IBM 71413SU - System x3950 M2 Reference

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IBM System x3950 M2 and x3850 M2 Technical Introduction 33As shown in Figure 15, there are seven PCI Express x8 slots. Slots 6 and 7 support hot-plugPCI Express adapters.Figure 15 PCI Express slotsNote the following configuration information: Full-length cards are not supported. Half-length cards are supported, however. Video adapters are not supported. The PCI Express slots support x4 or x8 PCI Express adapters only. It is recommended that for performance reasons, you do not install more than two highspeed (that is, 8 Gbps or faster) PCI Express cards per PCI bridge (bridge 1 is slots 1, 2, 3and 4; bridge 2 is slots 5, 6, and 7) with a maximum of four per system. Examples ofadapter cards that have bandwidth maximums of 8 Gbps or more include 10 GbpsEthernet card and dual-port 4 Gbps Fibre Channel cards.PCI Express x8(x8 lanes) slot 1PCI Express x8(x8 lanes) slot 2PCI Express x8(x8 lanes) slot 3PCI Express x8(x8 lanes) slot 4PCI Express x8(x8 lanes) slot 5PCI Express x8(x8 lanes) slot 6PCI Express x8(x8 lanes) slot 7ServeRAID-MR10KInternal USBRemote Supervisor Adapter IIBatterySAS backplane powerFront panel/light path diagnosticsDVDFront USBSASbackplanesignalRemoteSupervisorAdapter IISystemManagementaccessHot-plug switch card