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
• 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” on page 88).
Note:
You must go to
http://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/
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” on page 24, “Compute book” on page 29, “Half-length I/O book” on page 34, “Full-length I/O book”
on page 35, and “Standard I/O book” on page 31,
• 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
.For more information about supported RAID adapters, see Table 22
“Supported RAID adapters and where you can install the adapters.” on page 86. For more information
about the supported RAID cache cards, see Table 23 “Supported RAID cache cards and where you can
install the cache cards.” on page 87. For information about the supported Ethernet adapters, see
“Supported ML2 (Ethernet) adapters” on page 88. For more information about the supported Features on
Demand (FoD) software, see Table 25 “Supported Features on Demand software and information about
the Features on Demand software” on page 90. For more information about the supported Host Bus
Adapters, see “Supported host bus adapters” on page 85.
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