Cisco UCS C260 M2
High-Performance
Rack-Mount Server
Spec Sheet
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OVERVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
DETAILED VIEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Chassis Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Chassis Rear View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
BASE SERVER STANDARD CAPABILITIES and FEATURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
CONFIGURING the SERVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
STEP 1 VERIFY BASE SKU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
STEP 2 CHOOSE CPU(S) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
STEP 3 CHOOSE MEMORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
STEP 4 CHOOSE HARD DISK DRIVES or SOLID STATE DRIVES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
STEP 5 CHOOSE MODULAR DRIVE BAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
STEP 6 CHOOSE RAID CONFIGURATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
STEP 7 CHOOSE PCIe OPTION CARD(S) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
STEP 8 CHOOSE SECURE DIGITAL (SD) CARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
STEP 9 CHOOSE POWER SUPPLIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
STEP 10 SELECT AC POWER CORD(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
STEP 11 ORDER TOOL-LESS SLIDE RAIL KIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
STEP 12 ORDER OPTIONAL CABLE MANAGEMENT ARM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
STEP 13 ORDER OPTIONAL USB BOOT DRIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
STEP 14 ORDER OPTIONAL NETWORK CARD ACCESSORIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
STEP 15 ORDER A TRUSTED PLATFORM MODULE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
STEP 16 CHOOSE OPERATING SYSTEM AND VALUE-ADDED SOFTWARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
STEP 17 CHOOSE OPERATING SYSTEM MEDIA KIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
STEP 18 CHOOSE SERVICE and SUPPORT LEVEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
OPTIONAL STEP - ORDER RACK(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
OPTIONAL STEP - ORDER PDU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
CHASSIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
CPUs and DIMMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Physical Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Memory Population Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Recommended Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
RACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
PDUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
KVM CABLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Dimensions and Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Power Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Environmental Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Compliance Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
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OVERVIEW
Front View
Rear View
OVERVIEW
The Cisco® UCS C260 M2 High-Performance Rack Server is a high-density, two-socket, two-rack-unit (2RU)
rack server designed for compute, I/O, storage and memory-intensive standalone applications.
The UCS C260 M2 server (Figure 1) extends the capabilities of the Cisco Unified Computing System™, using
Intel's latest Xeon E7-2800 Series multi-core processors to deliver increased performance and efficiency.
Figure 1 Cisco UCS C260 M2 High-Density Rack Server
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DETAILED VIEWS
DETAILED VIEWS
Chassis Front View
Figure 2 shows the Cisco UCS C260 M2 General-Purpose Rack Server.
Figure 2 Chassis Front View
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1 Modular drive bay 1 8 System status LED
2 Operator panel 9 Fan status LED
3 Modular drive bay 2 10 Temperature status LED
4 Hard drive activity LED 11 Power supply status LED
5 Hard drive fault LED 12 Network link activity LED
6 Power button/LED 13 Asset tag (serial number)
7 Identification button/LED 14 KVM connector (used with KVM cable that
provides two USB, one VGA, and one serial
connector
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For more information regarding the KVM cable connection, see KVM CABLE on page 51.
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Chassis Rear View
Figure 3 shows the external features of the rear panel.
Figure 3 Chassis Rear View
DETAILED VIEWS
1 Horizontal PCIe slot
9 Reset button
(PCIe slot #1, standard-profile, half-length, x16)
2 Power supply #1 10 VGA video connector
3 RS232 serial connector 11 10-Gigabit SFP+ LOM ports (two ports,
supported with optional card in
designated PCIe slot 4)
4 Five PCIe slots on motherboard
(4 low-profile, half-length, x8 slots and 1
low-profile, half-length, x4 slot)
12 RAID controller cards
(up to two, supported in designated PCIe
slots 3 and 5)
PCIe slot numbering is 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (left to right)
5 Horizontal PCIe slot
(PCIe slot #7, standard-profile, half-length, x16)
13 1-Gigabit Base-T LOM ports
(two RJ-45 ports)
6 Power supply #2 14 Tw o U S B 2 . 0 p o r t s
7 10/100 dedicated management Ethernet ports
15 Rear Identification button/LED
(two RJ-45 ports)
8 Tw o U S B 2 .0 p o rt s — —
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BASE SERVER STANDARD CAPABILITIES and FEATURES
NOTE: At this time, dual Cisco FlexFlash cards are not
supported. Your Cisco FlexFlash card must be in secure
digital (SD) card slot 2 on the I/O riser card.
