Dell EMC VxRail P470 - Expansion Cards and Expansion Card Riser; Expansion Card Installation Guidelines

Figure 30. Installing a cooling fan
1 cooling fan assembly 2 cooling fan connector (6)
3 fan release tab (6) 4 cooling fan (6)
5 cooling fan connector on the system board (6)
Next steps
Follow the procedure listed in the After working inside your appliance section.
Expansion cards and expansion card riser
An expansion card in the appliance is an add-on card that can be inserted into an expansion slot on the system board or riser card to add
enhanced functionality to the appliance through the expansion bus.
NOTE
: A System Event Log (SEL) event is logged if an expansion card riser is unsupported or missing. It does not prevent your
appliance from turning on and no BIOS POST message or F1/F2 pause is displayed.
Expansion card installation guidelines
Your appliance supports PCI Express Generation 3 expansion cards.
Table 28. Guidelines for
appliance supporting three PCIe expansion cards
Riser PCIe Slot Processor Connection Height Length Link Width Slot Width
1 1 Processor 2 Low Profile Half Length x8 x16
1 2 Processor 2 Low Profile Half Length x8 x16
1 3 Processor 2 Low Profile Half Length x8 x16
2 4 Processor 2 Full Height Full Length x16 x16
2 5 Processor 1 Full Height Full Length x8 x16
72 Installing and removing components