Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerEdge R940xa Installation and Service Manual
- Contents
- About this document
- PowerEdge R940xa system overview
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Front bezel
- Drives
- System cover
- Support bar
- Cooling fans
- Cooling fan assembly
- Optional USB 3.0 module
- Optional optical drive
- Control panel
- Air shroud
- NVDIMM-N battery
- Drive backplane
- System memory
- Processors and heat sinks
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Expansion card installation guidelines
- Removing the expansion card riser
- Installing the expansion card riser
- Removing the expansion card from the riser
- Installing the expansion card in the riser
- Removing the expansion card from the system board
- Installing the expansion card on the system board
- GPU card installation guidelines
- Removing the GPU
- Installing the GPU
- M.2 SSD module
- Optional IDSDM or vFlash module
- Network daughter card
- System battery
- Optional internal USB memory key
- Power supply units
- Power interposer board
- Trusted Platform Module
- System board
- Jumpers and connectors
- System diagnostics and indicator codes
- Getting help
- Documentation resources
Table 18. Riser configuration (X16PCIe Riser 1+X16 PCIe Riser 2)with NVME in a quad processor
configuration (continued)
Card Type Slot Priority Maximum number of Cards
INTEL 10Gb NICs 6,7 2
INTEL 10Gb NICs 9,11,2,4 4
Mellanox 10Gb NICs 6,7 2
Mellanox 10Gb NICs 9,11,2,4 4
Qlogic 10Gb NICs 9,11,2,4 4
Qlogic 10Gb NICs 6,7 2
Solarflare 10Gb NICs 9,11,2,4 4
Solarflare 10Gb NICs 6,7 2
Emulex FC8 HBA 6,7 2
Emulex FC8 HBA 9,11,2,4 4
Qlogic FC8 HBA 6,7 2
Qlogic FC8 HBA 9,11,2,4 4
Broadcom 1Gb NICs 9,11,2,4 4
Broadcom 1Gb NICs 6,7 2
INTEL 1Gb NICs 6,7 2
INTEL 1Gb NICs 9,11,2,4 4
Dell design Non-RAID 6,7 2
Dell design Non-RAID 9,11,2,4 4
Dell design NVMe PCIe SSD 6,7,9,11,2,4 6
INTEL rNDC Integrated Slot 1
Broadcom rNDC Integrated Slot 1
Mellanox rNDC Integrated Slot 1
Qlogic rNDC Integrated Slot 1
Table 19. Riser configuration (X8PCIe Riser 1+X8 PCIe Riser 2)with NVME in a quad processor
configuration
Card Type Slot Priority Maximum number of Cards
Intel 25G NICs 1,2,3,4,8,9,10,11 8
Intel 25G NICs 6,7 2
Dell design PERC10 4 1
Intel FPGA 1,2,3,4,8,9,10,11 8
Mellanox Infiniband HCA EDR 6,7 2
Mellanox 100G NICs 6,7 2
INTEL Omni-Path HFI 6,7 2
Dell design BOSS 1,2,3,4,8,9,10,11 1
Dell design BOSS 6,7 1
Dell design External RAID 6,7 2
Dell design External RAID 1,2,3,4,8,9,10,11 2
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