EXPIRED UK/EU - C240 M5 26sff - 40gbe

[Cruzader]

if you get a deal on rails let me know,

When they made me a listing for 8sets the global shipping dropped from 312£ to 68£, so a "slight diffrence" i suppose.
(8 listed for 160 same as single pcs, offered 130 ex.vat. and accepted. so 314$ total with shipping/VAT. fairly decent price for being rails in general)

If you want to start really cheap: have a pair of 5118 and a pair of 5120 they came originally with for sale… so working pull from C220 M5

The 5120 does look tempting as a start actualy, 30$ and DDR4-2400 that i already got 1tb unused of instead of the 2666 of 6148 that id need to buy.

also noticed they added 4 more units to listing (3 available atm).

 

[michel333]

Didcyo

1. Updates are available and well maintained, but you need to have a Cisco account. Should be free, no need for a purchased license.
2. Cisco tried to push their „flexpod“ (Cisco servers and switches and NetApp FAS/AFF for storage) 3-5 years ago into the Small and medium business here in Europe, aggressive discounts to get market shares from Dell and HPE. Now they are ready to retire…
3. They come with a (very nice) IPMI for free
4. Replacement parts hit the market as of 2.
5. You can install 3rd party parts, but if so they do not play nice with the CIMC (that’s Ciscos name for their BMC/IPMI). But they work in general and do not spin up fans to crazy like some Dells do.
6. you can throw in 3rd party DIMM but need to make an „allow 3rd party“ setting in Bios before.
7. Manufactured by/for Cisco. OP did not mention they are build by Dell, he just says thei are kind of equivalent regarding specs and intended use to a R740. That’s true indeed.

HTH

Did you bought some?

 

[john389]

1. Updates are available and well maintained, but you need to have a Cisco account. Should be free, no need for a purchased license.
2. Cisco tried to push their „flexpod“ (Cisco servers and switches and NetApp FAS/AFF for storage) 3-5 years ago into the Small and medium business here in Europe, aggressive discounts to get market shares from Dell and HPE. Now they are ready to retire…
3. They come with a (very nice) IPMI for free
4. Replacement parts hit the market as of 2.
5. You can install 3rd party parts, but if so they do not play nice with the CIMC (that’s Ciscos name for their BMC/IPMI). But they work in general and do not spin up fans to crazy like some Dells do.
6. you can throw in 3rd party DIMM but need to make an „allow 3rd party“ setting in Bios before.
7. Manufactured by/for Cisco. OP did not mention they are build by Dell, he just says thei are kind of equivalent regarding specs and intended use to a R740. That’s true indeed.

HTH

Thank you !!!

 

[mrpasc]

Didcyo
Did you bought some?

No, I owne the older M4 and one M5 C220. Got them from the company I work for after we ended our Flexpod journey…

 

[ecosse]

Not sure if ive seen full front scalable units this low before, but its Europe and cisco so almost no demand means low price tag

- Cisco C240 M5 (r740xd equivalent)
- 24sff front + 2sff rear
- only 1 heatsink + only 1 pcie cage
- VIC 1387 mlom 2x40gbe (esxi8 supported)
- sas3 card included
- dual 1080w psus

Cisco UCS C240 M5, CTO 1xHeatsink, NO Ram, 24x SFF, with Raid with MLOM

Asking is 150£/ea (125£ ex vat), my offer was accepted for 4pcs at 90£/ea ("ex.vat. export" as comment)
Expecting to see alot more of these coming, several large sellers with the exact same config getting listed about same time (but rest starting closer to 800-1000/ea).

Hi - Any LFF you think will come on the market? Thanks

 

[ano]

Kids, don’t try that at home with any M5.
Might be doable for a weightless SATA SSD but will definitely destroy your backplane if done with a heavy SAS (be it HDD or SSD). Been there, done that…

was of course thinking weightless sata

 

[mrpasc]

Hi - Any LFF you think will come on the market? Thanks

The LFFs were seldom sold, at least in Europe so personally I would not expect them in batches..

 

[Cruzader]

My general impression is that nobody uses 2U1N LFF at scale, that its only SMB market really buying them.

When its LFF hardware liquidated in quantity its the deep 1U cloudstuff with 8-16x LFF (+ typicaly 4SFF) or a rare batch of supermicros.

 

[ecosse]

Thanks both - to be honest I'd be buying one because they are there rather than having a purpose for one.

 

[gb00s]

My first candidate is xeon 6148, they are used in so many specs that their price looks to have somewhat tanked.
20core/40thread and 80$ area.

6132s are thrown out in US for 20US$ if you buy 5+ atm if you look for cheap alternatives.

 

[BeTeP]

You can’t flash those Cisco 12G RAID cards as they are SAS3108 based, similar to Dell PERC H730.

SAS3108 can be flashed to the IT mode but it is irrelevant to this deal because Cisco M5 modular controllers do not use SAS3108

 

[john389]

SAS3108 can be flashed to the IT mode but it is irrelevant to this deal because Cisco M5 modular controllers do not use SAS3108

Since I am thinking of getting one, could you please tell me what it does use?

 

[michel333]

I bought one also. Can somebody confirm that this has a sas adapter for 24 sas drives? And also the mlom network card 40gbe installed? It seems that he has also two 10gbe LOM

 

[Cruzader]

I bought one also. Can somebody confirm that this has a sas adapter for 24 sas drives? And also the mlom network card 40gbe installed? It seems that he has also two 10gbe LOM

Listing states it has the sas hba in it.

Same for the 40gbe, its mentioned in listing and you see it in picture.

 

[BeTeP]

There are 2 slightly different C240M5 24SFF configs:
UCSC-C240-M5SX comes with UCSC-RAID-M5HD (SAS3508+exp) supports 24 SAS bays in the front
UCSC-C240-M5SN comes with UCSC-RAID-M5 (SAS3516) supports 16 SAS bays in the front

 

[Cruzader]

M5 card


M5hd card


Picture in listing shows a connector used behind/below blue tab, that should exclude the non-hd since no rear ports there.



The spec sheet i got show only UCSC-RAID-M5HD for this model as FBWC, and we see the FBWC for it in pic.

 

[michel333]

M5 card
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M5hd card
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Picture in listing shows a connector used behind/below blue tab, that should exclude the non-hd since no rear ports there.
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The spec sheet i got show only UCSC-RAID-M5HD for this model as FBWC, and we see the FBWC for it in pic.
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Good! Thanks

 

[michel333]

It sold! The seller had 15 units... Maybe he will have more for selling?

 

[mrpasc]

There is a nice feature on eBay: „contact seller“.
You might get much more and better information about expected/upcoming stock from the seller than from us…

 

[michel333]

There is a nice feature on eBay: „contact seller“.
You might get much more and better information about expected/upcoming stock from the seller than from us…

Ok, thanks