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Abstract
The ThinkSystem Broadcom 57454 10GBASE-T Ethernet Adapters are high-performance 10 Gb Ethernet adapters in either standard PCIe form factor or the Open Compute Project (OCP) 3.0 SFF form factor.
This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the adapters and their key features, specifications, and compatibility. This guide is intended for technical specialists, sales specialists, sales engineers, IT architects, and other IT professionals who want to learn more about Broadcom 10 GbE network adapters and consider their use in IT solutions.
Change History
Changes in the August 1, 2024 update:
- Added information about factory preload support for operating systems - Operating system support section
Introduction
The ThinkSystem Broadcom 57454 10GBASE-T Ethernet Adapters are high-performance 10 Gb Ethernet adapters in either standard PCIe form factor or the Open Compute Project (OCP) 3.0 SFF form factor. They offer TruFlow™ intelligent flow processing and support advanced networking technologies including RoCE v2, SDN, NFV and virtualization.
Did you know?
10GBASE-T is a low-cost way to enter the 10 Gb Ethernet space. By using standard UTP twisted pair cabling, you eliminate the need for transceivers or fiber optic cabling.
The OCP 3.0 adapters support the Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-SI) for communication with the server's onboard service processor. This support enables sharing the network interface with the service processor and the operating system, thereby eliminating the need for a separate management network.
Part number information
The ordering information is listed in the following table.
* Feature code BFY6 is for the SR860 V2 and SR850 V2; B5SU is for all other supported servers
The adapters, when shipped as a stand-alone option part number, includes the following items:
- One Broadcom adapter
- PCIe adapters: Full-height (3U) bracket attached with low-profile (2U) bracket included in the box
- Documentation flyer
Network cabling requirements
The network cables that can be used with the adapters are as follows:
- 10GBASE-T
- UTP Category 7 (100 m maximum)
- UTP Category 6a (100 m maximum)
- UTP Category 6 (55 m maximum)
The following table lists the supported Category 6 (CAT 6) cables.
Features
The adapters have the following features:
- Broadcom TruFlow technology integrates flow processing to provide hardware assisted processing of traffic flows with data path Acceleration. TruFlow enables efficient network flow processing and increases Virtual Machine density by offloading the server CPU to improve application performance.
- Broadcom adapters are the industry’s most secure Ethernet solution, leveraging Broadcom’s BroadSAFE® technology to provide unparalleled platform security via Silicon Root of Trust. Broadcom is the first Ethernet Adapter vendor to store authentication key and code in silicon to protect clients from maliciously modified firmware.
- The adapters support RoCEv2. RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) allows Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) traffic to be communicated over Converged Ethernet using Data Center Bridging (DCB). Broadcom’s Smart Congestion Control provides consistent and predictable performance for real world workloads plus scaling for heavily loaded network traffic making it ideal for clients looking for deterministic low latency.
- Support for Data Center Bridging (DCB), including IEEE 802.1Qbb Priority based Flow Control (PFC), 802.1Qaz Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS), and 802.1Qau Quantized Congestion Notification (QCN) capabilities. DCB technology allows the device to provide lossless data delivery, prioritize low latency traffic, and share bandwidth among data center physical links.
