Pcie Expansion; Table 19. Pcie Expansion Slots; Table 20. Optional Add-In Pcie Expansion Cards - Dell PowerEdge R730 Technical Manual

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Local or remote reconfiguration of any NIC, physical or virtual
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PXE boot enabled on all LOM and NDCs for ease of use
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Boot from SAN (iSCSI, FCoE) configuration for networking devices through the Lifecycle
Controller GUI

PCIe expansion

For information on card installation, requirements, and slot priorities, see the
R730xd Owner's Manual
PCIe slots
The R730 and R730xd provide greatly expanded PCIe slot capability over their predecessor servers.
This is made possible by the 40 PCIe lanes available from each processor in the system. Two
processors are required in the system to enable all PCIe slots. The R730 and R730xd have been
designed to be PCIe 3.0 compliant in order to take full advantage of the processor capabilities. Table
19 details the R730 and R730xd PCIe slots.
System R730
1
Slots
7
Slot types
One x16 full-length, full-height
Three x8 full-length, full-height
Three x8 half-length, half-height
1
In a single-processor configuration, slots 1–4 are not usable.
PCIe expansion cards
The R730 and R730xd support a variety of PCIe expansion cards. Table 20 lists the supported add-in
NICs and HBAs for the R730 and R730xd.
Type Adapter
Broadcom
Broadcom 5720 dual-port 1Gb NIC
QLogic
Intel Ethernet I350 dual-port 1Gb server adapter
NIC
Intel Ethernet I350 quad-port 1Gb server adapter
Intel Ethernet X540 dual-port 10GBASE-T server adapter
Emulex
Mellanox
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Table 19. PCIe expansion slots
Table 20. Optional add-in PCIe expansion cards
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5719 quad-port 1Gb NIC
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57810 dual-port 10Gb BASE-T network adapter
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OCe14102-N1-D dual-port SFP+ 2 x 10Gb NIC
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ConnectX -3 dual-port 10Gb Direct Attach/SFP+ server network adapter
PowerEdge R730 and
R730xd
6
Two x16 full-length, full-height
One x8 full-length, full-height
Three x8 half-length, half-height