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Data Sheet

Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server

Product Overview

The form-factor-agnostic Cisco

Unified Computing System

™

(Cisco UCS

™

) combines Cisco UCS C-Series Rack

Servers and B-Series Blade Servers with networking and storage access in a single converged system that

simplifies management and delivers greater cost efficiency and agility with increased visibility and control. The

latest expansion of the Cisco UCS portfolio includes the new Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server (two rack units

[2RU]) and Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server (1RU) and the Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server. These three new

servers increase compute density through more cores and cache balanced with more memory capacity and disk

drives and faster I/O. Together these server improvements and complementary Cisco UCS advancements deliver

the combination of features and cost efficiency required to support IT’s diverse server needs.

The Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server (Figure 1) is designed for both performance and expandability over a wide

range of storage-intensive infrastructure workloads, from big data to collaboration. Building on the success of the

Cisco UCS C210 M2 Rack Server, the enterprise-class Cisco UCS C240 M3 server further extends the capabilities

of the Cisco UCS portfolio in a 2RU form factor with the addition of the Intel

Xeon

processor E5-2600 product

family, which delivers an outstanding combination of performance, flexibility, and efficiency gains. The Cisco UCS

C240 M3 offers up to two Intel

Xeon

processor E5-2600 product family, 24 DIMM slots, 24 disk drives, and four

1 Gigabit Ethernet LAN-on-motherboard (LOM) ports to provide exceptional levels of internal memory and storage

expandability and exceptional performance.

The Cisco UCS C240 M3 interfaces with Cisco UCS using another Cisco innovation, the Cisco UCS Virtual

Interface Card (VIC 1225). The Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC 1225) is a virtualization-optimized Fibre

Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 x8 10-Gbps adapter designed for use with Cisco UCS

C-Series Rack Servers. The VIC is a dual-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe adapter that can support up to 256 PCIe

standards-compliant virtual interfaces, which can be dynamically configured so that both their interface type

(network interface card [NIC] or host bus adapter [HBA]) and identity (MAC address and worldwide name [WWN])

are established using just-in-time provisioning. In addition, the Cisco UCS VIC 1225 can support network interface

virtualization and Cisco

Data Center Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology.

Figure 1. Cisco UCS C240 M3 Server

Applications

Not all storage-intensive workloads are alike, and the Cisco UCS C240 M3 server’s disk configuration delivers

balanced performance and expandability to best meet individual workload requirements. With up to 12 LFF (Large

Form Factor) or 24 SFF (Small Form Factor) internal drives, the Cisco UCS C240 M3 optionally offers 10,000-

RPM and 15,000-RPM SAS drives to deliver a high number of I/O operations per second for transactional

Summary of content (8 pages)

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Data Sheet Cisco UCS C240 M3 Rack Server Product Overview ® ™ ™ The form-factor-agnostic Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS ) combines Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers and B-Series Blade Servers with networking and storage access in a single converged system that simplifies management and delivers greater cost efficiency and agility with increased visibility and control.
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workloads such as database management systems. In addition, high-capacity SATA drives provide an economical, large-capacity solution. Superfast SSDs are a third option for workloads that demand extremely fast access to smaller amounts of data. A choice of RAID controller options also helps increase disk performance and reliability.
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Figure 2. Cisco UCS Components Cisco innovations, such as Cisco UCS Manager, allows administrators to create a software definition for a desired server (using Cisco service profiles and templates) and then instantiate that server and its I/O connectivity by associating a service profile with physical resources. This approach contrasts with the traditional method of configuring each system resource manually, one at a time, through individual element managers.
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The Cisco UCS C240 M3 is also part of a large family of rack servers: the Cisco C-Series Rack Servers. Designed to operate both in standalone environments and as part of Cisco UCS, the Cisco UCS C-Series servers employ Cisco technology to help customers handle the most challenging workloads.
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Feature Benefit Cisco UCS C-Series Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) ● Web user interface for server management; remote keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM); virtual media; and administration ● Virtual media support for remote CD and DVD drives as if local ● Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) 2.
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Item Specification ● For a complete list of processor options, please refer to the corresponding LFF SpecSheet Cisco Flexible Flash (FlexFlash) Internal USB The server supports up to two internal 16GB Cisco FlexFlash drives (SD cards). One SD card is preloaded with four virtual drives.
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Ordering Information For a complete list of options, please refer to the corresponding SFF SpecSheet or LFF SpecSheet Cisco Unified Computing Services Using a unified view of data center resources, Cisco and our industry-leading partners deliver services that accelerate your transition to a Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Server solution.