Dell PowerEdge VRTX Technical Manual

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20 PowerEdge VRTX Technical Guide7 PCIe InfrastructureInstead of using traditional I/O modules for Fabric B or Fabric C, Dell has designed the PowerEdgeVRTX to use PCIe slots using two PCIe switches — one for Fabric B and one for Fabric C. Each PCIeswitch ties into one of the two mezzanine cards on the server nodes.The Fabric B PCIe switch provides connectivity to the following: PCIe slot 3 PCIe slot 5 PCIe slot 6 PCIe slot 7 PCIe Slot 8 Shared PowerEdge RAID Controller (SPERC)The Fabric C PCIe switch provides connectivity to the following: PCIe slot 1 PCIe slot 2 PCIe slot 4 PCIe slot 5The PCIe slots are non-shared and thereby dedicated to one server node within the PowerEdgeVRTX system. The PCIe slots can be reassigned to a different server through the CMC as needed.Each slot is capable of being exclusively assigned to any server node, although it does requirepowering the server node off. You can assign up to four PCIe slots to one server node.Supported PCIe cardsVRTX supports the following PCIe expansion cards. AMD FirePro™ W7000 6Gb/s SAS HBA (low-profile and full-height) Broadcom® dual-port 1Gb (low-profile and full-height) Intel dual-port 1Gb (low-profile and full-height) Intel dual-port 10Gb Base-T (low-profile and full-height) Intel dual-port 10Gb Base-SFP+ (low-profile and full-height) Intel quad-port 1Gb (low-profile and full-height) Broadcom dual-port 10Gb Base-SFP+ (low-profile and full-height)