Dell PowerEdge R730xd - Pcie Expansion; Table 19. Pcie Expansion Slots; Table 20. Optional Add-In Pcie Expansion Cards

36 PowerEdge R730 and R730xd Technical Guide
 Local or remote reconfiguration of any NIC, physical or virtual
 PXE boot enabled on all LOM and NDCs for ease of use
 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 PowerEdge R730 and
R730xd Owner’s Manual on Dell.com/Support/Manuals.
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.
Table 19. PCIe expansion slots
System
R730
R730xd
Slots
1
7
6
Slot types
One x16 full-length, full-height
Three x8 full-length, full-height
Three x8 half-length, half-height
Two x16 full-length, full-height
One 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.
Table 20. Optional add-in PCIe expansion cards
Type
Adapter
NIC
Broadcom
®
5719 quad-port 1Gb NIC
Broadcom 5720 dual-port 1Gb NIC
QLogic
®
57810 dual-port 10Gb BASE-T network adapter
Intel Ethernet I350 dual-port 1Gb server adapter
Intel Ethernet I350 quad-port 1Gb server adapter
Intel Ethernet X540 dual-port 10GBASE-T server adapter
Emulex
®
OCe14102-N1-D dual-port SFP+ 2 x 10Gb NIC
Mellanox
®
ConnectX
®
-3 dual-port 10Gb Direct Attach/SFP+ server network adapter