Datasheet

Cisco UCS C460 M4 High-Performance Rack-Mount Server
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CONFIGURING the SERVER
STEP 5 CHOOSE RAID CONFIGURATION
The C460 M4 server accommodates any one of the following RAID controllers for internal drives:
LSI MegaRAID SAS 9361CV-8i RAID controller
Cisco 12G SAS Modular 8-port RAID controller
Cisco 12G SAS Modular 12-port RAID controller
The C460 M4 server accommodates the following HBA for external drives:
Cisco 9300-8E 12G SAS HBA (supports JBOD only)
The C460 M4 chassis contains a front drive bay housing up to 12 HDDs or SSDs.
Cisco can provide factory-configured RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10 systems depending on the RAID
implementation chosen, the RAID controller chosen, and the number of drives ordered.
Factory-configured RAID options are listed at the end of
Table 11. Note that RAID levels 50 and
60 are supported on the Cisco 12G SAS Modular 12-port RAID controller, but are not factory
configurable.
Choose Internal Drive RAID Controller
Choose one internal RAID controller with a desired RAID configuration option from Tab le 11.
Table 11 Available Internal Drive RAID Options
Product ID (PID) PID Description
RAID Controllers
UCS-RAID9361CV-8I LSI MegaRAID SAS 9361CV-8i controller (RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
supported)
Plugs into a dedicated PCIe slot on the server motherboard (see
Figure 7 on page 56).
Supports from 1 to 8 internal SAS or SATA drives
Includes a 1 GB Transportable Memory Module (TMM) and a
chassis-mounted (remote) supercapacitor for data cache power backup
Factory-configured RAID options: RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 (see the RAID PIDs
section in this table)