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Installing an adapter

User this information for an overview of the type of adapters that the server supports and information about installation rules.

The following notes describe the types of adapters that the server supports and other information that you must consider when you install an adapter.

Attention
Do not install the optional NVIDIA Grid K1 and K2, the NVIDIA Tesla K20 and K40, and the NVIDIA Quadro K4000 and K6000 adapters in systems containing 1TB of system memory or more. If these options are installed in systems with 1TB of memory or more, it might cause undetected data corruption and system instability. These options are only supported in systems containing less than 1TB of memory. This limitation applies to both the 4-socket (4U) and the 8-socket (8U) configurations.
  • To confirm that the server supports the adapter that you are installing, see the Lenovo ServerProven website.
  • Locate the documentation that comes with the adapter and follow those instructions in addition to the instructions in this section.
  • The server does not support PCI-X adapters or legacy 5 V PCI adapters.
  • The server supports optional Ethernet adapters that you can purchase. For more information about the supported adapters, see Supported ML2 (Ethernet) adapters).
    Note
    You must go to the Lenovo Data Center Support website and download the latest device drivers for the ML2 Ethernet adapters. Look for the Ethernet adapters under NIC adapters. Use the release notes and read.txt files for the device driver installation instructions.
  • The server provides up to twelve PCIe Gen 3 and Gen 2 slots.
  • The server also supports several optional NVIDIA adapters that you can purchase.
    Attention
    Do not install the NVIDIA Grid K1 and K2, the NVIDIA Tesla K20 and K40, and the NVIDIA Quadro K4000 and K6000 adapter options in systems containing 1TB of system memory or more. If these options are installed in systems with 1TB of memory or more, it might cause undetected data corruption and system instability. These options are only supported in systems containing less than 1TB of memory. This limitation applies to both the 4-socket (4U) and the 8-socket (8U) configurations.
  • For information about the specific adapters that you can install in the individual I/O book, see Storage book, Compute book, Half-length I/O book, Full-length I/O book, and Standard I/O book,
  • The server supports optional RAID controllers, RAID cache cards, and Feature On Demand software RAID that you can purchase for RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 5, 6, 50, and 60 support. For configuration information, see the documentation that comes with the adapter or the ServeRAID documentation at the Lenovo Data Center Support website.
    For more information about supported RAID adapters, see Table 1. For more information about the supported RAID cache cards, see Table 1. For information about the supported Ethernet adapters, see Supported ML2 (Ethernet) adapters. For more information about the supported Features on Demand (FoD) software, see Table 1. For more information about the supported Host Bus Adapters, see Supported host bus adapters.