Cisco UCS Cisco UCS C220 M3 High-Density Rack Server (Large Form Factor Hard Disk Drive Model)
CONFIGURING the SERVER
27
Approved Configurations
The C220 M3 LFF server has a 4-drive backplane.
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LSI ROM1 and LSI ROM15 embedded RAID upgrade options support up to 4 drives.
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Mezzanine card (UCSC-RAID-11-C220) supports up to 4 drives.
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Mezzanine card (UCSC-RAID-MZ-220) supports up to 4 drives.
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SAS 9271-8i and 9271CV-8i PCIe cards support up to 4 drives.
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LSI MegaRAID SAS 9285CV-8e and 9286CV-8e PCIe cards support up to 8 external SAS ports
(240 external drives).
See
Table 9
for a summary of the supported RAID configuration options.
NOTE:
If you do not select a mezzanine card, a PCIe RAID controller, or one of the
embedded RAID upgrade options, you will have an embedded SATA-only RAID
controller that supports up to four SATA-only drives (RAID 0, 1, 10)
Table 9 Supported RAID Configurations
Server
#
CPUs
Embedded
RAID
Mezz
RAID
1
Internal
PCIe RAID
#1
2
Internal
PCIe
RAID #2
3
External
PCIe
RAID
4
# Drives
Supported PCIe Slots
5
1
2
C220 M3 LFF
1
Enabled
Not
allowed
6
Not
allowed
Not
allowed
Not
allowed
4 internal
A
U
C220 M3 LFF
1
Not
allowed
Not
allowed
Installed
slot 1
(default)
Not
allowed
Not
allowed
4 internal
O
U
C220 M3 LFF
1
Not
allowed
Not
allowed
Not
allowed
Not
allowed
Installed
slot 1
240
external
O
U
C220 M3 LFF
2
Enabled
Not
allowed
Not
allowed
Not
allowed
Not
allowed
4 internal
A
A
C220 M3 LFF
2
Not
allowed
Installed
Not
allowed
Not
allowed
Card
absent
4 internal
A
A
C220 M3 LFF
2
Not
allowed
Not
allowed
Installed
slot 2
(default)
Not
allowed
Not
allowed
4 internal
A
O
C220 M3 LFF
2
Not
allowed
Card
absent
Not
allowed
Not
allowed
Installed
slot 1 or
slot 2
240
external
A
A
C220 M3 LFF
2
Not
allowed
Installed
Not
allowed
Not
allowed
Installed
slot 1 or
slot 2
4 internal
240
external
A
A