CONFIGURATION GUIDE
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NEC Express5800/A2040d, A2020d, A2010d, A1040d
NEC Corporation
Rev.2.0
– Oct. 2017
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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 ESXi6.5 (including update)
A. Limitation of VMware ESXi6.5
I.
LAN Boards
1Gb: max. 16 ports
10Gb: max. 8 ports
Combination of 1Gb and 10Gb: max. 8 ports for 10Gb and max. 4 ports for 1Gb
II.
FC Controllers
8Gb/16Gb: Max. 8 cards in total and max. 16 ports in total
Note: Please refer to the following site for details:
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere6/r65/vsphere-65-configuration-maximums.pdf
B. Limitation by the combination of CPU and PCI Cards
Product Code
Model
CPU
NE3303-178
NE3303-177
NE3303-H004
NE3304-151M
NE3304-152M
NE3304-149
NE3304-157
not available *4
not available *4
Max. 2 cards *4
Max. 4 cards *4
NE3390-157A
NE3390-158A
NE3390-159
NE3390-160
NE3303-142
*3
-
-
-
-
NE3303-184
Max. 1 card
-
Max. 1 card
-
16
13
13
11
In addition to the above, please also follow "Available Slots Matrix (general)" and "Installation Limitations due to I/O Space".
*1 Max. number of slots depends on the number of CPU: Max. slot
（
1CPU: 4slots, 2CPU: 9slots, 3CPU:13slots, 4CPU:16slots)
*2 By using PCI card spending less I/O space, the max. number will be increased
*3 NE3304-142 SAS Controller (6Gb/s,12Gb/s) not supported for VMware environment.
*4 For Lan card and FC Contoller, please follow "Limitation of VMware ESXi6.5".
Max. # of slots *1 *2
SAS Controller
(6Gb/s SAS)
SAS Controller
(12Gb/s SAS)
10GBASE-T Adapter (2ch)
(PCI Express 3.0(x4))
Fibre Channel Controller (1port)
(16Gbps/Optical)
Max. 8 cards in
total *4
Max. 4 cards in
total *4
Max. 4 cards in
total *4
Max. 4 cards in
total *4
Fibre Channel Controller (2port)
(16Gbps/Optical)
Fibre Channel Controller (1port)
(8Gbps/Optical)
Fibre Channel Controller (2port)
(8Gbps/Optical)
1000BASE-T Adapter (2port)
Max. 6 cards in
total *4
Max. 8 cards in
total *4
Max. 4 cards in
total *4
Max. 1 card in total
*4
1000BASE-T Adapter (4port)
10GBASE Adapter (SFP+/2ch)
RAID Controller
Max. 2 cards in
total
Max. 1 card in total
Max. 2 cards in
total
Max. 2 cards in
total
RAID Controller
(1GB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
External RAID Controller
(2GB, RAID 0/1/5/6)
A2040d/A2020d/A2010d/A1040d
All CPUs
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