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[SL00517564@TechMahindra.com]

We are planning to upgrade blade servers from b200 m4 to m6 series.

I am confused here, can we use m4 series ram,cpu,disk and vic card in m6 series?

[Nithin Eluvathingal]

AFAIK, its not possible. Moving this thread to DC community.

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[Steven Tardy · Accepted solution]

For some of the parts, for sure will NOT function.

For some of the parts, might work but none are officially supported.

• CPUs are 100% physically/mechanically/electrically/software-BIOS incompatible.
• M6 disks are slimmer as SSD height is shorter than a mechanical HDD which was common when M4s were designed.
• DIMMs might work, but M4 DIMMs are much slower than modern M6 DIMMs.
• The only VIC on the B200 M6 spec sheet is the 4th gen VIC 1440, whereas the B200 M4 spec sheet only shows up to the 3rd gen 1340/1380.

Unfortunately you are better off getting all new parts.
Can do hand-me-down hardware and keep the M4s running in a test/dev cluster.

[SL00517564@TechMahindra.com]

Thanks Steven for answer.