
CONFIGURATION GUIDE
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NEC Express5800/A2040c, A2020c, A2010c, A1040c
NEC Corporation
Rev.2.0
–Sep. 2015
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Installation Limitations for VMware
For VMware environment, PCI cards have limitations as for the number of the cards to be installed, depending
on the combination of the PCI cards. Please refer below for the details.
(1) VMware ESXi6.0
Product Code
Model
CPU
NE3303-178
NE3303-177
NE3303-H004
NE3304-151M
NE3304-152M
NE3304-149
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Max. 8 ports
NE3390-157A
NE3390-158A
NE3390-159
NE3390-160
NE3303-142
NE3303-184
SAS Controller
(6Gb/s SAS)
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*1 Max. number of slots depends on the number of CPU: Max. slot
(
1CPU: 4slots, 2CPU: 9slots, 3CPU:13slots, 4CPU:16slots)
Max. # of slots *
16
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1Gb + 10Gb combination: Max. 8 ports
for 10Gb and Max. 4 ports for 1Gb
1000BASE-T Adapter (4port)
Fibre Channel Controller (1port)
(16Gbps/Optical)
・
Max. 8 cards in total
・
Max. 16 ports in total
Fibre Channel Controller (2port)
(16Gbps/Optical)
Fibre Channel Controller (1port)
(8Gbps/Optical)
Fibre Channel Controller (2port)
(8Gbps/Optical)
10GBASE Adapter (SFP+/2ch)
A2040c/A2020c/A2010c/A1040c
Note
All CPUs
Name/Description
RAID Controller
(2GB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
Same as "Available Slots Matrix (general)"
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RAID Controller
(1GB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
External RAID Controller
(2GB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
SAS Controller
(12Gb/s SAS)
1000BASE-T Adapter (2port)
・
Max. 16 ports in total