Datasheet

Cisco UCS C240 M3 High-Density Rack Server (Small Form Factor Disk Drive Model)

CONFIGURING the SERVER

STEP 1 VERIFY SERVER SKU

Select one server product ID (PID) from Table 2.

The Cisco C240 M3 server:

■ Includes one tool-less rail kit (UCSC-RAIL-2U), adjustable from 26 inches (660 mm) to 36

inches (914 mm)

■ Includes either a 24- or 16-drive backplane.

■ Does not include power supply, CPU, memory, hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives

(SSDs), SD cards, or PCIe cards.

Table 2 PID of the C240 M3 High-Density SFF Rack Base Server

Product ID (PID) Description

UCSC-C240-M3S2 UCS C240 M3 SFF, no CPU, memory, HDD, power supply, or PCIe, with rail kit,

16-drive backplane, and no SAS expander

UCSC-C240-M3S UCS C240 M3 SFF, no CPU, memory, HDD, power supply, or PCIe, with rail kit,

24-drive backplane, and SAS expander

NOTE: Embedded RAID can only be used with the 16-drive backplane

version of the server.

Mezzanine cards can be used as follows:

■ A mezzanine card in a 16-drive backplane system supports up to 8

drives.

■ A mezzanine card in a 24-drive backplane system supports up to 16

drives.

NOTE: The Cisco Nytro MegaRAID 200 GB PCIe RAID controller can only

be used with the 24-drive backplane version of the server.

NOTE: Use the steps on the following pages to configure the server with

the components that you want to include.