Datasheet

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

CONFIGURING the SERVER

Approved Configurations

The C240 M3 SFF server can be ordered as a UCSC-C240-M3S2 (16-drive backplane with no SAS expander) or

a UCSC-C240-M3S (24-drive backplane with SAS expander).

■ ROM5 and ROM 55 embedded RAID upgrade options support up to 8 internal drives with the

16-drive backplane and are not supported for the 24-drive backplane.

■ Mezzanine cards (UCSC-RAID-11-C240 and UCSC-RAID-MZ-240) support up to internal 8 drives

for the 16-drive backplane, and up to 16 internal drives for the 24-drive backplane.

■ The SAS 9271-8i and 9271CV-8i PCIe cards support up to 8 internal drives each for the

16-drive backplane, and up to 24 drives for the 24-drive backplane. For the UCSC-C240-M3S2

server, a two-CPU system is required to support two 9271-8i or 9271CV-8i PCIe cards and up

to 16 drives. For the UCSC-C240-M3 server, a single 9271-8i or 9271CV-8i PCIe card supports

up to 24 drives in either a one-CPU or two-CPU system.

■ The Cisco Nytro MegaRAID 200 GB card supports up to 24 internal drives for the 2-CPU

24-drive backplane only.

■ LSI MegaRAID SAS 9285CV-8e and 9286CV-8e PCIe cards support up to 8 external SAS ports

(240 external drives).

See Table 9 for a summary of the supported RAID configuration options.

NOTE: For the 16-drive backplane server, if you do not select a mezzanine card, a

PCIe RAID controller, or one of the embedded RAID upgrade options, you will have an

embedded SATA-only RAID controller that supports up to four SATA-only drives (RAID

0, 1, 10).

NOTE: As shown in the table, the NYTRO MegaRAID 200 RAID controller is supported

only in slot 3 of a 2-CPU 24-drive backplane system (UCSC-C240-M3S).