The Cisco UCS C210 M2 Server is a general- purpose, 2-socket, 2 rack unit (RU) rack server that balances performance, density, and efficiency for storage-intensive workloads. The system is built for applications such as network file servers and appliances, storage servers, database servers, and content-delivery servers.

• Up to two Intel Xeon 5500 or 5600 Series multicore processors
• Up to 192GB of industry-standard double data rate (DDR3) main memory
• Up to 16 internal small form-factor (SFF), SAS, or SATA disk drives; up to 16 TB total
• RAID support:
  • An onboard SATA RAID 0/1 controller integrated on motherboard that can control up to four SATA drives (only),
  • LSI® 1064E 4-port controller mezzanine card (RAID levels 0, 1, or 1E) for up to 4 internal SAS or SATA drives with the factory default SAS Extender or the optional SAS Expander installed
  • LSI 6G MegaRAID SAS 9280-4i4e controller (RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, or 60 support) for up to 4 internal SAS or SATA drives (no mixing) with the factory default SAS Extender, plus external JBOD expansion
  • LSI 6G MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i controller (RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, or 60 support) for up to 8 internal SAS or SATA drives with the factory default SAS Extender, or up to 16 SAS or SATA drives with a SAS Expander installed
• Five full-height PCI Express (PCIe) slots: two full-height, full-length x8 PCIe card slots and three full-height, half-length x8 PCI card slots, all with x16 connectors