| Chassis | Two rack unit (2RU) chassis |
| CPU | One or two Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake® processor family CPUs
If NVMe drives are selected, you must also
select 2 CPUs. |
| Chipset | Intel® C621A series chipset |
| Memory | 32 slots for registered DIMMs (RDIMMs) or load-reduced DIMMs (LRDIMMs) and support for Intel® Optane™
Persistent Memory Modules (PMem) |
| Multi-bit Error Protection | This server supports multi-bit error protection. |
| Video | The Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) provides video using the Matrox G200e video/graphics
controller: - Integrated 2D graphics core with hardware acceleration
- DDR2/3 memory interface supports up to 512 MB of addressable memory (8 MB is allocated by
default to 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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| Power subsystem |
Up to two of the following hot-swappable power supplies: - 1050 W (AC)
- 1050 W (DC)
- 1600 W (AC)
- 2300 W (AC)
One power supply is mandatory; one more can be added for 1 + 1 redundancy. |
| Front Panel | A front panel controller provides status indications and control buttons |
| ACPI | This server supports the advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI) 6.2 standard. |
| Fans | Six hot-swappable fans for front-to-rear cooling |
| Infiniband | The InfiniBand architecture is supported by the PCIe slots. |
| Expansion slots | - Riser 1A (3 PCIe slots)
- Riser 1B (1 PCIe slot reserved for a drive controller and 2 HDD slots)
- Riser 2A (3 PCIe slots)
- Riser 3A (2 PCIe slots)
- Riser 3B (2 HDD slots)
- Riser 3C (1 full-length, double-wide GPU)
Note: Not all risers are available in every server configuration option.
One or two dedicated
slots (depending on the server type) for a SATA interposer or storage controller(s). |
|
Interfaces | - Rear panel
- One 1Gbase-T RJ-45 management port
- Two 10Gbase-T LOM ports
- 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) RJ45 connector)
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| Internal storage devices | - UCSC-C240-M6S (Option 1):
- Up to 12 front SFF SAS/SATA hard drives (HDDs) or SAS/SATA solid state drives
(SSDs).
- Optionally, up to four front SFF NVMe PCIe SSDs. These drives must be placed in
front drive bays 1, 2, 3, and 4 only. The rest of the bays (5 - 12) can be populated
with SAS/SATA SSDs or HDDs. Two CPUs are required when choosing NVMe SSDs.
- Optionally, one front-facing DVD drive
- Optionally, up to two SFF rear-facing SAS/SATA/NVMe drives
- If using a SATA Interposer, up to 8 SATA-only drives can be installed in slots 1-8.
- UCSC-C240-M6SX (Option 2):
- Up to 24 front SFF SAS/SATA hard drives (HDDs) or SAS/SATA solid state drives
(SSDs).
- Optionally, up to four front SFF NVMe PCIe SSDs. These drives must be placed in
front drive bays 1, 2, 3, and 4 only. The rest of the bays (5 - 24) can be populated
with SAS/SATA SSDs or HDDs. Two CPUs are required when choosing NVMe SSDs.
- Optionally, up to four SFF rear-facing SAS/SATA/NVMe drives
- UCSC-C240-M6N (Option 3):
- Up to 12 front NVMe (only) drives
- Optionally, up to 2 rear NVMe (only) drives
- Two CPUs are required when choosing NVMe SSDs
- UCSC-C240-M6SN (Option 4):
- Up to 24 front NVMe drives (only).
- Optionally, up to 2 rear NVMe drives (only)
- Two CPUs are required when choosing NVMe SSDs
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Other Storage: - A mini-storage module connector on the motherboard supports a boot-optimized
RAID controller carrier that holds up to two SATA M.2 SSDs. Mixing different capacity
SATA M.2 SSDs is not supported.
- 8GB FlexMMC utility storage for staging of firmware and other user data. 8GB
FlexMMC storage is built into the motherboard on M6.
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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 OCP/mLOM ports, or a Cisco virtual interface card
(VIC).
CIMC manages certain components within the server, such as the Cisco 12G SAS HBA. |
| Storage controllers | One SATA Interposer board, one 12G SAS RAID controller, or one or two 12G SAS HBAs
plug into a dedicated slot. - SATA Interposer board
- AHCI support of up to eight SATA-only drives (slots 1-8 only)
- Supported only on the UCSC-C240-M6S server
- Cisco 12G RAID SAS RAID controller with 4GB FBWC (for UCSC-240-M6S server)
- RAID support (RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10) and SRAID0
- Supports up to 16 internal SAS/SATA drives
- Cisco M6 12G SAS RAID controller with 4GB FBWC (for UCSC-240-M6SX server)
- RAID support (RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10) and SRAID0
- Supports up to 28 internal SAS/SATA drives
- Cisco M6 12G SAS HBA (for UCSC-240-M6S and UCSC-240-M6SX servers)
- No RAID support
- JBOD/Pass-through Mode support
- Each HBA supports up to 16 SAS/SATA internal drives
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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 |
| Intersight | Intersight provides server management capabilities |
| CIMC | Cisco Integrated Management Controller 4.2(1) or later |
| Notes: 1. If NVMe drives are selected, you must also select 2 CPUs. |
UCS C240 M6 12 SFF 
UCS C240 M6 24 SFF 
UCS C240 M6 12 NVMe Drive 
Riser 1A
Riser 1B
Riser 2A
Riser 3A
Riser 3B
Riser 3C
