UCS Blade Server HBA Support

[hardware]

I have started to look at the UCS blade server range this morning as we may need to work with this kit in an upcoming project.

From what I can see, HBA support is quite limited. I have an application that requires a Dialogic ISDN30 card in one of my servers but it looks like I won't be able to use this in a UCS blade server - am I correct in that assumption ?

TIA.

[Jeremy Waldrop]

There are 3 mezzanine cards supported in UCS B series blades:

• Cisco UCS M81KR Virtual Interface Card - Cisco developed HBA/NIC that was purpose build for virtualization. Can present anywhere from 1 to 54 vHBAs/vNICs to phyiscal server. Supported in ESX 4u1, Windows 2008 x64 and Red Hat 5.x - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10280/data_sheet_c78-525049.html

• Cisco UCS M71KR-E Emulex Converged Network Adapter - Emulex HBA/Intel 10G NIC. Supported by all server class operating systems. - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10280/data_sheet_c78-524774_ps10280_Products_Data_Sheet.html

• Cisco UCS M71KR-Q QLogic Converged Network Adapter - Emulex HBA/Intel 10G NIC. Supported by all server class operating  systems. - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10280/data_sheet_c78-524737_ps10280_Products_Data_Sheet.html

Hardware and Software Interoperability Matrix for B Series Servers - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/interoperability/matrix/hw_sw_interop_matrix_seriesBl1.2_v1.pdf

[hardware]

Jeremy,

Thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately I can't access the links that you have given for the three cards. The interoperability matrix, however, looks like it supports my understanding that the Dialogic card isn't supoorted.

Thanks for the help.