Cisco UCS C240 M3 High-Density Rack Server (Small Form Factor Disk Drive Model)
CONFIGURING the SERVER
25
UCS-RAID-9285CV-E or
UCS-RAID9286CV-8E
LSI MegaRAID SAS 9285CV-8e or 9286CV-8e (RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10)
■ Supports eight external SAS ports (up to 240 external drives).
■ Includes an chassis-mount (remote) supercapacitor to power on-board
1 GB flash-backed write cache.
■ Factory-configured RAID options: RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 (see the RAID
Configuration section in this table). Note that factory RAID configuration is
not available for these controllers, because the factory does not control
the storage array attached to them.
UCSC-NYTRO-200GB Cisco Nytro MegaRAID 200 GB RAID controller
■ Supports up to 24 internal SAS+SATA drives with the 24-drive backplane
system. SAS and SATA drives can be mixed.
■ 1 GB data cache backup
■ 200 GB flash memory.
■ Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, and 60
■ Operates at 6 Gbps.
■ Supported only in the 24-drive backplane version of the server
Table 8 Available PCIe RAID Controller Options (continued)
Product ID (PID) PID Description
NOTE: For SAS 9285CV-8e or 9286CV-8e external drive enclosure
support, see the compatibility list (enclosure section) at the following
link:
http://tinyurl.com/b4etshk
Cisco is able to support customers with questions related to the SAS
9285CV-8e or 9286CV-8e RAID cards; however, customers should
contact their storage vendor for technical support related to
enclosure/JBOD.
NOTE:
■ Must be installed in slot 3 only.
■ Supported only with RHEL 6.3 OS.
■ Supported only in 2-CPU systems.
■ Supported only in systems with E5-2600 series processor family
CPUs (not in systems with E5-2600 v2 series processor family CPUs)
■ Supports only HDDs.
■ Cannot coexist with multiple RAID controllers (embedded RAID,
mezzanine RAID card, or PCIe RAID controller).