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
Table 1 Capabilities and Features
Capability/Feature Description
Chassis Two rack unit (2RU) chassis
CPU Two Intel® Xeon® E7-2800 series processors
Chipset Intel® 7500 (Boxboro) chipset
Memory Sixteen slots for memory riser boards. The memory riser boards come in two
CONFIGURING the SERVER on page 8.
choices:
■ Standard Intel chipset memory riser boards: each of these 16 risers can
hold two DIMMs. This provides a possible total of up to 32 DIMMs and 512
GB of industry-standard DDR3 memory.
■ Optional memory riser boards containing a memory-expansion ASIC:
each of the 16 risers can hold 4 DIMMs. This provides a possible total of
up to 64 DIMMs and 1024 GB of industry-standard DDR3 memory.
Cisco FlexFlash drives The server includes one internal Cisco FlexFlash drive, which is included on
the I/O riser card.
This drive is pre-loaded with four virtual drives (implemented as flash
memory). 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 Hypervisor. These virtual drives are booted through
the server’s F6 boot menu.
USB Flash drive An optional 4GB USB drive can be used as a bootable drive
Expansion slots There are seven PCIe expansion slots:
■ Two standard-profile, half-length, x16 horizontal slots on riser cards
■ Four low-profile, half-length, x8 slots on motherboard
■ One low-profile, half-length, x4 slot (x8-length connector) on
motherboard
■ All cards are half-length due to internal clearance.
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Table 1 Capabilities and Features (continued)
Capability/Feature Description
Storage controller Factory-configured RAID support options:
■ RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, or 60 support for up to 16 SAS or SATA drives, with
the optional LSI MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i RAID controller (up to two).
There are also two mounting points inside the chassis for the optional LSI
RAID battery backup units that can be used with the controller cards.
Internal storage devices Drives are installed into configurable (one or two) drive bay modules that
provide hot-pluggable front-panel access.
Each drive bay module can hold up to eight 2.5in x 0.55 in (63.5 mm x 14mm)
SAS3 or SATA4 hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid state drives (SSDs), for a total
of 16 drives.
UCS Storage Accelerator are also available. These PCIe flash storage devices
provide independent high-speed storage.
Video The server CIMC chip includes a Matrox G200 core. The first 8 MB of memory
are allocated to the video core.
Interfaces ■ Rear panel
• Two 10/100 dedicated management Ethernet ports
• Two 1-Gigabit Base-T Ethernet ports (10/100/1000 Mbps capable)
• Two 10-Gigabit SFP+ Ethernet ports (on optional modular card)
• One RS232 serial connector (on I/O riser card)
• One 15-pin VGA connector (on I/O riser card)
• Four USB 2.0 connectors
■ Front panel
• One KVM console connector. When used with the provided KVM cable,
provides two USB, one VGA, and one serial connector.
WoL The 1-Gigabit Base-T LOM ports support Wake on LAN.
Power subsystem Two 1200 W power supplies
Fans Chassis:
■ Six fan modules, hot-swappable, redundant
Power supply:
■ Each power supply is equipped with a fan.
Baseboard management Pilot II BMC, running Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC)
firmware.
Depending on your CIMC settings, the CIMC can be accessed through the
10/100 dedicated management ports, the 1-Gigabit LOM ports, the optional
10-Gigabit SFP+ ports, or a Cisco 1225 virtual interface card.
