Base Server Standard Capabilities And Features - Cisco UCS C240 M3 Manual

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
Table 1 Capabilities and Features
Capability/Feature
Chassis
CPU
Chipset
Memory
NIC
Expansion slots
Internal storage devices
Cisco Flexible Flash
drives
Cisco UCS C240 M3 High-Density Rack Server (Large Form Factor Hard Disk Drive Model)
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Description
Two rack unit (2RU) chassis
One or two Intel® E5-2600 series processor family CPUs
Intel® C600 series chipset
24 slots for registered ECC DIMMs or unregistered DIMMs
Embedded quad-port Intel i350 PCIe-based Gigabit Ethernet controller,
supporting the following:
Pre-Execution Boot (PXE boot)
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TCP Offload Engine (TOE)
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iSCSI boot
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Five PCIe slots (on two riser cards)
Riser 1 (PCIe slots 1, 2, and 3):
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• 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):
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• 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
Drives are installed into front-panel drive bays that provide hot-pluggable
access.
Large Form Factor (LFF) drives. The server can hold up to 12 3.5 inch
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SAS or SATA hard disk drives (HDDs). The server uses a 12-drive
backplane with a SAS expander.
The server also contains one internal USB 2.0 port on the motherboard
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that you can use with a USB thumb drive for additional storage
The server supports one optional internal Cisco Flexible Flash drive (SD
card).
The SD card is pre-loaded with four virtual drives. The four virtual
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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
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