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PCIe full-height and full-high cards, which are plugged into the following servers slots:
– Power 720 and Power 740 (within the base system, five PCIe half-length slots
are supported.)
– Power 750
– Power 755
– Power 760
– Power 770
– Power 780
– Power 795
– PCIe slots of external I/O drawers, such as FC 5802 and FC 5877
Low-profile PCIe adapter cards are supported only in low-profile PCIe slots, and full-height
and full-high cards are supported only in full-high slots.
Figure 2-11 lists the PCIe adapter form factors.
Figure 2-11 PCIe adapter form factors
Many of the full-height card features are also available in low-profile format. For example, the
PCIe RAID and SSD SAS Adapter 3 Gb is available as a low-profile adapter or as a full-height
adapter, each one having a different feature code. As expected, they have equivalent
functional characteristics.
Table 2-12 is a list of low-profile adapter cards and their equivalents in full height.
Table 2-12 Equivalent adapter cards
Low profile
Adapter description
Full height
Feature
code
CCIN
Feature
code
CCIN
2053
57CD
PCIe RAID and SSD SAS Adapter 3 Gb
2054 or
2055
57CD
5269
5269
PCIe POWER GXT145 Graphics Accelerator
5748
5748
5270
2B3B
10 Gb FCoE PCIe Dual Port adapter
5708
2B3B
5271
5271
4-Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX PCI-Express adapter
5717
5271
Low Profile PCIe Slots
Power 710 / 730
Power 720 / 740
-
PCIe riser card
Low Profile
Full Height
Full High
Full High PCIe Slots
Power 720 / 740 / 750 / 760 / 770 / 780 / 795
12X PCIe I/O Drawer
-
FC 5802 / FC 5877 for 19-inch rack
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FC 5803 / FC 5873 for 24-inch rack
