Cisco UCS C220 M6 Server Installation and Service Guide - Overview [Cisco UCS C220 M6 Rack Server] (2024)

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Drive bays 1 – 10 support SAS/SATA hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). As an option, drive bays 1-4 can contain up to 4 NVMe drives in any number up to 4. Drive bays 5 through 10 support only SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs.

NVMe drives are supported in a dual CPU server only.

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Unit identification button/LED

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Power button/power status LED

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KVM connector

(used with KVM cable that provides one DB-15 VGA, one DB-9 serial, and two USB 2.0 connectors)

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System LED cluster:

• Fan status LED

• System status LED

• Power supply status LED

• Network link activity LED

• Temperature status LED

For more information, see Front-Panel LEDs

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Note

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PCIe slots, three

This configuration accepts three card in riser slots 1, 2, and 3 as follows:

• Riser 1, which is controlled by CPU 1:

  • Supports one PCIe slot (slot 1)

  • Slot 1 is half-height, 3/4 length, x16

• Riser 2, which is controlled by CPU 1:

  • Supports one PCIe slot (slot 2)

  • Slot 2 is half-height, 3/4 length, x16

• Riser 3, which is controlled by CPU 2:

  • Supports one PCIe slot (slot 3)

  • Slot 3 is half-height, 3/4 length, x16

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Power supply units (PSUs), two which can be redundant when configured in 1+1 power mode.

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Modular LAN-on-motherboard (mLOM) card bay (x16 PCIe lane)

USB 3.0 ports (two)

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System identification button/LED

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USB 3.0 ports (two)

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Dual 1-Gb/10-Gb Ethernet ports (LAN1 and LAN2)

The dual LAN ports can support 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps, depending on the link partner capability.

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1-Gb Ethernet dedicated management port

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COM port (RJ-45 connector)

VGA video port (DB-15 connector)

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PCIe slots, two

This configuration accepts two cards in riser slots 1 and 2 as follows:

• Riser 1, which is controlled by CPU 1:

  • Plugs into riser 1 motherboard connector

  • Supports one full-height, 3/4 length, x16 PCIe card

• Riser 2, which is controlled by CPU 2:

  • Plugs into riser 3 motherboard connector

  • Supports one full-height, 3/4 length, x16 PCIe card

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Power supply units (PSUs), two which can be redundant when configured in 1+1 power mode.

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Modular LAN-on-motherboard (mLOM) card bay (x16 PCIe lane)

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Unit identification button/LED

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USB 3.0 ports (two)

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Dual 1-Gb/10-Gb Ethernet ports (LAN1 and LAN2)

The dual LAN ports can support 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps, depending on the link partner capability.

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1-Gb Ethernet dedicated management port

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COM port (RJ-45 connector)

VGA video port (DB-15 connector)

Chassis

One rack-unit (1RU) chassis

Central Processor

Up to two 3rd Generation Intel Xeon processors.

Memory

32 slots for registered DIMMs (RDIMMs), DDR4 DIMMs, 3DS DIMMs, and load-reduced DIMMs (LR DIMMs) up to 3200 MHz. Also supported is Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory Modules (PMEMs)

Multi-bit error protection

This server supports multi-bit error protection.

Video

The Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) provides video using the Matrox G200e video/graphics controller:

• Integrated 2D graphics core with hardware acceleration

• DDR3 memory interface supports up to 512 MB of addressable memory (8 MB is allocated by default to video memory)

• Supports display resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 16bpp @ 60Hz

• High-speed integrated 24-bit RAMDAC

• Single lane PCI-Express host interface running at Gen 2 speed

Network and management I/O

Rear panel:

• One 1-Gb Ethernet dedicated management port (RJ-45 connector)

• Two 1-Gb/10-Gb BASE-T Ethernet LAN ports (RJ-45 connectors)

  The dual LAN ports can support 10 Gbps, 1 Gbps, 100 Mbps, or 10 Mbps. The LAN ports autonegotiate to the correct link speed based on the link partner capability.