- Support for SR-IOV to allow I/O transactions to bypasses hypervisors, which reduces latency by removing data copies and context switches between VM address space and hypervisor address space, when transmitting or receiving data over the network. The implementation supports 802.1Qbg Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB)
Specifications
The adapters have the following technical specifications:
- Four port 10 Gbps Ethernet controller with RJ45 connectors
- 10GBASE-T IEEE 802.3an support
- 1000BASE-T IEEE 802.3ab support
- Based on the Broadcom BCM57454 (4-port) controller
- Host interface:
- Low profile adapter: PCIe 3.0 x8 host interface
- OCP 3.0 adapter: PCIe 3.0 x16 host interface
- OCP adapters are designed to the Open Compute Project (OCP) NIC 3.0 (version 0.85) with the primary connector (4C+ OCP)
- Supports Message Signal Interrupt (MSI-X)
- Support for PXE boot, UEFI, and Wake-on-LAN (WOL, OCP adapter only)
- iSCSI boot is only supported via server UEFI; iSCSI boot is not supported by the adapter in legacy mode
- Function-Level Reset (FLR) support
- Network Controller Sideband Interface (NC-SI) (OCP adapter)
- PCIe-based UART and KCS
- SMBus 2.0
- Networking Features
- Jumbo frames (up to 9600-Byte)
- 3x flow control
- Link Aggregation (802.3ad)
- Virtual LANs-802.1q VLAN tagging
- Configurable Flow Acceleration
- Advanced Congestion Avoidance
- IEEE 1588 and Time Sync
- Forward Error Correction Clause 74, Clause 91 support over 25 Gbps
- Performance Features
- 30M Packet Per Second
- Low latency
- Bidirectional wire speed throughput
- Stateless Offload Features
- IPv4 and IPv6 offloads
- TCP, UDP, IPv4, IPv6 checksum offload
- Large Send Offload (LSO)
- Receive Segment Coalescing
- TCP Segmentation offload (TSO)
- Large Receive Offload (LRO)
- Generic Receive Offload
- Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
- Transmit Side Scaling (TSS)
- Header-Payload Split
- Accelerated Received Flow Steering (RFS)
- Virtualization
- vSwitch Acceleration
- NetQueue, VMQueue, and Multiqueue
- SR-IOV with up to 1K virtual functions (VFs).
- VXLAN-aware stateless offloads
- NVGRE-aware stateless offloads
- Geneve-aware stateless offloads
- IP-in-IP-aware stateless offloads
- GRE-aware (encap/decap) stateless offloads
- Stateless Transport Tunneling
- Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB)
- Per Virtual Function (VF) statistics
- VF Receive-Side Scaling (RSS)/Transmit-Side Scaling (TSS)
- RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
- RoCEv2
- Data Center Bridging with RoCE
- Reliable Connection Queue Pair
- Unreliable Datagram Queue Pair
- Raw Ethertype Queue Pair
- Up to 1 million Queue Pairs
- Up to 64K Shared Receive Queues
- Up to 1 million Completion Queues
- Up to 1 million Memory Regions and Memory Windows
- Up to 1 million Protection Domains
- Up to 250 outstanding RDMA Reads or Atomics per Queue Pair
- Congestion Avoidance (hardware-based flows tracking and rate adjustment)
- Fast Memory Register
- Linux OFED 3.5 and later
- MS-Windows Network Direct Kernel Provider Interface and SMBDirect
- MS-Windows Network Direct Service Provider Interface
- Integrated Flow Processing
- 1 million+ Exact Match Flows
- Exact Match Flow Lookup
- Wildcard Match Flow Lookup
- VLAN insertion/deletion
- NAT/NAPT
- Tunnel Encapsulation/De-capsulation
- Flow tracking and aging
- Mirroring
- Metering
- Flow counters/statistics
- Custom tunnel header support
- Data Center Bridging
- Priority-based flow control (PFC; IEEE 802.1Qbb)
- Enhanced transmission selection (ETS; IEEE 802.1Qaz)
- Quantized Congestion Notification (QCN; IEEE 802.1Qau)
- Data Center Bridging Capability eXchange (DCBX; IEEE 802.1Qaz)
- Up to 8 traffic classes per port; fully DCB compliant per 802.1Qbb
- Manageability
- TruManage Technology based on Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standards and protocols, support for SMASH2.0, WS-Man, and IPMI2.0/DCMI1.5
- Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) - MCTP over SMBus and MCTP over PCIe VDM
- Power Saving
- ACPI compliant power management
- PCI Express Active State Power Management (ASPM)
- PCI Express eCLKREQ support
- PCI Express unused lane powered down
- Ultra low-power mode
- Power Management (PM) Offload
Server support
The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
SR860 V2 and SR850 V2: For the SR860 V2 and SR850 V2, use feature BFY6 to order the PCIe adapter in the server using configure-to-order. For field upgrades, use part number 4XC7A08245 but ensure the adapter has the latest firmware.
