| Chassis | Two rack unit (2RU) chassis |
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| CPU | One or two 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® scalable family CPUs |
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| Chipset | Intel® C621 series chipset |
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| Memory | 24 slots for registered DIMMs (RDIMMs), load-reduced DIMMs (LRDIMMs), or through silicon via (TSV) DIMMs and support for Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory (PMem) |
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| Multi-bit Error Protection | This server supports multi-bit error protection. |
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| Video | The Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) provides video using the Matrox G200e video/graphics controller:- Integrated 2D graphics core with hardware acceleration
- 512MB total DDR4 memory, with 16MB dedicated to Matrox video memory
- Supports display resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 16bpp @ 60Hz
- High-speed integrated 24-bit RAMDAC
- Single lane PCI-Express host interface running at Gen 1 speed
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| SATA Interposer Board | An optional SATA interposer board supports up to eight front facing SATA-only drives. |
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| Power subsystem | Up to two of the following hot-swappable power supplies:- 770 W (AC)
- 1050 W (AC)
- 1050 W (DC)
- 1600 W (AC)
One power supply is mandatory; one more can be added for 1 + 1 redundancy. |
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| Front Panel | A front panel controller provides status indications and control buttons. |
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| ACPI | This server supports the advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI) 6.2 standard. |
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| Fans | Six hot-swappable fans for front-to-rear cooling |
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| Infiniband | The InfiniBand architecture is supported by the PCIe slots. |
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| Expansion slots | Up to six PCIe slots (on two riser cards)- Riser 1 (PCIe slots 1, 2, and 3), controlled by CPU 1 and CPU 2
- Option 1A: three slots available.
- Slot 1 = full height, 3/4 length, x8, 230 pins, CPU1, NCSI support.
- Slot 2 = full height, full length, x16, 230 pins, CPU1, NCSI and GPU support.
- Slot 3 = full height, half length, x8, 164 pins, CPU2.
- Option 1B: three slots available.
- Slot 1 = full height, 3/4 length, x8, 230 pins, CPU1, NCSI support.
- Slot 2 = full height, full length, x8, 230 pins, CPU1, NCSI support.
- Slot 3 = full height, full length, x8, 164 pins, CPU1.
- Riser 2 (PCIe slots 4, 5, and 6), all controlled by CPU 2. Three slots available.
- Option 2A: three slots available
- Slot 4 = full height, 3/4 length, x16, 230 pins, NCSI support.
- Slot 5 = full height, full length, x16, 230 pins, NCSI and GPU support.
- Slot 6 = full height, full length, x8, 164 pins.
- Option 2B: three slots available
- Slot 4 = full height, 3/4 length, x8, 230 pins, NCSI support.
- Slot 5 = full height, full length, x16, 230 pins, NCSI and GPU support.
- Slot 6 = full height, full length, x8, 164 pins.
- One connector for two rear SFF NVMe drives (from slot 4)
- Option 2C: three slots available
- Slot 4 = full height, 3/4 length, x8, 230 pins, NCSI support.
- Slot 5 = full height, full length, x8, 230 pins, NCSI and GPU support.
- Slot 6 = full height, full length, x8, 164 pins.
- One connector for two rear 2.5 inch NVMe drives (from slot 4) and one connector for two front 2.5 inch NVMe drives (from slot 5)
- Option 2D: three slots available (always ships with UCSC-C240-M5SN, not available for other chassis versions)
- Slot 4 = full height, 3/4 length, x16, 164 pins, NCSI support. Also supports PCIe switch card for supporting 8 front 2.5 NVMe drives
- Slot 5 = full height, full length, x8, 230 pins, NCSI support.
- Slot 6 = full height, full length, x8, 164 pins.
- One connector for two rear 2.5 inch NVMe drives (from slot 6)
- Dedicated RAID controller slot (see Images Above)
- An internal slot is reserved for the Cisco 12G SAS RAID controller or the Cisco 12G SAS HBA.
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| Internal storage devices | - UCSC-C240-M5SX:
- 24 SFF front-facing SAS/SATA hard drives (HDDs) or SAS/SATA solid state drives (SSDs).
- Optionally, up to two front-facing SFF NVMe PCIe SSDs (replacing SAS/SATA drives). These drives must be placed in front drive bays 1 and 2 only and are controlled from Riser 2 option C.