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CONFIGURING the SERVER
CONFIGURING the SER VER
Follow these steps to configure the Cisco UCS C260 M2 General-Purpose Rack Server:
■ STEP 1 VERIFY BASE SKU, page 9
■ STEP 2 CHOOSE CPU(S), page 10
■ STEP 3 CHOOSE MEMORY, page 11
■ STEP 4 CHOOSE HARD DISK DRIVES or SOLID STATE DRIVES, page 14
■ STEP 5 CHOOSE MODULAR DRIVE BAYS, page 16s
■ STEP 6 CHOOSE RAID CONFIGURATION, page 18
■ STEP 7 CHOOSE PCIe OPTION CARD(S), page 20
■ STEP 8 CHOOSE SECURE DIGITAL (SD) CARD, page 24
■ STEP 9 CHOOSE POWER SUPPLIES, page 25
■ STEP 10 SELECT AC POWER CORD(s), page 26
■ STEP 11 ORDER TOOL-LESS SLIDE RAIL KIT, page 29
■ STEP 12 ORDER OPTIONAL CABLE MANAGEMENT ARM, page 29
■ STEP 13 ORDER OPTIONAL USB BOOT DRIVE, page 30
■ STEP 14 ORDER OPTIONAL NETWORK CARD ACCESSORIES, page 31
■ STEP 15 ORDER A TRUSTED PLATFORM MODULE, page 34
■ STEP 16 CHOOSE OPERATING SYSTEM AND VALUE-ADDED SOFTWARE, page 35
■ STEP 17 CHOOSE OPERATING SYSTEM MEDIA KIT, page 38
■ STEP 18 CHOOSE SERVICE and SUPPORT LEVEL, page 39
■ OPTIONAL STEP - ORDER RACK(s) on page 43
■ OPTIONAL STEP - ORDER PDU on page 44
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STEP 1 VERIFY BASE SKU
Verify the product ID (PID) of the base server as shown in Table 2.
Table 2 PID of the Base C260 M2 Rack Server
Product ID (PID) Description
C260-BASE-2646 UCS C260 M2 Rack Server (w/o CPU, MRB, PSU)
The C260-BASE-2646 base server:
■ Does not include CPUs, memory riser boards, hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state Drives
(SSDs), or plug-in PCIe cards.
NOTE: Use the steps on the following pages to configure the server with
the components that you want to include.
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STEP 2 CHOOSE CPU(S)
The standard CPU features are:
■ Intel Xeon E7-2800 (Westmere EX) series CPUs
■ Intel 7500 Boxboro chipset
■ Cache size of 18, 24, or 30 MB
Choose CPUs
The available CPUs are listed in Table 3.
Table 3 Available CPUs: Intel Xeon Westmere E7-28xx/8867L Family
Product ID (PID)
Intel
Number
Clock
Freq
(GHz)
Power
(W)
Cache
Size (MB)
Cores QPI
Highest DDR3
DIMM Clock
Support (MHz)
UCS-CPU-E72870 E7-2870 2.40 130 30 10 6.40 1333
UCS-CPU-E72860 E7-2860 2.26 130 24 10 6.40 1333
UCS-CPU-E78867L E7-8867L 2.13 105 30 10 6.40 1333
UCS-CPU-E72850 E7-2850 2.00 130 24 10 6.40 1333
UCS-CPU-E72830 E7-2830 2.13 105 24 8 6.40 1333
UCS-CPU-E72803 E7-2803 1.73 105 18 6 4.80 1333
Approved Configurations
(1) Two-CPU Configuration (this is the mandatory configuration):
■ Choose two identical CPUs from Table 3.
Caveats
■ You must select two identical processors.