Operating system support
The following table indicates which operating systems can be preloaded in the Lenovo factory for CTO server orders where this adapter is included in the server configuration.
Tip: If an OS is listed as "No support" above, but it is listed in one of the support tables below, that means the OS is supported by the adapter, just not available to be preloaded in the Lenovo factory in CTO orders.
The following tables list the supported operating systems:
- ThinkSystem Broadcom 57454 10GBASE-T 4-port PCIe Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08245
- ThinkSystem Broadcom 57454 10GBASE-T 4-port OCP Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08240
Tip: These tables are automatically generated based on data from Lenovo ServerProven.
1 The OS is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors.
2 ISG will not sell/preload this OS, but compatibility and cert only.
1 For limitation, please refer Support Tip 104278
2 Limitation notice: Broadcom 57454 OCP adapter bandwidth shows incorrectly under Ubuntu OS with SR650 V2/SR630 V2 servers, which is planned to be fixed by 1Q'22
3 The OS is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors.
4 ISG will not sell/preload this OS, but compatibility and cert only.
Physical specifications
The PCIe adapter has the following dimensions:
- Length: 167 mm (6.6 in.)
- Height: 63 mm (2.5 in)
The OCP adapter has the following dimensions:
- Width: 76 mm (3 in.)
- Depth: 115 mm (4.5 in.)
Operating environment
The adapters are supported in the following environment:
- Temperature (operating): 0 to 55 °C (32 to 131 °F)
- Temperature (storage): -40 to 65 °C (-40 to 149 °F)
- Humidity: 5 to 95% non-condensing
Warranty
One-year limited warranty. When installed in a supported server, these adapters assume the server’s base warranty and any warranty upgrade.
Agency approvals
The adapters conform to the following standards:
- EN 55022:2010 + AC:2011 Class B (CE EU)
- EN 55024 Class B (EU)
- CFR47, Part 15 Class B (USA FCC)
- ICES-003 Class B (Canada)
- CNS13438 Class B (BSMI Taiwan)
- RRL KN22 Class B (S. Korea)
- KN24 (ESD) (S. Korea)
- V-3 / 2014 / 04 (VCCI Japan)
- EN 60950-1
- UL 60950-1
- CTUVus UL
- CSA 22.2 No. 950
- CNS14336 Class B
- ICES 003
- UL 1977 (connector safety)
- UL 796 (PCB wiring safety)
- UL 94 (flammability of parts)
Top-of-rack Ethernet switches
The following 10GBASE-T 10Gb Ethernet top-of-rack switches are supported.
For more information, see the Lenovo Press Product Guides in the 10Gb top-of-rack switch category:
https://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/10gb
Related publications
For more information, see the following resources:
- Networking Options for ThinkSystem Servers
https://lenovopress.com/lp0765-networking-options-for-thinksystem-servers - Lenovo ServerProven compatibility information:
http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/serverproven/
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Full Change History
Changes in the August 1, 2024 update:
- Added information about factory preload support for operating systems - Operating system support section
Changes in the April 17, 2023 update:
- iSCSI boot is no longer supported - Specifications section
Changes in the January 12, 2023 update:
- RoCE v1 is no longer supported - Specifications section
Changes in the July 7, 2021 update:
- The OCP adapter has a PCIe 3.0 x16 host interface - Specifications section
Changes in the February 15, 2021 update:
- Clarified the feature code ordering information for the PCIe adapter - Part number information section
- The server support tables are now automatically updated - Server support section
Changes in the October 13, 2020 update:
- Added the SR850 V2 and SR860 V2 servers - Server support section
Changes in the August 25, 2020 update:
- The following adapters are now supported in the SR635 and SR655:
- ThinkSystem Broadcom 57454 10GBASE-T 4-port OCP Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08240
- ThinkSystem Broadcom 57454 10GBASE-T 4-port PCIe Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08245
Changes in the July 10, 2020 update:
- Added tables to the Operating system support section
First published: 5 May 2020
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