Cisco APIC-EM Series Appliances

This chapter describes Cisco APIC-EM series appliances specifications.

Cisco APIC-EM Series Appliances

Cisco provides a dedicated Cisco APIC-EM physical appliance that can be purchased from Cisco with the ISO image preinstalled and tested. The following two physical appliances are currently available for purchase from Cisco:

  • Cisco APIC-EM Controller Appliance 10C-64G-2T (Part Number APIC-EM-APL-R-K9)

  • Cisco APIC-EM Controller Appliance 20C-128G-4T (Part Number APIC-EM-APL-G-K9)

The following table describes the basic system configurations for these appliances.

Platform

APIC-EM-APL-R-K9

APIC-EM-APL-G-K9

Physical CPU

1 physical CPU

2 physical CPUs

CPU (cores)

10

Note   

Hyper-threading is enabled by default, therefore 20 logical processors are available for this appliance.

20

Note   

Hyper-threading is enabled by default, therefore 40 logical processors are available for this appliance.

RAM

64 GB

128 GB

Total Disk Space

1.7 TB

3.4 TB

Ethernet NICs

2 (Gigabit Ethernet ports)

2 (Gigabit Ethernet ports)

Cisco APIC-EM Series Front and Rear Panels

The following figure displays the Cisco APIC-EM appliance front panel (APIC-EM-APL-G-K9 ).


Note

The Cisco APIC-EM appliance front panel (APIC-EM-APL-R-K9) shares a similar design.

Figure 1. Cisco APIC-EM Appliance Front Panel (APIC-EM-APL-G-K9 )

Component

Description

1

Drives (up to eight 2.5-inch drives)

2

Pull-out asset tag

3

Operations panel buttons and LEDs

4

Power button/power status LED

5

Unit identification button/LED

6

System status LED

7

Fan status LED

8

Temperature status LED

9

Power supply status LED

10

Network link activity LED

11

KVM connector (used with KVM cable that provides two USB 2.0, one VGA, and one serial connector)

The following figure displays the Cisco APIC-EM appliance rear panel (APIC-EM-APL-G-K9 ).


Note

The Cisco APIC-EM appliance rear panel (APIC-EM-APL-R-K9) shares a similar design.

Figure 2. Cisco APIC-EM Appliance Rear Panel (APIC-EM-APL-G-K9 )

Component

Description

1

PCIe riser 1/slot 1

2

PCIe riser 2/slot 2

3

Modular LAN-on-motherboard (mLOM) card slot

4

Grounding-lug hole (for DC power supplies)

5

USB 3.0 ports (two)

6

1-Gb Ethernet dedicated management port

7

Serial port (RJ-45 connector)

8

Dual 1-Gb Ethernet ports (LAN1 and LAN2)

9

VGA video port (DB-15)

10

Rear unit identification button/LED

11

Power supplies (up to two, redundant as 1+1)

Summary of Appliance Series Features

The following table lists the Cisco APIC-EM appliance series hardware features.

Table 1 Cisco APIC-EM Appliance Series Hardware Features

Feature

Description

Chassis

One rack-unit (1RU) chassis.

Processors

Up to two Intel Xeon CPU E5-2650 v3 Series processors.

Memory

24 DDR4 DIMM sockets on the motherboard (12 each CPU).

Baseboard management

BMC, running Cisco Integrated Management Controller (Cisco IMC) firmware.

Depending on your Cisco IMC settings, Cisco IMC can be accessed through the 1-Gb dedicated management port, the 1-Gb Ethernet LOM ports, or a Cisco virtual interface card.

Network and Management I/O

Supported connectors:

  • One 1-Gb Ethernet dedicated management port

  • Two 1-Gb BASE-T Ethernet LAN ports

  • One RS-232 serial port (RJ-45 connector)

  • One 15-pin VGA2 connector

  • Two USB3 3.0 connectors

  • One front-panel KVM connector that is used with the KVM cable, which provides two USB 2.0, one VGA, and one serial (DB-9) connector

Modular LOM

Dedicated socket that can be used to add an mLOM card for additional rear-panel connectivity (up to four 1-Gb or 10-Gb Ethernet ports).

Power

Two power supplies:

  • AC power supplies 770 W AC each.

Do not mix power supply types or wattages in the server.

Redundant as 1+1.

Cooling

Six hot-swappable fan modules for front-to-rear cooling.

Storage

  • APIC-EM-APL-R-K9: 4 SAS HDD of 900 GB each

  • APIC-EM-APL-G-K9: 8 SAS HDD of 900 GB each

Disk Management (RAID)

Hardware-based RAID at RAID Level 10

Video

VGA video resolution up to 1920 x 1200, 16 bpp at 60 Hz, and up to 256 MB of video memory.

Cisco UCS Server Support for Cisco APIC-EM

The Cisco APIC-EM is available and can be deployed using the following methods: