SYSTEM CONFIGURATION GUIDE
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NEC Express5800/R110h-1
NEC Corporation
Revision 5.0
– January, 2017
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PCI slot limitations
See the table below for the limitations on installing PCI cards (due to the number of interrupts that can be processed in the system)
depending on the installed processor.
Processor
RAID controller required
PCI slot limitations
Pentium G4400
Yes
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Do not install the following PCI cards.
N8190-158A Fibre Channel Controller (2ch)
N8190-157A Fibre Channel Controller (1ch)
N8103-179 RAID Controller (2GB, RAID0/1/5/6)
N8103-184 SAS Controller
N8104-152 Quad Port 1000BASE-T Adapter
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Up to one card from the following can be installed.
N8104-153 Dual Port 10GBASE-T Adapter
N8104-149 10GBASE SFP+ Adapter (SFP+/2ch)
N8104-151 Dual Port 1000BASE-T Adapter
N8104-150 1000BASE-T Adapter
●
No limitations for other cards.
No
●
Do not install the following PCI cards.
N8190-158A Fibre Channel Controller (2ch)
N8190-157A Fibre Channel Controller (1ch)
●
Up to one card from the following can be installed.
N8103-179 RAID Controller (2GB, RAID0/1/5/6)
N8103-184 SAS Controller
N8104-152 Quad Port 1000BASE-T Adapter
●
No limitations for other cards.
Xeon E3-1220v5
Yes
●
Do not install N8190-158A Fibre Channel Controller (2ch)
●
Up to one card from the following can be installed.
N8190-157A Fibre Channel Controller (1ch)
N8103-179 RAID Controller (2GB, RAID0/1/5/6)
●
No limitations for other cards.
No
●
Do not install the following PCI cards when N8190-158A Fibre
Channel Controller (2ch) is installed.
N8190-157A Fibre Channel Controller (1ch)
N8103-179 RAID Controller (2GB, RAID0/1/5/6)
N8103-184 SAS Controller
N8104-152 Quad Port 1000BASE-T Adapter
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No limitations when N8190-158A Fibre Channel Controller (2ch)
is not installed.
Other processors
-
No limitations
PCI slot limitations for VMware
Do not install N8104-152 Quad Port 1000BASE-T Adapter when any of the following cards is installed.
N8104-153 Dual Port 10GBASE-T Adapter
N8104-157 Dual Port 10GBASE-T Adapter
N8104-149 10GBASE SFP+ Adapter (SFP+/2ch)
For the configuration limitation for VMware ESXi, refer to the following documents.
VMware ESXi5.5
https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere5/r55/vsphere-55-configuration-maximums.pdf
VMware ESXi6.0
https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere6/r60/vsphere-60-configuration-maximums.pdf