Expansion Cards And Expansion Card Risers; Expansion Card Installation Guidelines - Dell EMC PowerEdge R540 Installation And Service Manual

Expansion cards and expansion card risers

Expansion card installation guidelines

The following table describes the supported expansion cards:
Table 46. Expansion card riser configurations
Expansion card riser
Full height right riser
Low profile right riser
Low profile left riser
Butterfly riser
Butterfly riser
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 the other expansion cards should be installed in the card
priority and slot priority order.
Table 47. Riser configurations: No RSR - 1 CPU
Card Type
LOM riser ; 2x1G BCM5720L (FXN)
LOM riser ; 2x10G BCM57416 (BASeT/SFP
+) (FXN)
PCIe SSD PCIe Card (Samsung)
Card,Network (Broadcom/INTEL/Mellanox/
Solarflare)
Card,Controller (EMULEX/QLOGIC/)
Intel OPA NIC (Intel OPA)
BOSS M.2 (SATA) (Dell)
Card,Network (Broadcom/INTEL)
PERC9.14G/PERC10 (FXN)
RAID - PERC9.14G/PERC10 (Internal) (Dell) Integrated Slot
Table 48. Riser configurations: No RSR - 2 CPU
Card type
LOM riser ; 2x1G BCM5720L (FXN)
LOM riser ; 2x10G BCM57416 (BASeT/SFP
+) (FXN)
PCIe slots on the riser
Slot 2
Slot 2
Slot 3
Slot 2
Slot 3
Slot Priority
1
1
5
5
5
5
5
6, 5
Integrated Slot
Slot priority
1
1
Processor connection Height
Processor 1 Full Height
Processor 1 Low Profile
Processor 2 Low Profile
Processor 1 Full Height
Processor 1 Low Profile
Length
Half Length
Half Length
Half Length
Half Length
Half Length
Maximum number of cards
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
Maximum number of cards
1
1
Installing and removing system components
Slot width
x16
x16
x16
x16
x8
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