Cisco UCSC C240 M4SX Technical Specifications
Two rack unit (2RU) chassis
Processor:
One or two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 or v4 series processor family CPUs
Chipset:
Intel® C610 series chipset
Memory:
24 slots for registered ECC DIMMs (RDIMMs) or load-reduced DIMMs (LRDIMMs)
Multi-bit Error Protection:
This server supports multi-bit error protection.
Expansion slots:
Up to six PCIe slots (on two riser cards)
- Riser 1 (PCIe slots 1, 2, and 3), controlled by CPU 1
- Riser 2 (PCIe slots 4, 5, and 6), controlled by CPU 2. Three slots available. Slot 4 = full height, 3/4 length, x8, NCSI. Slot 5 = full height, full length, x16, NCSI, GPU capable. Slot 6 = full height, full length, x8. NCSI is supported on only one slot at a time.
- Dedicated RAID controller slot
PCIe Interposer Board:
An optional interposer board inside the chassis containing two mini-SAS HD connectors allows two front-mount NVMe SFF 2.5” drives to mount in drive bays 1 and 2 (only) and connect to the PCIe bus of CPU2.
Video:
The Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) provides video using the Matrox G200e video/graphics controller:
- Integrated 2D graphics core with hardware acceleration
- DDR2/3 memory interface supports up to 512 MB of addressable memory (8 MB is allocated by default to video memory)
- Supports display resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 16bpp @ 60Hz
- High-speed integrated 24-bit RAMDAC
- Single lane PCI-Express host interface running at Gen 1 speed
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/SATA hard drives (HDDs) or SAS/SATA solid state drives (SSDs)2 with the 24-drive backplane (with expander) server configuration, plus two optional internal 2.5 inch SATA SSDs for booting an OS.
- 16 2.5 inch (63.5 mm) SAS/SATA HDDs or SAS/SATA SSDs with the 16-drive backplane (with expander) server configuration
- 8 2.5 inch (63.5 mm) SAS/SATA HDDs or SAS/SATA SSDs with the 8-drive backplane server (no expander) configuration.
- NVMe SFF 2.5” drives These drives can placed in front drive bays 1 and 2 only.
The server also contains one internal USB 3.0 port on the motherboard that you can use with an optional 16 GB USB thumb drive for additional storage
UCS Storage Accelerators are also available. These PCIe plug-in flash storage cards provide independent high-speed storage.
Cisco Flexible Flash drives:
The server supports up to two internal 32 GB or two internal 64 GB Cisco Flexible Flash drives (SD cards).
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.
Interfaces:
Rear pane
- One DB15 VGA connector
- One RJ45 serial port connector
- Two USB 3.0 port connectors
- One RJ-45 10/100/1000 Ethernet management port, using Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) firmware
- Two Intel i350 embedded (on the motherboard) GbE LOM ports
- One flexible modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) slot that can accommodate various interface cards
Various PCIe card ports (dependent on which cards are installed)
- Virtual Interface Card (VIC) ports
- Converged Network Adapter (CNA) ports
- Network Interface Card (NIC) ports
- Host Bus Adapter (HBA) ports
Front panel
- One KVM console connector (supplies two USB 2.0 connectors, one VGA DB15 video connector, and one serial port (RS232) RJ45 connector)
Power subsystem:
Up to two of the following hot-swappable power supplies:
- 650 W (AC)
- 1200 W (AC)
- 1400 W (AC)
One power supply is mandatory; one more can be added for 1 + 1 redundancy.
Storage controller:
Embedded Software RAID (6 Gbps)
- Embedded SATA-only RAID controller, supporting up to 8 SATA-only drives (RAID 0, 1), or
- Embedded Software RAID 5 key upgrade, supporting up to 8 SATA-only drives (RAID 0, 1, 10, 5)
Note that embedded RAID options can be supported only with the version of the C240 M4 SFF server that has been configured with an 8-drive backplane.
Cisco 12G SAS Modular RAID controller card with internal SAS connectivity.
Supports up to 24 internal drives
Plugs into a dedicated RAID controller slot
Fans:
Chassis:
- Six hot-swappable fans for front-to-rear cooling
Boot drives:
Up to two optional SATA drives can be installed internal to the chassis on riser 1. The two SATA boot drives are supported only on the 24-drive backplane chassis version and are managed in AHCI mode, using OS-based software RAID.
Storage controller:
Cisco 12 Gbps Modular SAS HBA with internal SAS connectivity
- Supports up to 24 internal drives
- Is compatible with all backplane versions (8-, 16-, and 24-drive backplanes)
- Plugs into a dedicated PCIe slot at the rear of the server (slot 1 of riser 1)
- Supports JBOD only, not RAID
Cisco 9300-8E 12G SAS HBA with external SAS connectivity
- Provides 8 external SAS ports
- Plugs into a PCIe slot at the rear of the server
- No FBWC (cache) or cache power backup
- SAS 3.0 compliant
Embedded NIC:
Two embedded (on the motherboard) Intel i350 GbE ports, supporting the following:
- Pre-Execution Boot (PXE boot)
- iSCSI boot
- Checksum and segmentation offload
- NIC teaming
Modular LAN on Motherboard (mLOM) slot:
The mLOM slot can flexibly accommodate the following cards:
- Cisco Virtual Interface Cards (VIC)
- Quad Port Intel i350 1GbE RJ45 Network Interface Card (NIC)
NOTE: The four Intel i350 ports are provided on an optional card that plugs into the mLOM slot, and are separate from the two embedded (on the motherboard) LAN ports
Integrated management processor:
Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) running Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) firmware.
Depending on your CIMC settings, the CIMC can be accessed through the 1-GbE dedicated management port, the 1-GbE LOM ports, or a Cisco virtual interface card (VIC).
