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Getting to Know the Cisco UCS C220 M5SX Server
The components of the Cisco UCS C220 M5SX Server front and rear panels (see the illustration
inside the back cover of this document) are highlighted in Table 1.
Table 1: Components of the Cisco UCS C220 M5SX Server Front and Rear Panels
Drive bays 1 – 10 support SAS/SATA hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid
state drives (SSDs)
UCSC-220-M5SX: Drive bays 1 and 2 support NVMe PCIe SSDs
Power button/power status LED
Unit identification button/LED
Network link activity LED
KVM connector (used with KVM cable that provides one DB-15 VGA,
one DB-9 serial, and two USB connectors)
Modular LAN-on-motherboard (mLOM) card bay (x16 PCIe lane)
Dual 1-Gb/10-Gb Ethernet ports (LAN1 and LAN2)
VGA video port (DB-15 connector)
1-Gb Ethernet dedicated management port
Serial port (RJ-45 connector)
Rear unit identification button/LED
Power supplies (two, redundant as 1+1)
PCIe riser 2/slot 2 (x16 lane)
PCIe riser 1/slot 1 (x16 lane)
Threaded holes for dual-hole grounding lug