
Cisco UCS C240 M4 High-Density Rack Server (Small Form Factor Disk Drive Model)
CONFIGURING the SERVER
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Approved Configurations
The C240 M4 SFF server can be ordered as a UCSC-C240-M4SX (24-drive backplane with SAS
expander), a UCSC-C240-M4S2 (16-drive backplane with SAS expander), or UCSC-C240-M4S
(8-drive backplane with no SAS expander).
■ The embedded software RAID 5 upgrade key option supports up to 8 internal SATA only drives
with the 8-drive backplane and is not supported for the 16-drive backplane or the 24-drive
backplane.
■ The Cisco 12G SAS Modular RAID controller supports up to 24 internal drives.
■ The Cisco 12G SAS 9300-8e PCIe external drive controller supports up to 8 external SAS+SATA
ports (up to 1024 non-RAID external devices)
R2XX-RAID6 Factory preconfigured RAID option
Enable RAID 6 Setting. Requires a minimum of four drives of the same size,
speed, capacity.
R2XX-RAID10 Factory preconfigured RAID option
Enable RAID 10 Setting. Requires a even number of drives (minimum of four
drives) of the same size, speed, capacity.
NOTE: Although RAID levels 50 and 60 are not orderable from the factory, they are
supported for selected controllers as shown in Table 9
NOTE: If you do not select a Cisco 12G SAS Modular RAID controller, or the
embedded software RAID 5 key upgrade option, you will have an embedded
SATA-only RAID controller that supports up to eight SATA-only drives (RAID 0, 1).
Table 9 RAID Controller Options (continued)
Product ID (PID) PID Description
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