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STEP 3 CHOOSE MEMORY
The standard memory features are:
■ Plug-In Memory Riser Boards
—Two types
• 2-DIMM riser board
• 4-DIMM extended memory riser board
— Riser boards plug vertically into the motherboard
— Four or eight riser boards per CPU (total maximum of sixteen per system)
■ DIMMs
— Clock speed: 1333 MHz
— Ranks per DIMM: 1, 2, or 4
— Operational voltage: 1.35 V
—Registered
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■ Each CPU controls eight Millbrook-2 DDR3 channels. There is one memory riser board for
each DDR3 channel. Memory is organized as paired-DIMM memory channels.
Choose Riser Boards
You may choose eight or sixteen riser boards. If you choose eight, four will be installed per CPU.
If you choose sixteen, eight will be installed per CPU.
Table 4 Available Riser Boards
Product ID (PID) PID Description DIMMs per Riser
Riser Board Options
C260-MRBD-002 Low Cost 2-Socket Memory Riser 2
C260-MRBD-004 Extended 4-Socket Memory Riser 4
Approved Configurations
(1) Eight Two-Socket Risers
■ 16 DIMMs capacity total
(2) Sixteen Two-Socket Risers
■ 32 DIMMs capacity total
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(3) Eight Four-Socket Risers
■ 32 DIMMs capacity total
(4) Sixteen Four-Socket Risers
■ 64 DIMMs capacity total
Caveats
■ Each CPU controls eight Millbrook-2 DDR3 channels. Memory risers must be installed in pairs
on paired DDR3 channels. See
■ You cannot mix two- and four-socket risers in a C260 M2 system. You must choose either all
two-socket risers or all four-socket risers.
■ You should order enough risers with enough sockets to accommodate your maximum
forseeable memory needs.
■ The minimum riser configuration is one pair of risers for each CPU. Each riser for a CPU must
contain an equal number of matched DIMMs. Each CPU can boot and run from a single
matched pair of risers.
CPUs and DIMMs on page 46 for details.
Choose DIMMs
DIMMs are orderable as kits, with two DIMMs per kit. Choose the desired number of DIMMs. The
available memory DIMMs are listed in
Table 5.
Table 5 Available DDR3 DIMM Kits
Product ID (PID) PID Description Voltage
DIMM Options
UCS-MR-2X041RX-C 8GB DDR3-1333MHz RDIMM/PC3-10600/2x4GB Kit 1.35 1
UCS-MR-2X082RX-C 16GB DDR3-1333MHz RDIMM/PC3-10600/2x8GB Kit 1.35 2
UCS-MR-2X164RX-D 32GB DIMM Kit (2x16GB) 1.35 4
Approved Configurations
(1) Two-Socket Risers
■ Each two-socket riser can accommodate two DIMMs.
Ranks/
DIMM
— If you ordered eight two-socket risers, you can order a minimum of two DIMM kits
(four DIMMs) and a maximum of eight DIMM kits (16 DIMMs).
— If you ordered sixteen two-socket risers, you can order a minimum of two DIMM kits
(four DIMMs) and a maximum of sixteen DIMM kits (32 DIMMs).
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(2) Four-Socket Risers
■ Each four-socket riser can accommodate four DIMMs.
— If you ordered eight four-socket risers, you can order a minimum of two DIMM kits
(four DIMMs) and a maximum of sixteen DIMM kits (32 DIMMs).
— If you ordered sixteen four -socket risers, you can order a minimum of two DIMM kits
(four DIMMs) and a maximum of thirty-two DIMM kits (64 DIMMs).
Caveats
■ Matched pairs of risers on paired DDR3 channels must have identical DIMM configurations.
For example, the DIMM configurations must be identical on risers in the A0:A1 paired DIMM
channels; however, the A0:A1 DIMM configuration does not have to be identical with the
B0:B1 paired DIMM channels configuration.
For more information regarding memory, see CPUs and DIMMs on page 46.
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STEP 4 CHOOSE HARD DISK DRIVES or SOLID STATE DRIVES
The standard disk drive features are:
■ 2.5-inch small form factor
■ Hot-pluggable
■ Sled-mounted
Choose Drives
The available drives are listed in Table 6.
