with up to 6 terabytes (TB) of double-data-rate 4 (DDR4) memory1 in 48 slots, and up to 32 small form factor (SFF), hot-swappable2 SAS/SATA/PCIe NVMe disk drives.

12 PCI Express (PCIe) expansion slots support Cisco UCS C-Series network adapters storage controllers, and up to 6 GPUs, with additional I/O provided by two 10GBase-T LOM ports and one 1GbE dedicated out-of-band (OOB) management port. A separate PCIe slot is reserved inside the chassis for a RAID controller card.

The UCS C240 M6 SFF server extends the capabilities of Cisco's Unified Computing System portfolio in a 2U form factor with the addition of the 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors (Ice Lake), 16 DIMM slots per CPU for 3200-MHz DDR4 DIMMs with DIMM capacity points up to 256 GB.

The UCS C240 M6 LFF server extends the capabilities of Cisco's Unified Computing System portfolio in a 2U form factor with the addition of the 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors (Ice Lake), 16 DIMM slots per CPU for 3200-MHz DDR4 DIMMs with DIMM capacity points up to 128 GB.