Datasheet

Cisco UCS C240 M3 High-Density Rack Server (Small Form Factor Disk Drive Model)
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BASE SERVER STANDARD CAPABILITIES and FEATURES
BASE SERVER STANDARD CAPABILITIES and FEATURES
Table 1 lists the capabilities and features of the base server. Details about how to configure the server for
a particular feature or capability (for example, number of processors, disk drives, or amount of memory)
are provided in
CONFIGURING the SERVER, page 11.
Table 1 Capabilities and Features
Capability/Feature Description
Chassis Two rack unit (2RU) chassis
CPU One or two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 or E5-2600 series processor family CPUs
Chipset Intel® C600 series chipset
Memory 24 slots for registered or unbuffered ECC DIMMs (RDIMMs or UDIMMs) or
load-reduced DIMMs (LRDIMMs)
Multi-bit Error
Protection
This server supports multi-bit error protection.
NIC Embedded quad-port Intel i350 PCIe-based Gigabit Ethernet controller, supporting
the following:
■ Pre-Execution Boot (PXE boot)
■ iSCSI boot
■ TOE offload
■ NIC teaming
Expansion slots Five PCIe slots (on two riser cards)
■ Riser 1 (PCIe slots 1, 2, and 3)
■ Riser 2 (PCIe slots 4 and 5)
Internal storage
devices
Drives are installed into front-panel drive bays that provide hot-pluggable access.
■ Small Form Factor (SFF) drives. The server can hold up to:
• 24 2.5 inch (63.5 mm) SAS or SATA hard drives (HDDs) or solid state drives
(SSDs) with the 24-drive backplane server configuration
• 16 2.5 inch (63.5 mm) SAS or SATA HDDs or SSDs with the 16-drive
backplane server configuration
■ The server also contains one internal USB 2.0 port on the motherboard that
you can use with a USB thumb drive for additional storage
■ UCS Storage Accelerator are also available. These PCIe flash storage devices
provide independent high-speed storage.
Cisco Flexible Flash
drives
The server supports up to two internal Cisco Flexible Flash drives (SD cards).
■ The first SD card is pre-loaded with four virtual drives. The four virtual drives
contain, respectively, the Cisco Server Configuration Utility, the Cisco Host
Upgrade Utility, the Cisco C-Series server drivers set, and a blank virtual drive
on which you can install an OS or a hypervisor.
■ 4 GB is available for general use
■ The second SD card is blank and can be used to mirror the first SD card. It
can be used to protect the Hypervisor Partition with RAID1.