PCIe5 slot description ...................................................................................................................... 112
Supported PCIe form factors. ......................................................................................................... 113
Installing expansion boards ............................................................................................................. 114
Installing a secondary riser cage .................................................................................................... 116
Installing a tertiary riser cage .......................................................................................................... 118
Installing an accelerator or GPU ..................................................................................................... 120
Installing a rear 2 SFF riser cage ................................................................................................... 124
Installing a rear 2LFF riser cage ..................................................................................................... 126
Installing primary and secondary risers ......................................................................................... 128
Installing tertiary risers ..................................................................................................................... 130
Security. ......................................................................................................................................................... 131
Installing the bezel ............................................................................................................................ 132
Installing the chassis intrusion detection switch ........................................................................... 132
Trusted Platform Module 2.0 guidelines ........................................................................................ 133
BitLocker recovery key/password retention guidelines ................................................... 134
Cabling .................................................................................................................. 135
Cabling guidelines ........................................................................................................................................ 135
Cabling diagrams .......................................................................................................................................... 136
8 SFF box 1 cabling .......................................................................................................................... 140
8 SFF box 2 cabling .......................................................................................................................... 147
8 SFF box 3 cabling .......................................................................................................................... 156
Mid 8 SFF cabling ............................................................................................................................. 162
Front 2 SFF cabling. ......................................................................................................................... 165
Rear 2 SFF cabling ........................................................................................................................... 171
LFF cabling ........................................................................................................................................ 178
Riser enablement cabling ................................................................................................................ 183
Power cabling .................................................................................................................................... 188
GPU cabling ...................................................................................................................................... 192
NS204i-u boot device cabling ......................................................................................................... 193
OCP bandwidth upgrade ................................................................................................................. 194
Systems Insight Display cabling ..................................................................................................... 196
I/O cabling. ......................................................................................................................................... 197
Front power switch cabling .............................................................................................................. 199
Serial port cabling ............................................................................................................................. 200
Configuration resources. ................................................................................ 201
Updating firmware or system ROM ............................................................................................................ 201
Configuring the server. ................................................................................................................................. 202
Configuring storage controllers ................................................................................................................... 203
Managing the NS204i Boot Device ............................................................................................................ 203
Deploying an OS ........................................................................................................................................... 203
Configuring security......................................................................................................................... 204
Optimizing the server ................................................................................................................................... 205
Server management ..................................................................................................................................... 205
Managing Linux-based high performance compute clusters .................................................................. 205
Troubleshooting .................................................................................................206
NMI functionality ............................................................................................................................................ 206
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