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Cisco UCS S3260 System Storage Management

Storage Server Features and Components Overview, on page 1

Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Management Operations, on page 8

Disk Sharing for High Availability, on page 9

Storage Enclosure Operations, on page 13

Storage Server Features and Components Overview

Storage Server Features

The following table summarizes the Cisco UCS S3260 system features:

Table 1: Cisco UCS S3260 System Features

Description

Feature

Four rack unit (4RU) chassis

Chassis

• Cisco UCS S3260 M3 server nodes: Two Intel

Xeon E5-2600 v2 Series processors inside each
server node.

• Cisco UCS S3260 M4 server nodes: Two Intel

Xeon E5-2600 v4 Series processors inside each
server node.

Processors

Up to 16 DIMMs inside each server node.

Memory

This system supports multi-bit error protection.

Multi-bit error protection

The system has the following storage options:

Storage

The system supports up to two storage controllers:

• One dedicated mezzanine-style socket for a Cisco

storage controller card inside each server node

Disk Management

Cisco UCS S3260 System Storage Management

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Summary of Contents for UCS S3260

Page 1: ...Feature Four rack unit 4RU chassis Chassis Cisco UCS S3260 M3 server nodes Two Intel Xeon E5 2600 v2 Series processors inside each server node Cisco UCS S3260 M4 server nodes Two Intel Xeon E5 2600 v4 Series processors inside each server node Processors Up to 16 DIMMs inside each server node Memory This system supports multi bit error protection Multi bit error protection The system has the follow...

Page 2: ...ides two USB one VGA DB 15 and one serial DB 9 connector Network and Management I O Two or four power supplies 1050 W each hot swappable and redundant as 2 2 Power Four internal fan modules that pull front to rear cooling hot swappable Each fan module contains two fans In addition there is one fan in each power supply Cooling Front Panel Features The following image shows the front panel features ...

Page 3: ...llowing image shows the rear panel features for the Cisco UCS S3260 system Figure 2 Front Panel Features Disk Slots Not used at this time 8 Server bay 1 Optional I O expander as shown with Cisco UCS S3260 M4 server node only Optional server node Optional drive expansion module 1 Cisco UCS S3260 System Storage Management 3 Cisco UCS S3260 System Storage Management Storage Server Features and Compon...

Page 4: ...er bay 2 3 Cisco UCS S3260 M4 server node label M4 SVRN This label identifies a Cisco UCS S3260 M4 server node The Cisco UCS S3260 M3 server node does not have a label Note 11 Power supplies four redundant as 2 2 4 KVM console connector one each server node Used with a KVM cable that provides two USB one VGA and one serial connector 12 40 Gb SFP ports two on each SIOC 5 Server node unit identifica...

Page 5: ...tional I O expander module that attaches to the top of the server node Disk Slots The Cisco UCS S3260 chassis has 4 rows of 14 disk slots on the HDD motherboard and 4 additional disk slots on the HDD expansion tray The following image shows the disk arrangement for the 56 top accessible hot swappable 3 5 inch 6 TB or 4 TB 7200 rpm NL SAS HDD drives A disk slot has two SAS ports and each is connect...

Page 6: ...edundant mode and connect the disks at the chassis level to storage controllers on the servers The SAS expanders provide two paths between a storage controller and hence enable high availability They provide the following functionality Manage the pool of hard drives Disk zone configuration of the hard drives to storage controllers on the servers The following table describes how the ports in each ...

Page 7: ... Cisco UCS S3260 system even though disks can be physically present on the two types of enclosures described above from the host OS all the disks are viewed as part of one SCSI enclosure They are connected to SAS expanders that are configured to run as single SES enclosure Note Storage Controllers Mezzanine Storage Controllers The following table lists the storage controller type firmware type mod...

Page 8: ... system can manage the pool of drives at the chassis level To share disks for high availability perform the following 1 Creating disk zoning policies 2 Creating disk slots and assigning ownership 3 Associating disks to chassis profile Disk Sharing for High Availability Storage Profiles section in the Cisco UCS Manager Storage Management Guide Release 3 1 2 You can utilize Cisco UCS Manager s Stora...

Page 9: ...der certain conditions when dual HBA controllers are used Note Chassis Global Hot Spare If this option is selected you will need to set the value for the Slot Range for the disk Disk migration and claiming orphan LUNs To migrate a disk zoned to a server Server 1 to another server Server 2 you must mark the virtual drive LUN as transport ready or perform a hide virtual drive operation You can then ...

Page 10: ...UCS A scope org org name Step 1 Enters the disk zoning policy UCS A org disk zoning policy disk zoning policy name Step 2 Creates disk slot with the specified slot number UCS A org disk zoning policy create disk slot slot id Step 3 Specifies the disk ownership to be one of the following UCS A org disk zoning policy disk slot set ownership ownership type chassis global host spare dedicated shared u...

Page 11: ...y create disk slot 1 UCS A org disk zoning policy disk slot set ownership shared UCS A org disk zoning policy disk slot create controller ref 1 sas 1 UCS A org disk zoning policy disk slot create controller ref 2 sas 1 UCS A org disk zoning policy disk slot commit buffer UCS A org disk zoning policy disk slot Associating Disk Zoning Policies to Chassis Profile Procedure Purpose Command or Action E...

Page 12: ...isk migration For more information on virtual drives please refer to the virtual drives section in the Cisco UCS Manager Storage Management Guide Release 3 1 Procedure Purpose Command or Action Enters chassis mode for the specified chassis UCS A scope chassis chassis num Step 1 Enters the virtual drive container with the specified number UCS A chassis scope virtual drive container virtual drive co...

Page 13: ...ate of the virtual drive 1001 in the virtual drive container 1 to transport ready UCS A scope chassis UCS A chassis scope virtual drive container 1 UCS A chassis virtual drive container scope virtual drive 1001 UCS A chassis virtual drive container virtual drive set admin state transport ready UCS A chassis virtual drive container virtual drive commit buffer Storage Enclosure Operations Removing C...

Page 14: ...e enclosure storage enclosure name Step 2 Example The following example removes storage enclosure 25 from chassis 2 UCS A scope chassis 2 UCS A chassis remove storage enclosure 25 UCS A chassis Cisco UCS S3260 System Storage Management 14 Cisco UCS S3260 System Storage Management Removing Chassis Level Storage Enclosures ...

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