Cisco Systems A03D1TBSATA, UCS C220 M3 Approved Configurations No RAID controller plug-in card

CONFIGURING the SERVER

Approved Configurations

(1)No RAID controller plug-in card

■If you did not choose a plug-in RAID controller (for example, you are using embedded RAID or a mezzanine RAID controller), you can select up to two PCie option cards listed in Table 9.

(2)One RAID controller plug-in card

■If you selected a plug-in PCIe RAID controller, you can select only one of the optional PCIe cards listed in Table 9.

NOTE: If a plug-in RAID controller card is installed, any optional PCIe card you select will be installed in the full-height slot. RAID controllers are always installed in the half-height slot.

Caveats

■For 1-CPU systems:

—Only the full-height PCIe slot (slot 1) is supported

—Neither PCIe slot 2 nor the mezzanine card slot are supported

—Only a single VIC card (either the full-height Cisco UCS P81E or the Cisco VIC 1225 PCIe card) is supported and it must be installed in slot 1 (the full-height slot).

■For 2-CPU systems:

—Both PCIe slots and the mezzanine card slot are supported

—Only a single VIC card (either the full-height Cisco UCS P81E or the half-height Cisco VIC 1225 PCIe card) is supported and it must be installed in slot 1 (the full height slot).

■All PCIe cards will fit in either slot, except the Cisco UCS P81E Virtual Interface Card (VIC), which must be installed in the full-height slot (slot 1).

■Other considerations for the Cisco VIC 1225:

—Supports 10G SFP+ optical and copper twinax connections

—Requires that the server has CIMC firmware version 1.4(6) or later installed. There is a heartbeat LED on the top of the card that indicates when firmware is active.

—To use this card for UCS integration (Cisco UCS Manager mode) with Cisco UCS Manager 2.1(0) or later, the minimum card-firmware and uboot image level is 2.1(0.306).

■To help ensure that your operating system is compatible with the card you have selected, check the Hardware Compatibility List at this URL:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10477/prod_technical_reference_list.html

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