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  • 1.  Cisco UCSC-C240-M4SX compatibility

    Posted Nov 09, 2017 07:49 PM

    Hi, I can not find this sku inside the vsan compatibility, could someone tell me if it's compatible?

    regards

    UCSC-C240-M4SX

    UCS C240 M4 SFF 24 HD w/o CPU,mem,HD,PCIe,PS,railkt w/expndr

    1

    UCSC-PCI-1A-240M4

    Right PCIe Riser Board (Riser 1) (x8 + GPU) for C240 M4

    1

    UCSC-PCIE-CSC-02

    Cisco VIC 1225 Dual Port 10Gb SFP+ CNA

    1

    UCS-MR-1X161RV-A

    16GB DDR4-2400-MHz RDIMM/PC4-19200/single rank/x4/1.2v

    8

    UCSC-RAILB-M4

    Ball Bearing Rail Kit for C220 M4 and C240 M4 rack servers

    1

    UCSC-PCI-2-C240M4

    Left PCIe Riser Board (Riser 2) for C240 M4

    1

    UCSC-MLOM-CSC-02

    Cisco UCS VIC1227 VIC MLOM - Dual Port 10Gb SFP+

    1

    UCSC-PSU2V2-650W

    650W V2 AC Power Supply for 2U C-Series Servers

    2

    CAB-250V-10A-AR

    AC Power Cord - 250V, 10A - Argentina

    2

    UCS-HD12TB10K12G

    1. 1.2 TB 12G SAS 10K RPM SFF HDD

    2

    UCSC-PCIE-IRJ45

    Intel i350 Quad Port 1Gb Adapter

    1

    UCS-M4-V4-LBL

    Cisco M4 - v4 CPU asset tab ID label (Auto-Expand)

    1

    UCSC-HS-C240M4

    Heat sink for UCS C240 M4 rack servers

    2

    UCSC-MRAID12G

    Cisco 12G SAS Modular Raid Controller

    1

    C1UCS-OPT-OUT

    Cisco ONE Data Center Compute Opt Out Option

    1

    UCS-CPU-E52640E

    1. 2.40 GHz E5-2640 v4/90W 10C/25MB Cache/DDR4 2133MHz

    2

    CIMC-LATEST

    IMC SW (Recommended) latest release for C-Series Servers.

    1

    UCS-SD480G12S3-EP

    480GB 2.5 inch Ent. Performance 6GSATA SSD(3X endurance)

    2

    UCS-HD2T7K12G

    2 TB 12G SAS 7.2K RPM SFF HDD

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  • 2.  RE: Cisco UCSC-C240-M4SX compatibility
    Best Answer

    Posted Nov 09, 2017 09:52 PM

    Hello olicata,

    vSAN compatibility requires only certification of the cache-tier SSDs, capacity-tier HDDs/SSDs and the controller used for the disk-groups:

    All these 3 relevant components are certified for use (in all released versions of vSAN) in similar Ready-Nodes offered by Cisco:

    Here are the entries on the vSAN HCL for these:

    UCS-SD480G12S3-EP:

    https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=ssd&productid=40418&vsanrncomp=true&vcl=true

    UCS-HD2T7K12G:

    https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=hdd&productid=40183&vsanrncomp=true&vcl=true

    UCSC-MRAID12G

    https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=vsanio&productid=39770&vsanrncomp=true&vcl=true

    I can't find an identical ReadyNode matching for what you posted but has same drive models and controller as this Ready-Node (but in a C240 model instead of a C220):

    https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=vsan&productid=41604&deviceCategory=vsan&details=1&vsan_type=vsanreadynode&vsan_partner=146&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc

    One thing that I will point out that looks amiss there is that there are 20x HDDs but only 2x SSDs - the max capacity-tier per disk-group in vSAN is 7 so only a maximum of 14 of these HDDs could be used to make disk-groups unless another SSD was available (and this may not be possible to add due to slots without replacing a HDD).

    Hope this helps.

    Bob