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Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server Chassis Installation and Service Guide
Appendix E Upgrading to Cisco UCS S3260 System With S3260 M5 Server Nodes
Differences Between Cisco UCS C3160 and S3260 Systems
Differences Between Cisco UCS C3160 and S3260 Systems
lists the differences between Cisco UCS C3160 and Cisco UCS S3260 systems.
Note
Migration of S3260 to C3160 is not supported. After you migrate a C3160 to a S3260, you cannot reverse
the migration back to C3160.
Table E-1
Differences Between Cisco UCS C3160 and Cisco UCS S3260 Systems
System
Cisco
IMC
Min.
UCS
Manage
r Min.
UCSM-
Managed or
Standalone
Supported SIOC
Number of Server
Nodes Supported
Rear-Pane
l SSD
Drives
Supported
I/O
Expande
r Module
Support
Storage Controller Card
Support
C3160 with
M3 server
node
2.0(3)
NA
Standalone
only
UCSC-C3160-SIOC
Removable adapter card
One M3 server
node
(Intel Xeon
v2-based)
2
No
One in server node:
•
UCSC-C3X60-R1GB
•
UCSC-C3X60-R4GB
•
UCSC-C3X60-HBA
C3260 with
M3 server
nodes
2.0(7)
3.1(2)
Standalone or
UCSM mode
UCSC-S3260-SIOC
Integrated VIC 1300
Series chip
One or two M3
server nodes
(Intel Xeon
v2-based)
4
No
One in each server node:
•
UCSC-C3X60-R1GB
•
UCSC-C3X60-R4GB
•
UCSC-C3X60-HBA
S3260 with
M4 server
nodes
2.0(13)
3.1(2)
Standalone or
UCSM mode
UCSC-S3260-SIOC
Integrated VIC 1300
Series chip
One or two M4
server nodes
(Intel Xeon
v4-based)
4
Yes
Rules for server node and I/O
expander:
•
UCS-C3K-M4RAID
•
UCS-S3260-DHBA
•
If server node has
DHBA, then no
controller in I/O.
•
If server node has
M4RAID, then I/O can
have M4RAID (not
DHBA).
•
If server node has no
controller, I/O can have
DHBA or M4RAID.
S3260 with
M5 server
nodes
3.1(3)
3.2(3)
Standalone or
UCSM mode
•
UCSC-S3260-SIOC
Integrated VIC 1300
Series chip
•
UCS-S3260-PCISIOC
Removable adapter
card
Note:
This SIOC
requires Cisco IMC &
UCS Manager 4.0(1
n
)
or later.
One or two M5
server nodes
(Intel Xeon
Scalable Processor
Family v1-based)
4
Yes
One in server node only (not
in I/O expander):
•
UCS-S3260-DHBA
•
UCS-S3260-DRAID