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Abstract
The ThinkSystem Broadcom 57412 and 57414 10/25GbE SFP28 Ethernet Adapters are high-performance 25 Gb Ethernet adapters that offers TruFlow intelligent flow processing and support advanced networking technologies including RoCE, SDN, NFV and virtualization.
This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the adapter and its 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 the Broadcom 25 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
Video Introduction
Introduction
The ThinkSystem Broadcom 57412 and 57414 10/25GbE SFP28 Ethernet Adapters are high-performance 25 Gb Ethernet adapters that offers TruFlow intelligent flow processing and support advanced networking technologies including RoCE, SDN, NFV and virtualization. Both 1-port (57412) and 2-port (57414) adapters are offered.
The following figure shows the 2-port adapter.
Figure 1. ThinkSystem Broadcom 57414 10/25GbE SFP28 2-port PCIe Ethernet Adapter
Did you know?
These adapters support 10 Gb or 25 Gb Ethernet switches, including the ThinkSystem NE2572 RackSwitch 25 Gb Ethernet switch. Alternatively, with suitable breakout cables, you can connect four 25 Gb adapters or ports to a single 100 GbE switch port such as the ThinkSystem NE10032 RackSwitch to maximize the investment of your 100Gb switch.
Part number information
The ordering information is listed in the following table.
* The 1-port adapter was previously named ThinkSystem Broadcom NX-E PCIe 25Gb 1-Port SFP28 Ethernet Adapter.
The PCIe adapters, when shipped as a stand-alone option part number, include the following items:
- One Broadcom adapter
- An attached full-height (3U) bracket, and a low-profile (2U) bracket that can be substituted if needed
- Documentation flyer
The following figure shows the 1-port adapter.
Figure 2. ThinkSystem Broadcom 57412 10/25GbE SFP28 1-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter
Supported transceivers and cables
The adapters have one or two empty SFP28 cages for connectivity. The adapters either support a connection to a 10 Gb or 25 Gb switch or can share a connection to a 100 Gb switch using a 4:1 breakout cable.
The following table lists the supported transceivers.
Configuration notes:
- It is supported to mix 10Gb and 1Gb transceivers or to mix 25Gb and 1Gb transceivers. It is not supported to mix 10Gb and 25Gb transceivers.
- Transceivers BF10, AV1B, and BYBJ are only supported at 25Gb/s speed on the PCIe adapter (4XC7A08238). The transceivers are supported at both 10Gb/s and 25Gb/s speeds on the OCP adapter (4XC7A08237).
25Gb transceivers: When installed in this 25Gb Ethernet adapter, 25Gb transceivers are designed to operate at either 25 Gb/s or 10 Gb/s speeds as listed in the description of the transceiver, however the speed also depends on the negotiation with the connected switch. In most configurations, this negotiation is automatic, however in some configurations you may have to manually set the link speed or FEC mode.
The following figure shows the 2-port OCP adapter.
Figure 3. ThinkSystem Broadcom 57414 10/25GbE SFP28 2-port OCP Ethernet Adapter
The following table lists the supported fiber optic cables and Active Optical Cables.
The following table lists the supported direct-attach copper (DAC) 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, increases Virtual Machine density by offloading the server CPU to improve application performance.
- Broadcom adapters are the industry’s most secure PCIe 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), which allows Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) traffic to be communicated over Converged Ethernet using 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 which bypasses the hypervisor, reducing the 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 adapter has the following technical specifications:
- Based on the Broadcom BCM57412 (1-port) and BCM57414 (2-port) controllers
- PCIe 3.0 x8 host interface
- Supports Message Signal Interrupt (MSI-X)
- Two or one SFP28 external connectors supporting a transceiver, direct-attach copper (DAC) cable or active optical cable (AOC).
- Support for PXE boot
- Support for Wake-on-LAN (WOL) (OCP adapter only)
- Networking Features
- Jumbo frames (up to 9600-Byte)
- 802.3x 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
- iSCSI boot is only supported via server UEFI; iSCSI boot is not supported by the adapter in legacy mode
- Performance Features
- Max. 30M Packet Per Second
- Low latency
- Bidirectional wire speed throughput
- Stateless Offload Features
- TCP, UDP, IPv4, IPv6 checksum offload
- Large Send Offload
- Receive Segment Coalescing
- TCP Segmentation offload
- Large Receive Offload
- 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
- PCI SIG SR-IOV compliant with support for 128 Virtual Functions
- Virtual NIC (vNIC) / Network Partitioning (NPAR) with support for up to 16 physical functions
- 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
- Energy Efficient Ethernet (IEEE Std 802.3az-2010)
- Power Management (PM) Offload
Server support
The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
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 57412 10/25GbE SFP28 1-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter, 7ZT7A00505
- ThinkSystem Broadcom 57414 10/25GbE SFP28 2-port PCIe Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08238
- ThinkSystem Broadcom 57414 10/25GbE SFP28 2-port OCP Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08237
Tip: These tables are automatically generated based on data from Lenovo ServerProven.
1 For limitation, please refer Support Tip TT1716
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 For limitation, please refer Support Tip TT1716
1 The OS is not supported with EPYC 7003 processors.
2 ISG will not sell/preload this OS, but compatibility and cert only.
Physical specifications
The PCIe adapters have 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 table lists the Ethernet LAN switches that are offered by Lenovo.
