Dell Powervault NX400 - Manual (Page 52)

Expansion Cards And Expansion-Card Risers
NOTE: A missing or an unsupported expansion-card riser logs an SEL event. It does not prevent your system from
powering on and no BIOS POST message or F1/F2 pause is displayed.
Expansion Card Installation Guidelines
Your system supports two PCI Express expansion cards.
The following PCI Express Generation 2 and 3 expansion cards are supported.
Table 2. Supported Expansion Cards
Riser PCIe Slot Generation Height Length Link
Width
Slot Width
1 1 2 Low Profile Half Length x4 x8
2 2 3 Standard Height Half Length x16 x16
NOTE: The expansion-card slots are not hot-swappable.
The following table provides guidelines for installing expansion cards to ensure proper cooling and mechanical fit. The
expansion cards with the highest priority should be installed first using the slot priority indicated. All other expansion
cards should be installed in card priority and slot priority order.
Table 3. Expansion-Card Installation Order
Card Priority Card Type Height Slot Priority Max Allowed Per
Slot
1 Integrated RAID Integrated Slot 1
2 RAID Standard Height Slot 2 (Riser 2) 1
3 Converged Network Adapters
(CNAs) Standard Height Slot 2 (Riser 2) 1
Low Profile Slot 1 (Riser 1) 1
4 10 Gb NICs Standard Height Slot 2 (Riser 2) 1
Low Profile Slot 1 (Riser 1) 1
5 FC8 HBA Standard Height Slot 2 (Riser 2) 1
Low Profile Slot 1 (Riser 1) 1
6 FC4 HBA Standard Height Slot 2 (Riser 2) 1
7 1 Gb NICs Standard Height Slot 2 (Riser 2) 1
Low Profile Slot 1 (Riser 1) 1
8 Non-RAID Standard Height Slot 2 (Riser 2) 1
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