The B200 series is a half-width blade server and is in the third-generation of UCS hardware. The B200 M4 supports the latest Intel® Xeon® E5 v3 or v4 processor family, while B200 M3 supports the Intel® Xeon® E5-2500 or E5-2600 v1 or v2 processor family.
The specifications of the latest B200 M3/M4 server are as follows:
- Two Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 or v4 processor family CPUs for B200 M4 and Intel® Xeon® E5-2500 or E5-2600 v2 processor family CPUs for B200 M3.
- A maximum of 1.5 TB total memory capacity (using 64 GB DIMMs). Total memory slots are 24.
- Two drive bays for SAS/SATA/SSD internal hard drives for up to 2 TB maximum storage capacity with built-in RAID 0 and 1 controller
- Up to 80 GB I/O throughput with supported mezzanine card
A B200 series entry-level blade server is the most deployed blade server and is an excellent choice for virtualization, web server farms, distributed databases, and CRM applications.