For more information, see the list of Product Guides in the following switch categories:
- 1 Gb Ethernet switches: http://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/1gb?rt=product-guide
- 10 Gb Ethernet switches: http://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/10gb?rt=product-guide
- 25 Gb Ethernet switches: http://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/25gb?rt=product-guide
- 40 Gb Ethernet switches: http://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/40gb?rt=product-guide
- 100 Gb Ethernet switches: https://lenovopress.com/networking/tor/100Gb?rt=product-guide
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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ServerProven®
ThinkSystem®
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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 October 31, 2023 update:
- Added the following transceiver - Supported transceivers and cables section:
- ThinkSystem Finisar Dual Rate 10G/25G SR SFP28 Transceiver, 4TC7A88638
Changes in the September 17, 2023 update:
- Withdrawn cables are now hidden; click Show Withdrawn Products to view them - Supported transceivers and cables section
Changes in the August 8, 2023 update:
- iSCSI boot is not supported in legacy mode - Specifications section
- Updated the table of supported cables - Supported transceivers and cables section
Changes in the April 17, 2023 update:
- iSCSI boot is no longer supported - Specifications section
Changes in the January 24, 2023 update:
- Updated the footnote regarding transceiver support of the PCIe adapter: Transceivers AV1B and BF10 are supported, however only at 25Gb/s speed on the PCIe adapter - Supported transceivers and cables section
Changes in the January 12, 2023 update:
- RoCE v1 is no longer supported - Specifications section
Changes in the November 8, 2022 update:
- Added the following breakout cables - Supported transceivers and cables section:
- Lenovo 1.5m 100G to 4x25G Breakout SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable, 4Z57A85043
- Lenovo 2m 100G to 4x25G Breakout SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable, 4Z57A85044
- Added a note that 10/25Gb transceivers AV1B and BF10 are not supported in the ThinkSystem Broadcom 57414 10/25GbE SFP28 2-port PCIe Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08238 - Supported transceivers and cables section
- Only the OCP adapter supports Wake on LAN (WoL) - Specifications section
Changes in the July 18, 2022 update:
- The following adapter is withdrawn from marketing:
- ThinkSystem Broadcom 57412 25GbE SFP28 1-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter, 7ZT7A00505
Changes in the February 15, 2022 update:
- The 2-port OCP adapter is feature code BN2T in some servers - Part number information section
- ThinkSystem Broadcom 57414 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port OCP Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08237
Changes in the February 2, 2022 update:
- The 2-port PCIe adapter is feature code BK1H in some servers - Part number information section
- ThinkSystem Broadcom 57414 10/25GbE SFP28 2-port PCIe Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08238
Changes in the December 14, 2021 update:
- Added support for the following transceivers - Supported transceivers and cables section:
- ThinkSystem Accelink 10G SR SFP+ Ethernet transceiver, 4TC7A78615
- Lenovo 25Gb SR SFP28 Ethernet Transceiver, 4M27A67041
Changes in the November 1, 2021 update:
- Added the following transceiver - Supported transceivers and cables section:
- Lenovo Dual Rate 10G/25G SFP28 85C Transceiver, 4TC7A69045
Changes in the October 20, 2021 update:
- Added a note that the 25GbE transceivers can operate at 25 Gb/s or 10 Gb/s speeds when installed in a 25GbE adapter - Supported transceivers and cables section
Changes in the February 23, 2021 update:
- 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 May 5, 2020 update:
- Added SR645 and SR665 to the server support table - Server support section
Changes in the January 7, 2020 update:
- Added SR850P to the server support table - Server support section
Changes in the October 24, 2019 update:
- Added OS support for the 57414 10/25GbE SFP28 2-port OCP Ethernet Adapter - Operating system support section
Changes in the August 7, 2019 update:
- New OCP adapter, ThinkSystem Broadcom 57414 10/25GbE SFP28 2-port OCP Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08237
Changes in the July 26, 2019 updates:
- New 2-port adapter, ThinkSystem Broadcom 57414 10/25GbE SFP28 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08238
Changes in the February 26, 2019 update:
- Operating system support information is now listed as a table which is automatically generated from ServerProven data - Operating system support section
Changes in the December 10, 2018 update:
- Added SFP+ 10Gb Active Optical Cables - Table 3 in the Supported transceivers and cables section
Changes in the November 5, 2018 update:
- Added new servers: ThinkSystem ST50, ST250, SR150 and SR250
Changes in the September 5, 2018 update:
- New name for the adapter:
- Was ThinkSystem Broadcom NX-E PCIe 25Gb 1-Port SFP28 Ethernet Adapter
- Now ThinkSystem Broadcom 57412 10/25GbE SFP28 1-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter
- Corrected the ASIC that the adapter is based on (BCM57412 instead of BCM57312)
- Updated the tables of supported transceivers and cables
Changes in the July 17, 2018 update:
- The adapter is now supported in the SR530, SR550, SR570, and SR590 - Server support section
- Updated the list of supported operating systems - Operating system support section
Changes in the November 28, 2017 update:
- Updated the server support table
First published: 20 November 2017
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