Dell External R720 T Technical Manual

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34 PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide Local or remote re-configuration 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 LifecycleController GUIFor information on card installation, requirements, and slot priorities, see thePowerEdge R720 andR720xd Owner’s Manual on Support.Dell.com/Manuals.The R720 and R720xd 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. Twoprocessors are required in the system to enable all PCIe slots. The R720 and R720xd have beendesigned to be PCIe 3.0 compliant in order to take full advantage of the processor capabilities. Table16 details the R720 and R720xd PCIe slots.System R720 R720xdSlots17 6Slot types One x16 full-length, full-heightThree x8 full-length, full-heightThree x8 half-length, half-heightTwo x16 full-length, full-heightOne x8 full-length, full-heightThree x8 half-length, half-height1In a single-processor configuration, slots 1–4 are not usable.The R720 and R720xd support a variety of PCIe expansion cards. Table 17 lists the supported add-inNICs and HBAs for the R720 and R720xd.Type Adapter1Gb/10Gb NICsBroadcom 5720 2x1Gb Base-TBroadcom 5719 4x1Gb Base-TIntel I350 2x1Gb Base-TIntel I350 4x1Gb Base-TBroadcom 57810S 2x10Gb SFP+Broadcom 57810S 2x10Gb Base-TIntel X520 2x10Gb SFP+Intel X540 2x10Gb Base-TQLogic® QLE8262 2x10Gb SFP+Brocade® BR1020 2x10Gb SFP+