Dual-Port 10GbE Network Daughter Card (NDC) for Dell Blade Servers.
The Broadcom® 57712-k Network Daughter Card (NDC) is a flexible LAN on motherboard networking solution that supports switch-independent NIC partitioning — giving administrators the ability to divide a single network port into as many as four partitions and allocate bandwidth as needed.
- High performance: Provides the highest performance levels for mission-critical enterprise and mega data centers.
- Switch-Independent NIC partitioning (NPAR): Helps flexibly manage the 10GbE bandwidth allocation to virtual machines and applications by dividing a physical port into four logical ports.
- No-compromise converged NIC: Broadcom leverages field-proven support for L2 networking, TCP/IP offload, iSCSI HBA offload — and FCoE HBA offload with low CPU utilization.
- Low CPU utilization: Broadcom offload architecture helps minimize CPU overhead, freeing valuable CPU cycles for processing user applications
Highlights
- Supports both networking traffic and storage traffic over a single 10GbE connection.
- Supports Switch Independent NIC Partitioning (NPAR) on a broad range of IO Modules (such as the M8024-k and M8428-k) or external 10GbE switches (through the 10GbE Pass Through Module-k).
- Supports Data Center Bridging (DCB) — Data Center Bridging eXchange (DCBX)/Priority-based Flow Control (PFC)/Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) for Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Lossless iSCSI-TLV on a broad range of DCBX capable switches (such as the M8428-k FCF switch module and many other external TOR switches through the 10GbE Pass Through Module-k).
- Supports up to 8 virtual NIC ports with NIC partitioning. Each partition appears as a separate NIC to the operating system.
- Provides a dependable, performance-focused solution that can be optimized for high throughput and high I/O per second with low CPU utilization.
- NIC partitions can be assigned to networking or storage functions, such as Internet SCSI (iSCSI) or FCoE.
- Optimizes performance with high throughput, low latency and minimal CPU utilization.
- Provides robust and seamless manageability through management application software.
Controller
- BCM57712-k Dual-Port, 10Gbps Ethernet-to-PCIe Adapter for PowerEdge® Blade
Data Path
- Eight lanes (PCIe® Gen2 x8 bus)
Data Bus
- PCI Express 2.0
Form Factor
- Dell custom Network Daughter Card for PowerEdge blade servers (M710HD and M915)
Transfer Rate
- 10Gbps Ethernet speed
Ethernet Ports
- Dual 10Gbps Ethernet
Wake On LAN
- Yes
PXE Support
- Yes
Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
- Yes
TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO)
Yes
Large Send Offload (LSO)
Yes
Large Receive Offload (LRO)
Yes
Giant Send Offload (GSO)
Yes
Checksum Offload (IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP)
Yes
Jumbo Frames (9600 bytes)
Yes
VMware® NetQueue and Microsoft® VMQ®
Yes
802.1q VLAN Tagging
Yes
Integrated FCoE Host Bus Adapter (HBA)
Yes
Integrated iSCSI Host Bus Adapter (HBA)
Yes
Switch Independent NIC Partitioning (NPAR)
Yes
Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) Ready
Yes
Data Center Bridging (DCB)
Yes – Supports Data Center Bridging eXchange (DCBX), Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) and Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS) Protocols
DCB iSCSI-TLV
Yes
Automatic Link Aggregation and Load Balancing
Yes
Smart Load Balancing (SLB) for Heterogeneous Failover and increased throughput
Yes
Host Interrupts – INTx, MSI, MSI-X and Interrupt Coalescing
Yes
TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE)
- Yes
iSCSI boot
- Yes
FCoE SAN boot
Yes
Advanced Features
- TCP/IP Offload Engine(TOE) for increased bi-directional throughput and performance
Integrated iSCSI Host Bus Adapter(HBA) functionality
Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
TCP Segmentation
802.1q VLAN Tagging
Link Aggregation and Load Balancing
Jumbo Frames
iSCSI HBA
FCoE ready
IPV6 Checksum
Standards Supported
- ACPI v2.0
Operating System
- Microsoft® Windows® 2008 and 2008 R2 Server all editions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 5.5 and 6.0
SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 U1
VMware® ESX 4.0 4.1
NDIS 2 for DOS
No Linux support for TOE
Server Compatibility
- PowerEdge™ M710HD and M915
Performance Features
- Automatic link aggregation and load balancing
Large Send Offload capability
Smart Load Balancing for heterogeneous failover and increased throughput
Remote Boot for remote system setup and maintenance
Protocols
- NETBUI
Collision Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance
802.2 Netbios
IPX/SPX, IPX, IP, TCP/IP
Environmental Operating Conditions
- Operating: 32° to 131°F (0° to 55°C)
Storage: -22° to 149°F (-40° to 65°C)
Power
- 3.3V +/-5%, Maximum 1,058 mA (DC)
12.0V +/- 5%, Maximum 110 mA @12.0V (DC)
12.0V +/- 5%, Maximum 4,870 mA @12.0V (DC)
Warranty
- 1-year limited warranty
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