
Cisco UCS C210 M2 General-Purpose Rack-Mount Server
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CONFIGURING the SERVER
Approved Configurations
(1) No RAID controller plug-in card
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If you did not choose a plug-in RAID controller (for example, you are using the mezzanine
card or the interated RAID controller on the motherboard), you can select up to five PCIe
option cards listed in
Table 9
.
(2) One RAID controller plug-in card
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If you selected a plug-in RAID controller, you can select up to four of the optional PCIe cards
listed in
Table 9
.
Caveats
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There are five PCIe slots. All are full-height. All of the PCIe adapter cards are half-height,
with the exception of the Virtual Interface Card (VIC) (N2XX-ACPCI01), which is a full-height
card.
— If you selected a plug-in RAID controller in
STEP 4 CHOOSE RAID CONFIGURATION
,
four slots remain available.
— Only a single Cisco UCS P81E Virtual Interface Card/ 2-port 10Gbp card may be
installed and it must be installed in slot 1 or slot 2. Note, however, that if the server
is running UCSM, only slot 1 is supported for the VIC card. See
Figure 3 on page 5
for slot numbering.
— All cards will fit in any slot.
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The MegaRAID cards (LSI MegaRAID SAS 9280-4i4e or LSI MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i) must be
installed in PCIe slot #4. Refer to
Figure 3 on page 5
for PCIe slot numbering.
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To help ensure that your operating system is compatible with the card you have selected,
please check the Hardware Compatibility List at this URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10477/prod_technical_reference_list.html
NOTE:
If a plug-in RAID controller card is installed, any optional PCIe card you select
will be installed in one of the remaining four PCIe slots. You can install a maximum of
one plug-in PCIe RAID controller card.
NOTE:
If you are using Unified Computing System Manager (UCSM), the Cisco UCS
P81E Virtual Interface Card/ 2-port 10Gbp card must be installed only in PCIe slot 1.