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 9.
Table 1 Capabilities and Features
Capability/Feature Description
Chassis Two rack unit (2RU) chassis
CPU One or two Intel® E5-2600 series processor family CPUs
Chipset Intel® C600 series chipset
Memory 24 slots for registered ECC DIMMs
NIC Embedded quad-port Intel i350 PCIe-based Gigabit Ethernet controller,
supporting the following:
■ Pre-Execution Boot (PXE boot)
■ TCP Offload Engine (TOE)
■ iSCSI boot
Expansion slots Five PCIe slots (on two riser cards)
■ Riser 1 (PCIe slots 1, 2, and 3):
• One x16 PCIe Gen3 Slot, x24 extended connector (Cisco CNIC),
Full-Height, half-length
• Two x8 PCIe Gen3 Slots Full Height, x16 connector, half-length
■ Riser 2 (PCIe slots 4 and 5):
• One x16 PCIe Gen3 Slot, Full Height, (225W GPU Ready & Cisco CNIC
support), x24 connector, three-quarter Length
• One x8 PCIe Gen3 Slot, half-height, x16 connector, half-length
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) (24-drive backplane with SAS expander configuration)
• 16 2.5 inch (63.5 mm) SAS or SATA HDDs or SSDs (16-drive backplane
with no SAS expander 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