Cisco UCS C240 M3 High-Density Rack Server (Large Form Factor Hard Disk Drive Model)
BASE SERVER STANDARD CAPABILITIES and FEATURES
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BASE SERVER STANDARD CAPABILITIES and FEATURES
Table 1 lists the capabilities and features of the base server. Details about how to configure the server for 
a particular feature or capability (for example, number of processors, disk drives, or amount of memory) 
are provided in 
CONFIGURING the SERVER, page 8.
Table 1   Capabilities and Features 
Capability/Feature Description
Chassis Two rack unit (2RU) chassis
CPU One or two Intel® E5-2600 series processor family CPUs
Chipset Intel® C600 series chipset
Memory 24 slots for registered ECC DIMMs or unregistered DIMMs
NIC  Embedded quad-port Intel i350 PCIe-based Gigabit Ethernet controller, 
supporting the following:
■ Pre-Execution Boot (PXE boot)
■ TCP Offload Engine (TOE)
■ iSCSI boot
Expansion slots Five PCIe slots (on two riser cards)
■ Riser 1 (PCIe slots 1, 2, and 3): 
• One x16 PCIe Gen3 Slot, x24 extended connector (Cisco CNIC), 
full-Height, half-length 
• Two x8 PCIe Gen3 Slots Full Height, x16 connector, half-length 
■ Riser 2 (PCIe slots 4 and 5): 
• One x16 PCIe Gen3 Slot, Full Height, (225W GPU Ready & Cisco CNIC 
support), x24 connector, three-quarter length
• One x8 PCIe Gen3 Slot, half-height, x16 connector, half-length
Internal storage devices Drives are installed into front-panel drive bays that provide hot-pluggable 
access.
■ Large Form Factor (LFF) drives. The server can hold up to 12 3.5 inch 
SAS or SATA hard disk drives (HDDs). The server uses a 12-drive 
backplane with a SAS expander.
■ The server also contains one internal USB 2.0 port on the motherboard 
that you can use with a USB thumb drive for additional storage
Cisco Flexible Flash 
drives
The server supports one optional internal Cisco Flexible Flash drive (SD 
card).
■ The SD card is pre-loaded with four virtual drives. The four virtual 
drives contain, respectively, the Cisco Server Configuration Utility, the 
Cisco Host Upgrade Utility, the Cisco C-Series server drivers set, and a 
blank virtual drive on which you can install an OS or a hypervisor.
■ 4 GB is available for general use