Dell PowerEdge R360 Installation and Service Manual

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Expansion card installation guidelines

The following table provides guidelines for installing expansion cards to ensure proper cooling and mechanical fit. The expansion cards with the highest priority should be installed first using the slot priority indicated. All the other expansion cards should be installed in the card priority and slot priority order.

Table 1. Expansion card riser configurationsThis table describes the supported riser configurations.
Configurations	Expansion card risers	PCIe Slot number	Form factor	Controlling processor	Slot's electrical bandwidth/physical connector
Config 0	No Riser	Integrated slot	Low Profile	Processor 1	PCIe Gen4 x4 (x8 connector)
Config 2	Butterfly Riser	Integrated slot	Low Profile	Processor 1	PCIe Gen4 x4 (x8 connector)
		1	Low Profile	Processor 1	PCIe Gen4 x8 (x8 connector)
		2	Low Profile	Processor 1	PCIe Gen4 x8 (x16 connector)

Table 2. Riser configurations: System without riser - Configuration 0 SAS/SATA This table provides information about the slot priority for System without riser - Riser configurations: System without riser - Configuration 1 SAS/SATA for PowerEdgeR360 system.
Card type	Slot Priority	Maximum number of cards
FOXCONN (aPERC 11 H755)	Integrated slot	1
FOXCONN (FPERC 11 H755)	Integrated slot	1
FOXCONN (aPERC HBA11 HBA355i)	Integrated slot	1
FOXCONN (FPERC HBA11 HBA355i)	Integrated slot	1
FOXCONN (aPERC 11 H355)	Integrated slot	1
FOXCONN (FPERC 11 H355)	Integrated slot	1
FOXCONN (BOSS-N1)	Integrated slot	1

Table 3. Riser configurations: System with butterfly riser : Configuration 2This table provides information about the slot priority for system with butterfly riser : Configuration RC1 PowerEdgeR360 system.
Card type	Slot Priority	Maximum number of cards
NVIDIA (GPU)	1	1
FOXCONN (aPERC 11 H755)	Integrated slot	1
FOXCONN (FPERC 11 H755)	Integrated slot	1
FOXCONN (aPERC HBA11 HBA355i)	Integrated slot	1
FOXCONN (FPERC HBA11 HBA355i)	Integrated slot	1
FOXCONN (External Adapter HBA355e)	2,1	2
FOXCONN (aPERC 11 H355)	Integrated slot	1
FOXCONN (FPERC 11 H355)	Integrated slot	1
Broadcom (NIC:1Gb)	1,2	2
Intel (NIC:10Gb)	1,2	2
Broadcom (NIC:10Gb)	1,2	2
Intel (NIC:1Gb)	1,2	2
FOXCONN (BOSS-N1)	Integrated slot	1
Broadcom (NIC:25Gb)	1,2	2
Intel (NIC:25Gb)	1,2	2