Reference Guide

18 NVMe and I/O Topologies for Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers
3.3 PowerEdge R7515
Populated with twelve NVMe drives
Figure 14: PowerEdge R7515 CPU mapping with twelve NVMe drives and twelve SAS drives
2U 1S Server; Maximize NVMe Bandwidth
This 2U PowerEdge R7515 configuration supports twelve NVMe drives and twelve
SATA/SAS drives. The NVMe drives are connected directly to the CPU and the
SATA/SAS drives are connected to the MB PERC. Customers supporting workloads
that demand maximum NVMe and storage performance will need maximum bandwidth
provided by this configuration to drive the best throughput (GB/s) performance connect
to the devices.