Cisco UCSC-C240-M4SX compatibility

[olicata]

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	1.2 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	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	20

[TheBobkin · Accepted solution]

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&vsanrnc...

UCS-HD2T7K12G:

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

UCSC-MRAID12G

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

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&device...

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