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Half-height blades, Installing a mezzanine card – Dell PowerEdge M610 User Manual

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Installing Blade Components

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• PowerEdge M610x supports two small-form factor (SFF) mezzanine cards.

x8 PCIe Gen 1 and x8 PCIe Gen 2 cards are supported.

Half-Height Blades

Half-height blades support two mezzanine cards:

• Mezzanine card slot C supports Fabric C. This card must match the fabric

type of I/O modules installed in I/O module bays C1 and C2.

• Mezzanine card slot B supports Fabric B. This card must match the fabric

type of I/O modules installed in I/O module bays B1 and B2.

Types of Cards Supported

• PowerEdge M710HD supports SFF and LFF mezzanine cards. x8 PCIe

Gen 1 and x4 PCIe Gen 2 cards are supported.

• PowerEdge M610 supports two SFF or one SFF card and one LFF

mezzanine card. x8 PCIe Gen 1 and x4 PCIe Gen 2 cards are supported.

• PowerEdge M605 and M600 support two LFF x8 PCIe Gen 1 mezzanine

cards.

Installing a Mezzanine Card

1 Remove the blade. See "Removing a Blade" on page 155.
2 Open the blade. See "Opening the Blade" on page 159.
3 Open the mezzanine card latch by pressing the ridged area on the latch

with your thumb and lifting the end of the latch. See Figure 3-24 or

Figure 3-25.