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SERIAL CABLES PCI-SWGEN3-81U PCI Switch Board User’s Manual
1.
Introduction
1.1 Overview
SERIAL CABLES PCI-SWGEN3-81U NVMe switch board is designed to provide 12Bays NVMe
storage space expansion, The switch board equipped with two x16 SFF8644 for connecting host
or cascading.
The total maximum bandwidth is PCIe gen3 x32 512GT/s and allows up to 1-4 head-nodes
access the NVMe JBOF enclosure.
Downstream ports support twelve (12) SFF8643 connectors. It allows users to connect NVMe
SSD thru customized back plane board or SFF8643-SFF8639 cable adapter.
Switch board integrates Avago Technologies ExpressFabric Capella 2 PCIe Gen3 switch PEX9781,
implemented micro-controller provide users CLI commands for board and NVMe SSDs
management.