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Technical specifications

Cisco UCS S3260 — Full Technical Specifications

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Full Specifications

Form Factor4U, 32-inch depth
Server NodesUp to 2 nodes: M5 (2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable) or M4 (Intel E5-2600 v4)
CPU (per node)Dual 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable (M5): 4214, 5218, 5220, 6238, 6240, 6262V, 4210R, 4214R, 5218R, 5220R, 6226R, 6230R; up to 48 cores per node
Memory (per node M5)7 slots DIMM per processor; 16/32/64/128 GB DDR4 RDIMM/LRDIMM; 1 slot Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory 256/512 GB
Drive BaysUp to 56 hot-swappable 3.5" NL-SAS HDDs (2-18 TB); or up to 28 SAS SSDs (800 GB/1.6 TB/3.2 TB); up to 4 addl. drives in expansion module
NVMeUp to 12.8 TB NVMe per M5 node
Storage ControllerRAID: Dual-chip LSI 3316 ROC, 4 GB cache per chip + Supercap; RAID 0/1/5/10/50/60 and JBOD. Pass-Through: Dual-chip LSI IOC 3316 with IT firmware
System I/OUp to 2 SIOC: integrated Cisco VIC 1300 (2x40 Gbps QSFP) or PCIe VIC 1455 (quad 10/25G), VIC 1495 (dual 40/100G) or third-party Eth/FC adapters
I/O ExpansionDual x8 PCIe half-height, half-width; support NVIDIA T4 16GB GPU
PSU4 hot-swappable, 3+1redundant, 1050W AC or DC, 80 PLUS Platinum
ManagementCisco IMC: IPMI 2.0, 10/100/1000 OOB, CLI and Web GUI (HTML5)
Boot Drives (per node)Up to 2: 2.5" SATA (240/480 GB) or 1.6 TB SSDs
Operating SystemsWindows Server 2019, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux, VMware vSphere
ProtocolsFibre Channel, FCoE, NFS, SMB, SMB Direct, iSCSI

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