Dell EMC PowerEdge R540 - Expansion Cards and Expansion Card Risers; Expansion Card Installation Guidelines

Expansion cards and expansion card risers
Expansion card installation guidelines
The following table describes the supported expansion cards:
Table 46. Expansion card riser congurations
Expansion card riser PCIe slots on the riser Processor connection Height Length Slot width
Full height right riser Slot 2 Processor 1 Full Height Half Length x16
Low prole right riser Slot 2 Processor 1 Low Prole Half Length x16
Low prole left riser Slot 3 Processor 2 Low Prole Half Length x16
Buttery riser Slot 2 Processor 1 Full Height Half Length x16
Buttery riser Slot 3 Processor 1 Low Prole Half Length x8
NOTE: The expansion-card slots are not hot-swappable.
The following table provides guidelines for installing expansion cards to ensure proper cooling and mechanical t. The expansion cards with
the highest priority should be installed rst using the slot priority indicated. All the other expansion cards should be installed in the card
priority and slot priority order.
Table 47. Riser
congurations: No RSR - 1 CPU
Card Type Slot Priority Maximum number of cards
LOM riser ; 2x1G BCM5720L (FXN) 1 1
LOM riser ; 2x10G BCM57416 (BASeT/SFP
+) (FXN)
1 1
PCIe SSD PCIe Card (Samsung) 5 1
Card,Network (Broadcom/INTEL/Mellanox/
Solarare)
5 1
Card,Controller (EMULEX/QLOGIC/) 5 1
Intel OPA NIC (Intel OPA) 5 1
BOSS M.2 (SATA) (Dell) 5 1
Card,Network (Broadcom/INTEL) 6, 5 2
PERC9.14G/PERC10 (FXN) Integrated Slot 1
RAID - PERC9.14G/PERC10 (Internal) (Dell) Integrated Slot 1
Table 48. Riser congurations: No RSR - 2 CPU
Card type Slot priority Maximum number of cards
LOM riser ; 2x1G BCM5720L (FXN) 1 1
LOM riser ; 2x10G BCM57416 (BASeT/SFP
+) (FXN)
1 1
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