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Executive summary
4 PCIe Card Cooling with Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers
Executive summary
The adoption of PCIe adapters, especially of customer-specific appliance solutions based on PowerEdge
servers, is increasing. With this increase, it is important to highlight how PowerEdge servers address thermal
management of PCIe adapters, especially of third-party cards. This paper also provides details on airflow
customization options available for such cases. The following figure is a high-level workflow of how PCIe
adapters are thermally managed—from systems management perspective—in PowerEdge Servers. The
details of various sections of this flowchart are discussed in this white paper.
Third-party card airflow customization options