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Appendix C RAID Controller Considerations
Support Matrix For Cisco UCS C240 M4 Server RAID Controllers
Support Matrix For Cisco UCS C240 M4 Server RAID Controllers
lists the support for the available controllers by server version.
Cisco UCS SAS 9300-8e HBA Considerations
This section contains the following topics:
•
Optical Cables Not Supported for 9300-8e HBA, page C-4
•
•
Cisco UCS 9300-8e Bad Drive and Predictive Failure Behavior, page C-4
•
Setting the Preferred Boot Device for Cisco UCS 9300-8e, page C-5
Optical Cables Not Supported for 9300-8e HBA
The 9300-8e HBA does not support optical cables for connection to external storage (copper only).
Mixing Rules
Mixing the Cisco UCS 9300-8e HBA in the same server as the Cisco UCS 12G SAS Modular HBA
requires the following firmware levels:
•
Cisco IMC/BIOS 2.0(8) or later
•
Cisco UCS Manager 2.2(6) or later (for integrated servers only)
Cisco UCS 9300-8e Bad Drive and Predictive Failure Behavior
The bad drive and predictive failure behavior for the Cisco UCS SAS 9300-e HBA cards is different than
that for LSI MegaRAID cards. The list below compares behavior for these HBA cards and LSI
MegaRAID cards.
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Bad/invalid/0MB drive handling:
–
MegaRAID: The bad drive is marked BAD in the GUI/CLI interfaces and the fault LED on the
drive is solid amber.
Table C-2
Support Matrix For C240 M4 RAID Controllers
C240 M4
Version
Boot SSD
(Internal)
Supported?
Embedded
Software
RAID
Control
Boot SSD
(Internal)?
AHCI
Mode
Control
Boot SSD
(Internal)?
Hardware
Controller
Card
Control
Boot SSD
(Internal)?
Embedded
Software
RAID
Control
Front-Facing
drives?
AHCI mode
Control
Front-Facing
drives?
Cisco 12G
Modular
RAID
Controller
Card Control
Front-Facing
Drives?
SAS 9300-8i
HBA Controller
Card Control
Front-Facing
Drives?
SFF 8 HDD
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
N/A
LFF 12 HDD Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
SFF 16 HDD No
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
No
Yes
N/A
SFF 24 HDD Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
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