Cisco UCS C220 M3 Spec Sheet page 27

Approved Configurations
The C220 M3 LFF server has a 4-drive backplane.
LSI ROM1 and LSI ROM15 embedded RAID upgrade options support up to 4 drives.
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Mezzanine card (UCSC-RAID-11-C220) supports up to 4 drives.
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Mezzanine card (UCSC-RAID-MZ-220) supports up to 4 drives.
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SAS 9271-8i and 9271CV-8i PCIe cards support up to 4 drives.
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LSI MegaRAID SAS 9285CV-8e and 9286CV-8e PCIe cards support up to 8 external SAS ports
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(240 external drives).
See Table 9
Table 9 Supported RAID Configurations
#
Server
CPUs
C220 M3 LFF 1
C220 M3 LFF 1
C220 M3 LFF 1
C220 M3 LFF 2
C220 M3 LFF 2
C220 M3 LFF 2
C220 M3 LFF 2
C220 M3 LFF 2
Cisco UCS Cisco UCS C220 M3 High-Density Rack Server (Large Form Factor Hard Disk Drive Model)
NOTE: If you do not select a mezzanine card, a PCIe RAID controller, or one of the
embedded RAID upgrade options, you will have an embedded SATA-only RAID
controller that supports up to four SATA-only drives (RAID 0, 1, 10)
for a summary of the supported RAID configuration options.
Embedded Mezz
RAID
RAID 1
Not
Enabled
6
allowed
Not Not
allowed allowed
Not Not
allowed allowed
Not
Enabled
allowed
Not
Installed
allowed
Not Not
allowed allowed
Not Card
allowed absent
Not
Installed
allowed
Internal Internal
PCIe RAID PCIe
#1 2 RAID #2 3
Not Not
allowed allowed
Installed
Not
slot 1
allowed
(default)
Not Not
allowed allowed
Not Not
allowed allowed
Not Not
allowed allowed
Installed
Not
slot 2
allowed
(default)
Not Not
allowed allowed
Not Not
allowed allowed
CONFIGURING the SERVER
External
# Drives
PCIe
Supported
RAID 4
Not
4 internal
allowed
Not
4 internal
allowed
Installed 240
slot 1 external
Not
4 internal
allowed
Card
4 internal
absent
Not
4 internal
allowed
Installed
240
slot 1 or
external
slot 2
Installed 4 internal
slot 1 or 240
slot 2 external
5
PCIe Slots
1 2
A U
O U
O U
A A
A A
A O
A A
A A
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