- Optionally, up to two SFF, rear-facing SAS/SATA HDDs/SSDs or up to two rear-facing SFF NVMe PCIe SSDs. Rear facing SFF NVMe drives are connected from Riser 2, Option B or C.
- UCSC-C240-M5SN:
- Up to eight front-facing SFF NVMe PCIe SSDs only (replacing SAS/SATA drives). These drives must be placed in front drive bays 1 through 8 only and are connected from Riser 2 slot 4 (from a PCIe switch).
- 16 SFF front-facing SAS/SATA hard drives (HDDs) or SAS/SATA solid state drives (SSDs). Drives occupy slots 9-24.
- Optionally, up to two SFF, rear-facing SFF NVMe PCIe SSDs (must be NVMe only).Rear facing NVMe drives are connected from Riser 2.
- UCSC-C240-M5S:
- Eight SFF, front-facing SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs.
- Optionally, up to two front-facing NVMe PCIe SSDs (replacing SAS/SATA drives). These drives must be placed in front drive bays 1 and 2 only and are controlled from Riser 2 option C.
- Optionally, up to two SFF, rear-facing SAS/SATA HDDs/SSDs or up to two rear-facing SFF NVMe PCIe SSDs. Rear facing SFF NVMe drives are connected from Riser 2, Option B or C
- Optionally, one front-facing DVD drive
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| - | - One internal USB 3.0 port on the motherboard that you can use with an optional 16 GB USB thumb drive for additional storage.
- A mini-storage module connector on the motherboard supports either:
- An SD card module with two SD card slots. Mixing different capacity SD cards is not supported, or
- An M.2 module with two SATA M.2 SSD slots.Mixing different capacity M.2 modules is not supported.
NOTE: SD cards and M.2 SSDs cannot be mixed. |
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| - | One slot for a micro-SD card on PCIe Riser 1 (Option 1 and 1B). The micro-SD card serves as a dedicated local resource for utilities such as HUU. Images can be pulled from a file share (NFS/CIFS) and uploaded to the cards for future use |
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| I/O Interfaces | - Rear panel
- One 1Gbase-T RJ-45 management port (Marvell 88E6176)
- Two 10Gbase-T LOM ports (Intel X550 controller embedded on the motherboard)
- One RS-232 serial port (RJ45 connector)
- One DB15 VGA connector
- Two USB 3.0 port connectors
- One flexible modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) slot that can accommodate various interface cards
- Front panel
- One KVM console connector (supplies two USB 2.0 connectors, one VGA DB15 video connector, and one serial port (RS232)
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| Storage controller | - Embedded RAID (software RAID)
- Supports up to 8 SATA-only drives
- Requires a SATA interposer board
- Cisco 12G SAS RAID controller card with internal SAS connectivity.
- Supports up to 26 internal SAS/SATA drives
- Plugs into a dedicated RAID controller slot
- Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 or JBOD mode
- Cisco 12G SAS HBA (JBOD/Pass-through Mode)
- Supports up to 26 SAS/SATA internal drives
- Plugs into the dedicated RAID controller slot
- Cisco 12G 9400-8e SAS HBA
- Supports external JBOD attach
- Plugs into an appropriate riser slot (up to two are supported)
- No RAID support
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| Modular LAN on Motherboard (mLOM) slot | The dedicated mLOM slot on the motherboard can flexibly accommodate the following cards:- Cisco Virtual Interface Cards
- Quad Port Intel i350 1GbE RJ45 mLOM Network Interface Card (NIC)
NOTE: The four Intel i350 ports are provided on an optional card that plugs into the mLOM slot, and are separate from the two embedded (on the motherboard) LAN ports |
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| Integrated management processor | Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) running Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) firmware.
Depending on your CIMC settings, the CIMC can be accessed through the 1GE dedicated management port, the 1GE/10GE LOM ports, or a Cisco virtual interface card (VIC).
CIMC manages certain components within the server, such as the Cisco 12G SAS HBA. |
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| UCSM | UCS Manager (UCSM) runs in the Fabric Interconnect and automatically discovers and provisions some of the server components. |
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C240 M5 8x2.5" Chassis 
Cisco C-Series C240 M5 24x2.5" Tri Chassis
Cisco C-Series C240 M5 24x2.5 Chassis
PCIe Riser 1 required
PCIe Riser 2 options (all slots controlled with CPU2)
