Figure 1.
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X9508 Chassis
Cisco and Nutanix have partnered to introduce the industry’s first hyperconverged solution using a modular blade architecture. The Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X-Series System combines the operational simplicity of the Nutanix Cloud Platform with the flexibility and efficiency of the award-winning Cisco UCS® X-Series Modular System, enabling organizations to easily deploy, scale, and upgrade hyperconverged clusters with a more sustainable, future-ready solution. There is also support for Cisco UCS X-Series Direct to address all your edge, retail, and small and remote-office use cases.
The Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X-Series System with Nutanix combines the operational simplicity of Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) with the efficiency, flexibility, and sustainability of the Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System. The X-Series system comprises modular components that can be assembled into systems through the Cisco Intersight® cloud-operations platform.
The Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X-Series System is engineered to be adaptable and future-ready. With a midplane-free design, the system achieves I/O connectivity, using frontloading, vertically oriented compute and accelerator nodes that intersect with horizontally oriented I/O connectivity modules in the rear of the chassis. In the front of the chassis, Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X210c M7 All NVMe Nodes with Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors offer compute density and storage capacity in a single form factor and the Cisco UCS X440p PCIe Node supports adding GPUs with PCIe Gen 4.0 with the Cisco UCS X9416 X-Fabric Module.
In the rear of the chassis, a unified Ethernet fabric is supplied with Cisco UCS 9108 100G Intelligent Fabric Modules and the Cisco UCS X9416 X-Fabric Module, part of the Cisco UCS X-Fabric Technology, supply PCIe Gen 4 industry-standard protocols for GPU accelerators. Interconnections can be easily updated with new modules supporting faster Ethernet, PCIe Gen 5, and CXL.
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X-Series Direct is a self-contained system with a pair of integrated fabric interconnects, and can be used if you do not want top-of-rack fabric interconnects and need to support edge, retail, and small or remote-office use cases.
The X-Series system was designed with sustainability in mind and is equipped with power-delivery and cooling innovations designed to reduce material waste and energy consumption.
Main features
● 7-Rack-Unit (7RU) chassis has 8x front-facing flexible slots. These can house a combination of hyperconverged nodes, compute nodes, and a pool of future I/O resources that may include GPU accelerators, disk storage, and nonvolatile memory.
● 2x 9108 25G Intelligent Fabric Modules (IFMs) at the top of the chassis that connect the chassis to upstream 6400 Series Fabric Interconnects or 6500 Series fabric interconnects. Each IFM features:
◦ Up to 100 Gbps of unified fabric connectivity per compute node.
◦ 8x 25-Gbps SFP28 uplink ports / 8x 100-Gbps SFP28 uplink ports. The unified fabric carries management traffic to the Cisco Intersight cloud-operations platform, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) traffic, and production Ethernet traffic to the fabric interconnects.
● At the bottom are slots ready to house future I/O modules that can flexibly connect the compute modules with I/O devices. We call this connectivity Cisco UCS X-Fabric technology because “X” is a variable that can evolve with new technology developments.
● Six 2800W Power Supply Units (PSUs) provide 54 V power to the chassis with N, N+1, and N+N redundancy. A higher voltage allows efficient power delivery with less copper and reduced power loss.
● Efficient, 4x100mm, dual counter-rotating fans deliver industry-leading airflow and power efficiency. Optimized thermal algorithms enable different cooling modes to best support the network environment. Cooling is modular so that future enhancements can potentially handle open-or closed-loop liquid cooling to support even higher-power processors.
Figure 2.
Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X-Series System, front (top) and back (bottom)
Since we first delivered the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS) in 2009, our goal has been to simplify the data center. We pulled management out of servers and into the network. We simplified multiple networks into a single unified fabric. And we eliminated network layers in favor of a flat topology wrapped into a single unified system. With the Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X-Series System, we take that simplicity to the next level:
● Simplified operations with a solution that combines the operational simplicity of hyperconverged software with the efficiency and flexibility of a modular system.
● Increased agility and response to the dynamic needs of your business with a solution that is inherently easy to scale and includes support for future generations of processors, storage, accelerators, networking technologies, and SaaS innovations.
● Improved sustainability with a solution that is engineered to be more energy efficient and can be easily upgraded and reused, lowering the consumption of power and raw materials when compared to traditional rack servers.
