BCM57840S Product Brief

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QUAD-PORT 10GbE NETWORK DAUGHTER CARD FOR
DELL® PowerEdge® 12G BLADE SERVERS
Overview
Highlights
• Delivers full line-rate 10GbE
performance across all ports.
• Consolidates network traffic and
storage traffic over converged
10GbE connections.
• Enables provisioning of 10GbE
ports for greater deployment
flexibility through Switch
Independent Partitioning.
• Boosts host CPU efficiency with
hardware offload for network
(TCP/IP) and storage (FCoE/
iSCSI) data traffic.
• Streamlines administrative tasks
with Broadcom Advanced
Control Suite (BACS) management application and integration into Dell's embedded
management framework
(iDRAC7 and Lifecycle
Controller).
• Improves reliability and interoperability—leverages
Broadcom's market-proven
Ethernet architecture and
software.
57840S
Cloud
Computing
Virtual
Server
High Performance
Computing
Best Choice
Broadcom® now offers a quad-port 10 Gb Ethernet
(10GbE) Network Daughter Card (NDC) for Dell®
PowerEdge® 12G blade servers. It leverages
Broadcom's long-standing industry leadership in
Ethernet, providing the highest levels of
performance, efficiency, and scalability for the
enterprise data center.
For more effective utilization of the 10GbE bandwidth, the Broadcom 57840S-based NDC offers
Switch Independent Partitioning which enables the
segmentation of a single 10GbE port into two
virtual ports with flexible allocation of bandwidth
to each of the ports. This allows IT organizations to
improve resource utilization while lowering
infrastructure and operational costs.
Virtualization, cloud computing, HighPerformance Computing (HPC), convergence, and
clustering initiatives are increasing workload
demands. The Broadcom 57840S-based blade NDC
is the solution of choice for workload-intensive
computing environments, providing a reliable,
high-performance 10GbE connectivity solution.
Features
• Quad-port 10GbE connectivity for Dell
PowerEdge 12G blade servers
• x8 PCI Express® (PCIe™) V3.0 (8 GT/s) support
• Full line-rate performance across all ports
• Broad OS and hypervisor support
• Full iSCSI and FCoE hardware offload
• Full TCP/IP hardware offload
– Microsoft® Chimney-compliant
• Network boot support:
– iSCSI remote boot
– FCoE boot from SAN
– Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) 2.0
• Switch Independent Partitioning with up to
two partition assignments per 10GbE link
• Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS)
management application
• Integration into Dell's embedded management
framework (iDRAC7 and Lifecycle Controller)
• MSI and MSI-X support
• IPv4 and IPv6 offloads
• PCI-SIG SR-IOV
• Comprehensive stateless offloads
• RX/TX multiqueue
• Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
• Transmit Side Scaling (TSS)
• Support for VMware® NetQueue™ and
Microsoft VMQ
• VLAN tagging support
• Jumbo frame support for frames larger than
1500 Bytes
• Network Teaming, Failover and Load
Balancing:
– Smart Load Balancing (SLB)
– Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
and Generic Trunking
• Data Center Bridging (DCB)
Benefits
Specifications
• Accelerates Server Performance:
– Boosts network performance with full line-rate 10GbE
performance across all ports.
– Increases server performance with full hardware offload
for storage traffic.
– Delivers highest networking performance and lowest CPU
utilization with TCP/IP offload (TOE).
– Optimizes server processing performance by reducing
CPU overhead and lowering interrupt latency through the
use of the MSI-X standard.
– Boosts performance in Windows® and Linux® environments by directing interrupts to the server's CPU cores,
leveraging Transmit/Receive Side Scaling (TSS/RSS).
• Robust Virtualization Capabilities:
– Superior network performance with support for VMware
NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ technologies.
– Enhances network management and efficiency with
support for VLAN tagging.
• Streamlines Deployment and Management:
– Increases network flexibility, scalability, and capacity with
Switch Independent Partitioning, segmenting 10GbE ports
and reallocating their bandwidth and resources to address
application's performance requirements.
– Simplifies deployment and management complexity—
Broadcom Ethernet solutions are available across a wide
range of Dell server platforms.
– Unifies the NIC and storage management using Dell iDRAC
and Lifecycle Controller management framework or
Broadcom Advanced Management Suite (BACS).
General
Form factor
Data rate
Bus type
MAC controller
NDC 2.45" x 3.0" (62.2 mm x 76.2 mm)
10 Gbps (per port, per direction), backward compatible
with 1 Gbps
x8 PCI Express 3.0 (8.0 GT/s)
Broadcom BCM57840S
OS Support
Microsoft
Linux
VMware
Citrix
Windows Server® 2008 and 2008 R2, all editions
Windows Server 2012
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.7/5.8, 6.1/6.2/6.3
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 SP4, 11 SP2
vSphere™ 4.1 and 5.x
XenServer 6.0/6.1
Management
Broadcom
Dell
BACS management application, WMI, and Broadcom
Management API (BMAPI)
Embedded management framework (iDRAC and
Lifecycle Controller)
Environmental Requirements
Operating temperature
Storage temperature
Relative humidity
32°F to 131°F (0°C to 55°C)
–40°F to 149°F (–40°C to 65°C)
5% to 95% noncondensing
Hardware
Certifications
RoHS, FCC A, UL, CE, VCCI, BSMI, CTICK, KC
Advanced Features and Standards
PCI Express base specification 3.0
PCI bus power management interface (rev. 1.2)
Advanced Error Reporting (AER)
TCP segmentation/large send offload
ACPI v2.0
SMBus 2.0
IEEE 802.3ap
IEEE 1588—Precision Time Protocol (PTP)-Ready
IEEE 802.1q—VLAN tagging support
IEEE 802.3x—Flow control
IPv4 and IPv6 offload
Teaming support
MSI-X supports independent queues.
Ordering Information
Broadcom 57840S Quad-Port 10GbE Blade Converged Network Daughter Card
Server Option P/N
540-BBCQ
About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM),
a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global
leader and innovator in semiconductor
solutions for wired and wireless
communications. Broadcom® products
seamlessly deliver voice, video, data, and
multimedia connectivity in the home,
office, and mobile environments. With the
industry's broadest portfolio of state-ofthe-art system-on-a-chip and embedded
software solutions, Broadcom is changing
the world by Connecting everything®. For
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www.broadcom.com.
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May 31, 2013 • 2CS957840S-PB100-R