Getting to Know the Cisco UCS C240 M5SX Server
The components of the Cisco UCS C240 M5SX Server front and rear panels (see the illustration
inside the back cover of this document) are highlighted in Table 1.
Table 1: Components of the Cisco UCS C240 M5SX Server Front and Rear Panels
Front Panel
1
UCSC-C240-M5SX: Drive bays 1—24 support SAS/SATA drives
2
UCSC-C240-M5SX: Drive bays 1 and 2 support NVMe PCIe SSDs
3
Power button/power status LED
4
Unit identification button/LED
5
System status LED
6
Fan status LED
7
Temperature status LED
8
Power supply status LED
9
Network link activity LED
10
Pull-out asset tag
11
KVM connector (used with KVM cable that provides one DB-15 VGA,
one DB-9 serial, and two USB connectors)
Rear Panel
1
PCIe riser 1 (PCIe slot 1, 2, 3)
2
PCIe riser 2 (PCIe slots 4, 5, 6)
3
Rear 2.5-inch drive bays
4
Power supplies (two, redundant as 1+1)
5
Threaded holes for dual-hole grounding lug
6
Modular LAN-on-motherboard (mLOM) card slot (x16)
7
USB 3.0 ports (two)
8
Dual 1-Gb/10-Gb Ethernet ports (LAN1 and LAN2)
9
VGA video port (DB-15 connector)
10
1-Gb Ethernet dedicated management port
11
Serial port (RJ-45 connector)
12
Rear unit identification button/LED