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Cisco UCS C24 Server Installation and Service Guide
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Chapter 1 Overview
PCIe I/O Five horizontal PCIe4 expansion slots on two risers.
See PCIe Slots, page 3-34 for specifications of the slots.
Storage Drives are installed into front-panel drive bays that provide hot-pluggable access.
There are two versions of the server front panel and backplane:
• Cisco UCS C24 (small form-factor (SFF) drives, with 24-drive backplane and
expander). Holds up to twenty-four 2.5-inch hard drives or solid state drives.
• Cisco UCS C24 (small form-factor (SFF) drives, with 16-drive backplane, no
expander). Holds up to sixteen 2.5-inch hard drives or solid state drives.
• Cisco UCS C24 (large form-factor (LFF) drives, with 12-drive backplane and
expander). Holds up to twelve 3.5-inch hard drives.
Internal USB
support The server has one internal USB 2.0 socket on the motherboard that you can use with
a USB thumb drive for additional storage.
The server can be ordered with an optional blank 8-GB Cisco USB Flash Drive
pre-installed in the internal USB port.
Cisco USB Flash
Drive
with pre-loaded
utilities
The server can be ordered with an optional 16-GB Cisco USB flash drive.
This drive is pre-loaded with Cisco C-series Server utilities. This drive contains four
virtual drives. The four virtual drives contain, respectively:
• Cisco Server Configuration Utility
• Cisco Host Upgrade Utility
• Cisco C-Series server drivers set
• A blank virtual drive on which you can install an OS or a hypervisor
See Overview of the Pre-Loaded 16-GB Cisco USB Flash Drive, page 3-41 for more
information about enabling and booting the virtual drives.
Disk
Management
(RAID)
For a list of RAID5 controller options and cables, see RAID Controller
Considerations, page C-1.
RAID Backup There are two mounting points inside the chassis that can be used for the SuperCap
power module that is used with LSI MegaRAID-CV card.
Video Matrox G200e video controller. Resolution up to 1920 x1200, 16bpp at 60 Hz. Up
to 256 MB of video memory.
1. DIMM = dual inline memory module
2. VGA = video graphics array
3. USB = universal serial bus
4. PCIe = peripheral component interconnect express
5. RAID = redundant array of independent disks
Table 1-1 Cisco UCS C24 Server Features (continued)