Hi,
I have purchased a Dell Poweredge R930 Server with the following hardware configuration:
Four Intel® Xeon® E7-4820 v3 1.9GHz,25M Cache,6.4GT/s QPI,No Turbo,HT,10C/20T (115W)
2+2 Power Supply, Redundant Configuration, 1100W
3.2T FusionIO SX300 PCIe Solid State Storage Card
Broadcom 5720 QP 1Gb Network Daughter Card
Additional Intel Ethernet I350 QP 1Gb Server Adapter
2x QLogic 2562, Dual Port 8Gb Optical Fibre Channel HBA
No Graphics card
The latest generation of FusionIO cards need to draw more than 25W from the PCIe slot (Up to 75W) to reach their full performance. By default the card is set to draw only 25 Watts as a safety measure which limits the performance of the card. The safety feature can be disabled but comes with a warning that it needs to be connected to a PCIe slot that can provide 75w of power and if the PCIe slot can not provide 75w it could potentially damage the card.
My question Is can a Dell R930 with the above configuration supply 75w on its PCIe slots and if only certain slots, which ones?
Regards
Stephen