
Maximize server performance with a powerful and versatile mezzanine card.
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Maximize the performance of PowerEdge™ servers in virtual environments with the high-bandwidth capability of a Broadcom 10GbE KR Blade Converged Mezzanine Card.
- Extensive bandwidth: Provides two ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) with full 10Gb line-rate performance per port
- Fast, reliable performance: Keeps data moving with hardware offload for network (TOE) and storage traffic while offering support for data center bridging (DCB)
- Customizable configurations: Supports fabric-independent NIC partitioning (NPAR), which helps to improve resource utilization and deployment flexibility

Get the most from your PowerEdge investment
Get maximum performance from your PowerEdge™ servers with Broadcom® 57810S Dual-Port 10GbE KR Blade Converged Mezzanine Cards. Each Broadcom 57810S offers massive bandwidth through two 10GbE ports and is supported by the established performance of the Broadcom architecture and software stack.
- Easy integration: Developed to the latest IEEE standards and offering PCI hot plug/hot swap capability, the Broadcom 57810S fits easily into your virtualized or workload-intensive PowerEdge server environment. It also works across a range of OS offerings, including Microsoft® Windows® 2008 and 2008 R2 Server, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux, SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server and VMware® vSphere™.
- Improved management efficiency: Reach new levels of speed and convenience through remote access to Dell’s Lifecycle Controller management framework.
- Advanced capabilities: Bring scalable performance and flexible provisioning to your data center through high-performance hardware offload (iSCSI and FCoE-ready) and switch-independent NIC partitioning (NPAR) capabilities.
Controller
- Broadcom BCM57810S
Data Path
- Eight lanes
Data Bus
- PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0
Form Factor
- Custom for Dell™ PowerEdge™ 12G blade servers
Transfer Rate
- 10Gbps
Ethernet Ports
- Two
Wake On LAN
- Yes
PXE Support
- 2.1
Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
- Yes
Connector
- N/A
TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE)
- Yes
iSCSI boot
- Yes
Advanced Features
- Support for:
VMware™ NetQueue and Microsoft™ VMQ - Helps to increase performance in virtual server environments
Switch independent NIC partitioning (NPAR) - Enables segmentation of a single 10GbE port into as many as four partitions, allowing dynamic allocation of bandwidth on as needed basis to improve application performance.
High performance hardware offload for iSCSI and FCoE-ready storage protocols
VLAN support (IEEE 802.1q VLAN tagging) - Helps to improve management efficiency, security and network flexibility
Precision time protocol (PTP) ready - Provides more granular level of time synchronization between the constituents of an Ethernet network
MSI-X - Enhances overall system performance, reduce system overhead, lower interrupt latency and increase host CPU utilization
Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) management application - Streamline management tasks, optimize performance and improve up-time
iSCSI remote boot support - Helps IT administrators significantly reduce time to deployment of new or replacement servers.
Standards Supported
- Standards:
PCI Express base specification 2.0
PCI bus power management interface (rev 1.2)
Advance error reporting
TCP segmentation/large send offload
Advanced Error Reporting (AER)
PCI hot plug/hot swap
ACPI v2.0
SMBus 2.0
IEEE 802.3ae
IEEE 802.3ap
IEEE 1588-Precision Time Protocol (PTP) -Ready
IEEE 802.1q-Virtual LAN (VLAN) support - VLAN tagging support
IEEE 802.3x-Flow control
IEEE 802.3ad (Link aggregation)
IEEE 802.3z (Clause 30) - Statistics for SNMP MIB II, Ethernet-like MIB and Ethernet MIB
IEEE 802.1ab (Link Level Discovery Protocol)
Teaming support
MSI-X supports independent queues
Data Center Bridging (DCB):
Compliance:
RoHS (EU - Directive 2002/95/EC - and China), FCC Class A, UL, CE, VCCI, BSMI, CTICK, KC
Operating System
- Microsoft® Windows® 2008 and 2008 R2 Server all editions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) 5.x.7 and 6.x.1
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 SP4 and 1111 SP2
VMware® vSphere 4.1 and 5.0
Performance Features
- Automatic link aggregation and load balancing
Large Send offload (LSO)
Receive side scaling (RSS)
Transmit side scaling (TSS)
TCP, IP, UDP checksum offloads
VLAN support with VLAN tag
MSI-X support
IPv4 and IPv6 offload
iSCSI HBA full offload
FCoE- ready HBA full offload
TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE)
Advanced Error Reporting (AER)
SR-IOV ready
Protocols
- NETBUI
Collision Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance
802.2 Netbios
IPX/SPX, IPX, IP, TCP/IP
Environmental Operating Conditions
- Temperature:
Operating: 32° to 131°F (0° to 55°C)
Storage: -22° to 149°F (-40° to 65°C)
Warranty
- 1-year limited warranty*


