Dell PowerEdge R730 Technical Manual

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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 LifecycleController GUIPCIe expansionFor information on card installation, requirements, and slot priorities, see thePowerEdge R730 andR730xd Owner’s Manual on Dell.com/Support/Manuals.PCIe slotsThe 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. Twoprocessors are required in the system to enable all PCIe slots. The R730 and R730xd have beendesigned to be PCIe 3.0 compliant in order to take full advantage of the processor capabilities. Table19 details the R730 and R730xd PCIe slots.Table 19. PCIe expansion slotsSystem R730 R730xdSlots1 7 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.PCIe expansion cardsThe R730 and R730xd support a variety of PCIe expansion cards. Table 20 lists the supported add-inNICs and HBAs for the R730 and R730xd.Table 20. Optional add-in PCIe expansion cardsType AdapterNICBroadcom® 5719 quad-port 1Gb NICBroadcom 5720 dual-port 1Gb NICQLogic® 57810 dual-port 10Gb BASE-T network adapterIntel Ethernet I350 dual-port 1Gb server adapterIntel Ethernet I350 quad-port 1Gb server adapterIntel Ethernet X540 dual-port 10GBASE-T server adapterEmulex® OCe14102-N1-D dual-port SFP+ 2 x 10Gb NICMellanox® ConnectX®-3 dual-port 10Gb Direct Attach/SFP+ server network adapter