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:

• 44-core appliance: Cisco part number DN2-HW-APL
• 44-core promotional appliance: Cisco part number DN2-HW-APL-U
• 56-core appliance: Cisco part number DN2-HW-APL-L
• 56-core promotional appliance: Cisco part number DN2-HW-APL-L-U
• 112-core appliance: Cisco part number DN2-HW-APL-XL
• 112-core promotional appliance: Cisco part number DN2-HW-APL-XL-U

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

• 2 x 480 GB in RAID 1
• 2 x 3.8 TB in RAID 1
• 16 x 1.9 TB in RAID 10

Disk Management (RAID)

• RAID 1 on drive bays 1 and 2
• RAID 10 on slots 3 through 18
• RAID 1 on drive bays 19 and 20

Network and Management I/O

• Supported connectors:
• Two 10 Gbps Ethernet ports on the Intel X710-DA2 NIC
• Two 10 Base-T Gbps Ethernet ports
• One Gigabit Ethernet management port
• The following connectors are available but not typically used in the day-to-day operation of Cisco DNA Center:
• One RS-232 serial port (RJ-45 connector)
• One VGA (DB-15) connector
• Three USB 3.0 connectors
• One front-panel KVM connector that is used with the KVM cable, which provides two USB 2.0, one VGA (DB-15), and one serial port (RS-232) RJ-45 connector.
• 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.