Cisco UCS C240 M3 High-Density Rack Server (Small Form Factor Disk Drive Model)
CONFIGURING the SERVER
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Select RAID Options
Select as follows (these choices are dependent on the number of CPUs installed and the
backplane used (24-drive or 16-drive backplane)):
■ One embedded RAID upgrade option for internal drives, or
■ One mezzanine RAID controller for internal drives, or
■ One mezzanine RAID controller for internal drives and one RAID controller for external
drives, or
■ One RAID controller for internal drives, or
■ One RAID controller for internal drives and one RAID controller for external drives, or
■ Two RAID controllers for internal drives
NOTE: For details on all valid combinations of embedded RAID, mezzanine RAID, and
internal/external drive RAID controller combinations, see
RAID Details, page 72.
Table 6 Available Embedded RAID Options
Product ID (PID) PID Description
Embedded RAID Controllers (16-drive backplane server option only)
UCSC-RAID-ROM5 Onboard RAID, consisting of a plug-in storage controller unit (SCU), supporting
up to 8 internal SAS +SATA drives. SAS and SATA drives can be mixed. This
option supports RAID 0, 1, and 10, and operates at 3 Gb/s. Operating systems
supported are Windows and Linux only (no VMware support).
UCSC-RAID-ROM55 Onboard RAID, consisting of two plug-in modules (an SCU plus a software key
module) supporting up to 8 internal SAS+SATA drives. SAS and SATA drives can
be mixed. This option supports RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 and operates at 3 Gb/s.
Operating systems supported are Windows and Linux only (no VMware
support).
Table 7 Available Mezzanine Card RAID Options
Product ID (PID) PID Description
Mezzanine RAID Controllers (not supported in 1-CPU systems)
NOTE: VMware ESX/ESXi or any other virtualized environments are not supported
for use with the embedded MegaRAID controller. Hypervisors such as Hyper-V, Xen, or
KVM are also not supported for use with the embedded MegaRAID controller