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This 4.5U PowerEdge T560 configuration supports 8 NVMe drives and 8 SATA/SAS drives. All NVMe drives connect to CPU1 through PERC 11 with 1 x8 cable or PERC12 with 2 x8 cables. All SAS/SATA drives connect to CPU1 through PERC11 with 1 x8 cable. This configuration also supports up to 2 GPUs. If 2 GPUs are in use, one GPU connects to CPU1 and the other to CPU2. A 1 GPU configuration connects to CPU1 only.
Customers who wish to free up usage on CPU2 and utilize hardware RAID should use this configuration.