Datasheet

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

CONFIGURING the SERVER

Approved Configurations

(1) No RAID controller plug-in card

■ If you did not choose a plug-in RAID controller (for example, you are using embedded RAID

or a mezzanine RAID controller), you can select up to five PCie option cards listed in

Table 9.

(2) One RAID controller plug-in card

■ If you selected a plug-in PCIe RAID controller, you can select only four of the optional PCIe

cards listed in

Table 9.

Caveats

■ For 1-CPU systems:

— Only the three PCIe slots on PCIe riser 1 are available. The three slots are PCIe slots

1, 2, and 3 (see

Figure 3 on page 5). These are the three slots on the right when

looking at the rear of the server.

— Neither the PCIe riser 2 (with the two PCIe slots numbered PCIe 4 and PCIe 5, at the

left when viewing the server from the rear) nor the mezzanine card are supported

on 1-CPU systems.

— Only a single VIC card (either the full-height Cisco UCS P81E or the half-height Cisco

VIC 1225 PCIe card) may be installed on a 1-CPU system, and it must be installed in

slot 2 of riser 1. See

Table 1 on page 6 for the slot descriptions.

■ For 2-CPU systems:

— Five PCIe slots are available, three on PCIe riser 1 (PCIe slots 1, 2, and 3) and two on

PCIe riser 2 (PCIe slots 4 and 5).

— All of the slots are full-height except one.

— All of the server PCIe adapter cards are half-height cards, with the exception of the

P81E Virtual Interface Card (VIC) (N2XX-ACPCI01), which is a full-height card.

Therefore, two VIC cards may be installed in 2-CPU systems, using slots 2 or 5. Note,

however, that if the server is using UCSM, only slot 2 is supported for the VIC card.

See

Table 1 on page 6 for the slot descriptions.

■ All PCIe cards will fit in either slot, except the full-height P81E VIC card, which must be

installed in a full-height slot (slots 2 or 5, except only slot 2 when the server uses UCSM).

■ Other considerations for the Cisco VIC 1225:

— Supports 10G SFP+ optical and copper twinax connections

— To use the Cisco Card NIC mode, this card must be installed in PCIe slot 2. Slot 2 can

operate while the server is in standby power mode.

— Requires that the server has CIMC firmware version 1.4(6) or later installed. There is

a heartbeat LED on the top of the card that indicates when firmware is active.