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PCIe full-height and full-high cards, which are plugged into the following servers slots:
– Power 720 and Power 740 (within the base system, five PCIe half-length slots
are supported.)
–Power750
–Power755
–Power760
–Power770
–Power780
–Power795
– PCIe slots of external I/O drawers, such as FC 5802 and FC 5877
Low-profile PCIe adapter cards are supported only in low-profile PCIe slots, and full-height
and full-high cards are supported only in full-high slots.
Figure 2-11 lists the PCIe adapter form factors.
Figure 2-11 PCIe adapter form factors
Many of the full-height card features are also available in low-profile format. For example, the
PCIe RAID and SSD SAS Adapter 3 Gb is available as a low-profile adapter or as a full-height
adapter, each one having a different feature code. As expected, they have equivalent
functional characteristics.
Table 2-12 is a list of low-profile adapter cards and their equivalents in full height.
Table 2-12 Equivalent adapter cards
Low profile Adapter description Full height
Feature
code
CCIN Feature
code
CCIN
2053 57CD PCIe RAID and SSD SAS Adapter 3 Gb 2054 or
2055
57CD
5269 5269 PCIe POWER GXT145 Graphics Accelerator 5748 5748
5270 2B3B 10 Gb FCoE PCIe Dual Port adapter 5708 2B3B
5271 5271 4-Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX PCI-Express adapter 5717 5271
Low Profile PCIe Slots
Power 710 / 730
Power 720 / 740
- PCIe riser card
Low Profile Full Height Full High
Full High PCIe Slots
Power 720 / 740 / 750 / 760 / 770 / 780 / 795
12X PCIe I/O Drawer
- FC 5802 / FC 5877 for 19-inch rack
- FC 5803 / FC 5873 for 24-inch rack