Table 6 Available Hot-Pluggable Sled-Mounted HDDs and SSDs
Product ID (PID) PID Description
Drive
Type
Capacity
HDDs
A03-D146GC2 146 GB SAS 15K RPM SFF HDD SAS 146 GB
A03-D300GA2 300 GB 6 Gb SAS 10K RPM SFF HDD SAS 300 GB
A03-D500GC3 500 GB 6 Gb SATA 7.2K RPM SFF SATA 500 GB
A03-D600GA2 600 GB 6 Gb SAS 10K RPM SFF HDD SAS 600 GB
UCS-HDD900GI2F106 900 GB 6Gb SAS 10K RPM SFF HDD SAS 900 GB
A03-D1TBSATA 1 TB SATA 7.2K RPM SFF HDD SATA 1 TB
SSDs
UCS-SD100G0KA2-E 100 GB Std 15mm Z SATA SSD SATA 100 GB
UCS-SD200G0KA2-E 200 GB Std Height 15mm SATA SSD SATA 200 GB
UCS-SD300G0KA2-E 300 GB Std Height 15mm SATA SSD SATA 300 GB
Approved Configurations
(1) One Drive Bay
■ If you select one drive bay (see STEP 5 CHOOSE MODULAR DRIVE BA YS, page 16), you may
select up to eight drives. You can mix SAS and SATA drives.
(1) Two Drive Bay
■ If you select two drive bays (see STEP 5 CHOOSE MODULAR DRIVE BAYS, p age 16), you may
select up to sixteen drives. You can mix SAS and SATA drives.
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Caveats
■ You can mix hard drives and SSDs in the same server. However, You cannot configure a logical
volume (virtual drive) that contains a mix of hard drives and SSDs. That is, when you create
a logical volume, it must contain all hard drives or all SSDs.
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STEP 5 CHOOSE MODULAR DRIVE BAYS
The C260 M2 server accommodates two drive bays, with each bay holding up to eight drives. You
should choose the number of drive bays based on the number of drives you selected in
CHOOSE HARD DISK DRIVES or SOLID STATE DRIVES, page 14.
The modular drive bays each come with a backplane and transition card installed. The transition
card connects the drive bay backplane to the motherboard. There are two types of transition
cards:
— Nonexpander (default): Two internal cables from the transition card to a plug-in
RAID controller card are required to control eight drives. One of the connectors
allows control of drives 1 through 4 on the backplane. The other connector allows
control of drives 5 through 8 on the backplane.
— Expander (optional): One internal cable from the transition card to a plug-in RAID
controller card is required to control eight drives. This one connector allows control
of drives 1 through 8 on the backplane
Choose Drive Bays
STEP 4
Choose one or two of the drive bays listed in Table 7.
Table 7 Available Drive Bays
Product ID (PID) PID Description
Drive Bay Options
UCSC-DBKP-08D 8 Drive Backplane For C-Series
UCSC-DBKP-08E 8 Drive Backplane W/ Expander For C-Series
Approved Configurations
(1) One Standard Drive Bay with Nonexpander Transition Card
■ This option accommodate a maximum of eight drives. All eight drives can be controlled with
two cables connected from the transition card to a single RAID controller.
(2) Two Standard Drive Bays with Nonexpander Transition Cards
■ This option accommodates a maximum of sixteen drives. Two RAID controllers are required
to control all sixteen drives. Two cables must be connected to each RAID controller from
each transition card.
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(3) Two Standard Drive Bays with Expander Transition Cards
■ This option accommodates a maximum of sixteen drives. One RAID controller is required to
control all sixteen drives. One cable must be connected to the RAID controller from each
transition card.
NOTE: With this configuration, two RAID controllers can also be installed, with one
cable from each transition card to each RAID controller.
Caveats
■ You cannot mix drive bay types. You must order either one or two identical drive bay types
listed in
Table 7 on page 16.
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