R740XD NVME functionality

Hello thanks for choosing Dell and welcome to our community.

Could you see here and find out the figuration you want to achieve?

https://dell.to/4e4vlMg

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Honestly, none of that looks ideal for what I have going on. 

I have a double height powered GPU on riser 2, with 10G mini Nic underneath 1 PCIE port is open, a double height powered GPU on riser 3 with no additional space for cards, and on Riser 1, I have my SAS 9300-8e card going to my EMC DS60 JBOD. I do have a CDC7W Extender card with W6N4m SAS HD Cable and 0FJH5T Backplane here. Not sure if any of that works together.

My perc is a H330Mini. I do have also have a OMDDTD card here, but then I lose the Mini Perc capability. Plus it's only a dual slot riser. 

I am not able to find that backplane, would you verify the part number for us. Also, the configuration would be based off the backplane, as described on page 135 here. 

This is what is installed in the server from what I can tell by the numbers. 

Dell R740XD 24x 2.5" SFF (24SAS/SATA) Backplane K2Y8N 58D2W 0P1MJ3

Sorry the part number P1MJ3 is what it came up as, and from the looks of it it should support that configuration.

So the backplane supports NVME? Is there a setting in the BIOS I need to update in order for it to initialize?

Do I need any hardware except the mini perc H330 I already have?

Hello, to follow the

"Figure 15. Cable routing – 24 x 2.5 inch NVMe drive backplane "

you will need a NVME card along with the H330.
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Like the CDC7W card? I have one of those, but I still cannot get the NVME drives to initialize. Could it be a cable problem? I'm using the W6N4M cable plugged into A0 and B0. on the backplane.

Please advise.

Yes you do need a cable indeed, according to Figure 15. Cable routing – 24 x 2.5 inch NVMe drive backplane.

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Do you have a PN for that cable?

Hello, this may help:

Part #:M7X6F

Part Desc.:ASSY,CRD,BP,24X2.5,N,R740XD

I don’t need the backplane, right? I needed a cable to go between my BP and the expansion card. 

Hi,

Had a brief read at your post and reviewed some of the part numbers that you have provided. I'm not sure if it may work, but it would be a first to see such configuration. 1 of the riser has already been populated and only have 1 remaining slot. According to the slot installation allocation: https://dell.to/4cfuuH8 the bridge is installed on 3 or 4. So you only need the cable to complete the connection. 

Do update us on your progress. 

@DELL-Joey C​ 

I am just getting back to this after a very long summer.

Currently I have a Nvidia RTX3070 Founders on riser 3 (DTTHJ), an Intel A750 on riser 2 (J7W3K) with a Network daughter card below for 10g networking (x710), and a LSI SAS9300-8e connected to a DS60 storage enclosure. PCI slot 1 and 3 are empty.

I am running dual Gold 6140's with 128GB RDIMM @ 2666 mt/s.


Please if there is more information you need, in order to either provide a parts list, or solutions it would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, at this point I'd like to direct you to the sales. Folks that are engaging here are for troubleshooting when you have an issue with your system. It is out of scope for tech support to build/upgrade servers, we have no tools for it. And I'm afraid doing guess work would make it worse. If sales are involved they should have all the tools needed and have option to swap parts if needed. https://dell.to/4gmtq72
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