
CONFIGURATION GUIDE – NEC Express5800/A2040b, A2020b, A2010b, A1040b
NEC Corporation Revision 8.0 – April 2015
3.2 Memory Configuration
Refer to the section in accordance with your memory configuration.
Memory configuration consists of 2 modes; “Independent Mode” and “Lockstep Mode”.
Under each Mode, 2 features are available; “Memory Rank Sparing” and “Memory Mirroring”.
Default setting at the server delivery is Lockstep Mode.
Independent Mode (only): Refer to 3.2.1
Lockstep Mode (only): Refer to 3.2.2
Memory Rank Sparing: Refer to 3.2.3
Memory Mirroring: Refer to 3.2.4
Please refer to “Memory” of “Reference” section for Memory on the Memory Riser Card (DIMM) installation
priority/order per Independent Mode, Lockstep Mode, Memory Rank Sparing and Memory Mirroring..
Memory Configuration Feature Comparison
See the table below for feature comparisons of memory configurations supported.
Memory Rank Sparing
under Independent
Mode
Memory Mirroring
under Independent Mode
In case of correctable
errors, switching to
spare memory rank
1/2(8GB RDIMM),
3/4(16GB RDIMM),
7/8(32GB LRDIMM) or
3/4(64GB LRDIMM)
of physical memory
Available Memory
Channel
1
Maximum Memory
Capacity
2
512GB(8GB RDIMM)
1024GB(16GB RDIMM)
2048GB(32GB LRDIMM)
4096GB(64GB LRDIMM)
256GB(8GB RDIMM)
768GB(16GB RDIMM)
1792GB(32GB LRDIMM)
3072GB(64GB LRDIMM)
256GB(8GB RDIMM)
512GB(16GB RDIMM)
1024GB(32GB LRDIMM)
2048GB(64GB LRDIMM)
RDIMM and LRDIMM
cannot be mixed
RDIMM and LRDIMM
cannot be mixed
RDIMM and LRDIMM
cannot be mixed
1
4 memory channels per Memory Riser Card.
2
All DIMMs have the same capacity
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