• One RS-232 serial port (RJ-45 connector)

• One VGA video connector port (DB-15 connector)

• Two USB 3.0 ports

Front panel:

• One front-panel keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) connector that is used with the KVM breakout cable. The breakout cable provides two USB 2.0, one VGA, and one DB-9 serial connector.

Modular LOM

One dedicated socket (x16 PCIe lane) that can be used to add an mLOM card for additional rear-panel connectivity. As an optional hardware configuration, the Cisco CNIC mLOM module supports two 100G QSFP+ ports or 4 25 Gbps Ethernet ports.

Power

Up to two of the following hot-swappable power supplies:

• 1050 W (AC)

• 1050 W (DC)

• 1600 W (AC)

• 2300 W (AC)

One power supply is mandatory; one more can be added for 1 + 1 redundancy.

ACPI

The advanced configuration and power interface (ACPI) 4.0 standard is supported.

Front Panel

The front panel provides status indications and control buttons

Cooling

Eight hot-swappable fan modules for front-to-rear cooling.

InfiniBand

In addition to Fibre Channel, Ethernet and other industry-standards, the PCI slots in this server support the InfiniBand architecture up HDR IB (200Gbps).

Expansion Slots

Three half-height riser slots

• Riser 1 (controlled by CPU 1): One x16 PCIe Gen4 Slot, (Cisco VIC), half-height, 3/4 length

• Riser 2 (controlled by CPU 1): One x16 PCIe Gen4 Slot, half-height, 3/4 length

• Riser 3 (controlled by CPU 2): One x16 PCIe Gen4 Slot, (Cisco VIC), half-height, 3/4 length

Two full-height riser slots

• Riser 1 (controlled by CPU 1): One x16 PCIe Gen4 Slot,, full-height, 3/4 length

• Riser 2 (controlled by CPU 2): One x16 PCIe Gen4 Slot, full-height, 3/4 length

Interfaces

Rear panel:

• One 1Gbase-T RJ-45 management port

• Two 10Gbase-T LOM ports

• One RS-232 serial port (RJ45 connector)

• One DB15 VGA connector

• Two USB 3.0 port connectors

• One flexible modular LAN on motherboard (mLOM) slot that can accommodate various interface cards

Front panel:

• One KVM console connector, which supplies the pins for a KVM break out cable that supports the following:

  • Two USB 2.0 connectors

  • One VGA DB15 video connector

  • One serial port (RS232) RJ45 connector

Integrated Management Processor

Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) running Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) firmware.

Depending on your CIMC settings, the CIMC can be accessed through the 1GE dedicated management port, the 1GE/10GE LOM ports, or a Cisco virtual interface card (VIC).

CIMC supports managing the entire server platform, as well providing management capabilities for various individual subsystems and components, such as PSUs, Cisco VIC, GPUs, MRAID and HBA storage controllers, and so on.

Storage Controllers

The SATA Interposer board, Cisco 12G SAS RAID Controller with 4GB FBWC, or Cisco 12G SAS HBA. Only one of these at a time can be used.

A Cisco 9500-8e 12G SAS HBA can be plugged into available PCIe risers for external JBOD attach. This HBA can be used at the same time as one of the other storage controllers.

• SATA Interposer board: AHCI support of up to eight SATA-only drives (slots 1-4 and 6-9 only)

• Cisco 12G RAID controller

  • RAID support (RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10) and SRAID0

  • Supports up to 10 front-loading SFF drives

• Cisco 12G SAS HBA

  • No RAID support

  • JBOD/Pass-through Mode support

  • Supports up to 10 SFF front-loading SAS/SATA drives

• Cisco 12G 9500-8e SAS HBA

  • No RAID support

  • Supports external JBOD attach (supports up to 1024 SAS/SATA devices or 32 NVMe devices)

  • Plugs into an appropriate PCIe riser slot (up to two supported)

For a detailed list of storage controller options, see Supported Storage Controllers and Cables.

Modular LAN over Motherboard (mLOM) slot

The dedicated mLOM slot on the motherboard can flexibly accommodate Cisco Virtual Interface Cards (VICs).

UCSM

Unified Computing System Manager (UCSM) runs in the Fabric Interconnect and automatically discovers and provisions some of the server components.