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Appendix E Upgrading to Cisco UCS S3260 System With S3260 M5 Server Nodes
Differences Between Cisco UCS C3160 and S3260 Systems
Differences Between Cisco UCS C3160 and S3260 Systems
Table E-1 lists the differences between Cisco UCS C3160 and Cisco UCS S3260 systems.
Note Migration of S3260 to C3160 is not supported. After you migrate a C3160 to a S3260, you cannot reverse
the migration back to C3160.
Table E-1 Differences Between Cisco UCS C3160 and Cisco UCS S3260 Systems
System
Cisco
IMC
Min.
UCS
Manage
r Min.
UCSM-
Managed or
Standalone Supported SIOC
Number of Server
Nodes Supported
Rear-Pane
l SSD
Drives
Supported
I/O
Expande
r Module
Support
Storage Controller Card
Support
C3160 with
M3 server
node
2.0(3) NA Standalone
only
UCSC-C3160-SIOC
Removable adapter card
One M3 server
node
(Intel Xeon
v2-based)
2 No One in server node:
• UCSC-C3X60-R1GB
• UCSC-C3X60-R4GB
• UCSC-C3X60-HBA
C3260 with
M3 server
nodes
2.0(7) 3.1(2) Standalone or
UCSM mode
UCSC-S3260-SIOC
Integrated VIC 1300
Series chip
One or two M3
server nodes
(Intel Xeon
v2-based)
4 No One in each server node:
• UCSC-C3X60-R1GB
• UCSC-C3X60-R4GB
• UCSC-C3X60-HBA
S3260 with
M4 server
nodes
2.0(13) 3.1(2) Standalone or
UCSM mode
UCSC-S3260-SIOC
Integrated VIC 1300
Series chip
One or two M4
server nodes
(Intel Xeon
v4-based)
4 Yes Rules for server node and I/O
expander:
• UCS-C3K-M4RAID
• UCS-S3260-DHBA
• If server node has
DHBA, then no
controller in I/O.
• If server node has
M4RAID, then I/O can
have M4RAID (not
DHBA).
• If server node has no
controller, I/O can have
DHBA or M4RAID.
S3260 with
M5 server
nodes
3.1(3) 3.2(3) Standalone or
UCSM mode
• UCSC-S3260-SIOC
Integrated VIC 1300
Series chip
• UCS-S3260-PCISIOC
Removable adapter
card
Note: This SIOC
requires Cisco IMC &
UCS Manager 4.0(1n)
or later.
One or two M5
server nodes
(Intel Xeon
Scalable Processor
Family v1-based)
4 Yes One in server node only (not
in I/O expander):
• UCS-S3260-DHBA
• UCS-S3260-DRAID