Reference Guide

11 NVMe and I/O Topologies for Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers
Populated with sixteen NVMe drives
Figure 7: PowerEdge R840 CPU mapping with sixteen NVMe drives
4S 2U Server; Balancing Capacity and Bandwidth
This 2U PowerEdge R840 configuration supports sixteen NVMe drives and eight
SATA/SAS drives. The NVMe drives are connected to CPU3 and CPU4 through with an
extender and the SATA/SAS drives are connected to the PERC through slot 1. This
configuration balances NVMe capacity and bandwidth support.