Table 1. Product specifications
| Item | Specifications | |
| Height | 12.05 in (30.6 cm); 7 RU | |
| Width | 17.55 (44.6 cm); fits standard 19-inch square-hole rack | |
| Depth | 34.81 in (88.4 cm) | |
| Node slots | 8 | |
| Intelligent fabric module (IFM) | Intelligent fabric module options: ● 2 x 9108 25G Intelligent Fabric Module with 8x 25G SFP28 ports ● 2 x 9108 100G Intelligent Fabric Module with 8x 100G QSFP28 ports | |
| X-Fabric module (XFM) | X-Fabric module options: ● 2 x X9416 X-Fabric Modules for X9508 Chassis ● 2x Fabric module rear blank slots | |
| 4 x 100mm hot-swappable dual rotor fans | ||
| Power supply bays | 6 | |
| Power supplies | 2800W titanium-certified | |
| Input voltage | 100 to 127 VAC 200 to 240 VAC | |
| Maximum input VA | 3200 VA at 230 VAC | |
| Maximum output power per power supply | 2800W @200-240 VAC nominal 1400 W @100-127 VAC nominal | |
| Frequency | 50 to 60 Hz | |
| Output voltage | 54 VDC | |
| Power connector | IEC320 C20 | |
| Power redundancy | Nonredundant, N+1, N+2, and grid (N+N) | |
| Power Entry Module (PEM) | 2x PEM for AC inputs, PEM1 (PSU1,2,3), PEM2 (PSU4,5,6) | |
| Management | Cisco Intersight software (SaaS, Virtual Appliance, and Private Virtual Appliance) | |
| 50 to 95°F (10 to 35°C) (as altitude increases, maximum temperature decreases by 1°Cper 300 m) | ||
| Temperature: nonoperating | -40 to 149°F (-40 to 65°C); maximum altitude is 40,000 ft | |
| Humidity: operating | 10% to 90% noncondensing, 28°C max | |
| Humidity: nonoperating | 5% to 93% noncondensing, 38°C max | |
| Altitude: operating | 0 to 10,000 ft (0 to 3,000 m); maximum ambient temperature decreases by 1°C per 300 m | |
| Altitude: nonoperating | 40,000 ft (12,000 m) | |
| Sound pressure level | 83 dBA – at normal operating temperature | |
Table 2. Regulatory standards compliance: safety and EMC
| Specification | Description |
| Regulatory compliance | Products comply with CE Markings per directives 2004/108/EC and 2006/108/EC |
| Safety | ● UL 60950-1 ● CAN/CSA-C22.2 No. 60950-1 ● EN 60950-1 ● IEC 60950-1 ● AS/NZS 60950-1 ● GB4943 |
| EMC: Emissions | ● 47CFR Part 15 (CFR 47) Class A (FCC Class A) ● AS/NZS CISPR22 Class A ● CISPR2 2 Class A ● EN55022 Class A ● ICES003 Class A ● VCCI Class A ● EN61000-3-2 ● EN61000-3-3 ● KN22 Class A ● CNS13438 Class A |
| EMC: Immunity | ● EN50082-1 ● EN61000-6-1 ● EN55024 ● CISPR24 ● EN300386 ● KN 61000-4 Series |
| Item | Requirements |
| X-Series chassis | Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X9508 Server Chassis |
| Fabric interconnect | 6454, 64108, and 6536 fabric interconnects |
| Cisco Intersight | Intersight Managed Mode |
Table 4 provides ordering information for the Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X9508 Chassis.
| Part number | Description |
| HCIX-M7-MLB | Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X-Series M7 with Nutanix MLB |
| HCIX-9508-U | Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X9508 Server Chassis configured |
| HCIX-9508-CH | DISTI: Cisco UCS X9508 Chassis |
For information about installing or upgrading Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X-Series, see the Hardware Installation guide. For ordering information, see the Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X-Series specification document.
The Cisco Compute Hyperconverged X-Series System has a three-year Next-Business-Day (NBD) hardware warranty and a 90-day software warranty.
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Table 5. Cisco environmental sustainability information
| Sustainability topic | Reference | |
| General | Information on product-material-content laws and regulations | Materials |
| Information on electronic waste laws and regulations, including our products, batteries, and packaging | WEEE Compliance | |
| Information on product takeback and reuse program | Cisco Takeback and Reuse Program | |
| Sustainability inquiries | Contact: csr_inquiries@cisco.com | |
| Operating and nonoperating conditions | ||
| Regulatory compliance | ||
| Power | Power supply | Main features Table 1. Product specifications |
| Thermal overview | Main features Table 1. Product specifications | |
| Material | Product packaging weight and materials | Contact: environment@cisco.com |
| Modular design | Benefits | |
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For more information about Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix, go to https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/hyperconverged-infrastructure/compute-hyperconverged-nutanix/series.html.
