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Servicing PCIe Cards
This section describes how to service PCIe cards and PCIe Risers.
PCIe cards and PCIe risers are replaceable components that require you to power off the
server before servicing.
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For more information about replaceable components, see Illustrated Parts Breakdown and
Customer-Replaceable Units. For complete software and cabling information about your card,
refer to your PCIe card documentation. For a complete list of supported PCIe cards, see
Product Description.
Caution:
These procedures require that you handle components that are sensitive to
electrostatic discharge. This sensitivity can cause the components to fail. To avoid
damage, ensure that you follow antistatic practices as described in Electrostatic
Discharge Safety.
Caution:
Ensure that all power is removed from the server before removing or installing PCIe
cards. You must disconnect all power cables from the system before performing
these procedures.
PCIe Slot Locations
The server is designed to support both full height and low profile PCIe cards. Using PCIe
risers, the full height PCI slot configuration supports up to 4 full height and 2 half height PCIe
cards. The 9-slot PCIe half height configuration supports up to 9 half height PCIe cards. See
Back Panel Components for PCIe slot numbering and supported PCIe configurations.
• All card slots support Half Height, Half Length (HHHL) PCIe cards (Low profile short) at
PCIe Gen4 or Gen5.
• Four riser card slots support Full Height, Full Length (FHFL) PCIe cards at PCIe Gen5.
• All PCIe card slots are 75W capable slots. All of the PCIe slots comply with the PCI
Express 5.0 specification and can accommodate 75 Watt PCIe cards.
• All PCIe card slots support persistent power.
• All Add-in-Card (AIC) slots support Hot-Plug.
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• PCIe card slots 1 through 4 are nonfunctional in single-processor systems.
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Hot-Plug support is limited to Exadata storage node configurations only.
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Hot-Plug support is limited to Exadata storage node configurations only.
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