Appliance Hardware Specifications
Cisco supplies Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) Center in the form of a rack-mountable, physical appliance. The second-generation Cisco DNA Center appliance consists of either a Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) C220 M5 small form-factor (SFF) chassis or Cisco UCS C480 M5 chassis, both with the addition of one Intel X710-DA2 network interface card (NIC) and one Intel X710-DA4 NIC. Six versions of the second-generation appliance are available:
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44-core appliance: Cisco part number DN2-HW-APL
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44-core promotional appliance: Cisco part number DN2-HW-APL-U
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56-core appliance: Cisco part number DN2-HW-APL-L
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56-core promotional appliance: Cisco part number DN2-HW-APL-L-U
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112-core appliance: Cisco part number DN2-HW-APL-XL
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112-core promotional appliance: Cisco part number DN2-HW-APL-XL-U
The following tables summarize the appliance's hardware specifications.
Feature |
Description |
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Chassis |
One rack-unit (1RU) chassis. |
Processors |
Two 22-core Intel 6238 2.1 GHz processors |
Memory |
Eight 32 GB DDR4 2933 MHz registered DIMMs (RDIMMs) |
Storage |
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Disk Management (RAID) |
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Network and Management I/O |
Supported connectors:
The following connectors are available but not typically used in the day-to-day operation of Cisco DNA Center:
Note that the Intel X710-DA4 NIC, which provides four 10-Gbps Ethernet ports, has been disabled in this release of Cisco DNA Center and will be enabled in a future release of the product. |
Power |
Two 770 W AC power supplies. Redundant as 1+1. |
Cooling |
Seven hot-swappable fan modules for front-to-rear cooling. |
Video |
Video Graphics Array (VGA) video resolution up to 1920 x 1200, 16 bpp at 60 Hz, and up to 512 MB of video memory (8 MB is allocated by default). |
Feature |
Description |
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Chassis |
One rack-unit (1RU) chassis. |
Processors |
Two 28-core Intel 8280 2.7 GHz processors |
Memory |
Twelve 32 GB DDR4 2933 MHz RDIMMs |
Storage |
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Disk Management (RAID) |
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Network and Management I/O |
Supported connectors:
The following connectors are available but not typically used in the day-to-day operation of Cisco DNA Center:
Note that the Intel X710-DA4 NIC, which provides four 10-Gbps Ethernet ports, has been disabled in this release of Cisco DNA Center and will be enabled in a future release of the product. |
Power |
Two 770 W AC power supplies. Redundant as 1+1. |
Cooling |
Seven hot-swappable fan modules for front-to-rear cooling. |
Video |
Video Graphics Array (VGA) video resolution up to 1920 x 1200, 16 bpp at 60 Hz, and up to 512 MB of video memory (8 MB is allocated by default). |
Feature |
Description |
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Chassis |
Four rack-unit (4RU) chassis. |
Processors |
Two CPU modules, each with two 28-core Intel 8276 2.2 GHz processors |
Memory |
Twenty-four 32 GB DDR4 2933 MHz RDIMMs |
Storage |
|
Disk Management (RAID) |
|
Network and Management I/O |
Supported connectors:
The following connectors are available but not typically used in the day-to-day operation of Cisco DNA Center:
Note that the Intel X710-DA4 NIC, which provides four 10-Gbps Ethernet ports, has been disabled in this release of Cisco DNA Center and will be enabled in a future release of the product. |
Power |
Four 1600 W AC power supplies. Redundant as 3+1 (must be configured via the Cisco Integrated Management Controller). |
Cooling |
Four hot-swappable fan modules with two fans in each for front-to-rear cooling. |
Video |
VGA video resolution up to 1600 x1200, 16 bpp at 60 Hz, and up to 256 MB of video memory. |