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Abstract
The Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Adapters are a family of high performance PCIe and OCP adapters. The adapters are available with either two ports or four ports and are supported on ThinkSystem and System x servers.
This product guide provides essential presales information to understand the NetXtreme GbE offerings 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 the 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 - ThinkSystem section
Introduction
The Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Adapters are a family of high performance PCIe and OCP adapters. The adapters are available with either two ports or four ports and are supported on ThinkSystem and System x servers.
Figure 1 shows the Broadcom NetXtreme I Quad Port GbE Adapter.
Figure 1. Broadcom NetXtreme I Quad Port GbE Adapter
Did you know?
The NetXtreme Quad Port Ethernet Adapter is an ideal way to implement a virtualization solution using your existing Gigabit Ethernet network. With four copper-based Gigabit ports on a single PCI Express 2.0 x4 interface, the adapter provides the density and capacity you need to support large numbers of virtualized systems on one server.
Part number information
The following table lists the ordering information for the adapters.
The part numbers for the PCIe adapters include the following items:
- One Ethernet adapter with full-height (4.75-inch) bracket
- Low profile (3.13-inch) bracket
- Documentation flyer
The following figure shows the Broadcom 5719 1GbE RJ45 4-port OCP Ethernet Adapter.
Figure 2. ThinkSystem Broadcom 5719 1GbE RJ45 4-port OCP Ethernet Adapter
Features and specifications
The adapters have the following features:
- One, two, or four 10/100/1000 copper ports with RJ45 for Cat 5e/6 cabling
- Full line-rate performance across all ports
- Standard form factor adapters, either PCIe low profile or OCP 3.0 SFF
- PCI Express 2.0 host interface (39Y6066 is PCI Express 1.1)
- Jumbo Frames support (9600 bytes frames)
- Wake-on-LAN (WoL) support
- IEEE 802.1q VLAN support - provides enhanced network management and efficiency
- I/O virtualization (IOV) support for VMWare NetQueue and Microsoft VMQ - improves network performance in virtualized environments
- IEEE 802.3x flow control support
- IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation support
- IEEE 802.3 auto-negotiation support
- Automatic MDI crossover
- Receive and transmit side scaling
- TCP, IP, and UDP checksum offload
- Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) and MSI-X support - Maximizes server processing performance by reducing CPU overhead and lowering interrupt latency
- On-chip temperature monitor (NetXteme I only)
- IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) compliant - Reduces adapter power consumption by up to 42% through intelligent adaptive power management, adjusting power based on data traffic load. (NetXtreme I only)
- IEEE 802.3z (Clause 30) - Statistics for SNMP MIB II, Ethernet like MIB, and Ethernet MIB (NetXtreme I only)
- IEEE 1588 Precision Time Control and 802.1AS time synchronization support - Provides greater accuracy of data packet delivery within the network (NetXtreme I only)
- Management using Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS), Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), and Broadcom Management API (BMAPI)
The following table compares the features of the cards.
Physical specifications
The adapters have the following physical specifications:
- OCP adapters:
- Width: 76 mm (3 in.)
- Depth: 115 mm (4.5 in.)
- 5720 2-Port adapters:
- Length: 109 mm (4.3")
- Height: 69 mm (2.7")
- Depth: 19 mm (0.74 in)
- 5719 4-Port adapters:
- Length: 132 mm (5.2")
- Height: 69 mm (2.7")
- Depth: 19 mm (0.74 in)
- Broadcom NetXtreme 2xGbE BaseT Adapter:
- Length: 118 mm (4.66 in)
- Height: 64 mm (2.53 in)
- Depth: 19 mm (0.74 in)
- Broadcom NetXtreme 1xGbE BaseT Adapter:
- Length: 149 mm (5.875 in)
- Height: 70 mm (2.75 in)
- Depth: 18 mm (0.70 in)
The following figure shows the Broadcom NetXtreme I Dual Port GbE Adapter
Figure 3. Broadcom NetXtreme I Dual Port GbE Adapter
Operating environment
The adapters are supported in the following environment:
ThinkSystem Broadcom 5720 1GbE RJ45 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter
ThinkSystem Broadcom 5719 1GbE RJ45 4-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter
Broadcom NetXtreme I Quad Port GbE Adapter
Broadcom NetXtreme I Dual Port GbE Adapter:
- Temperature:
- Operating at 0 to 914 m (0 to 3,000 ft): 10° to 35°C (50° to 95°F)
- Operating at 914 m to 2133m (3,000 to 7,000 ft): 10° to 32°C (50° to 90°F)
- Relative humidity: 20% to 80% (non-condensing)
Broadcom NetXtreme 2xGbE BaseT Adapter:
Broadcom NetXtreme 1xGbE BaseT Adapter:
- Temperature: 0° to 55°C (32° to 131°F)
- Relative humidity: 10% to 90%
Warranty
One-year limited warranty. When installed in a Lenovo server, these cards assume the server’s base warranty and any warranty upgrade.
Server support - ThinkSystem
The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
Server support - System x
The adapters are supported in the servers identified in the following tables.
Support for System x and dense servers with Xeon E5/E7 v4 and E3 v5 processors
Support for System x and dense servers with Intel Xeon E5/E7 v3 and E3 v4 processors
Support for servers with Intel Xeon v2 processors
See ServerProven for the latest information on the adapters supported by each server:
http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/serverproven
Connectors and LEDs
Figure 4 shows the LEDs on the PCIe adapters (2-port shown).
Figure 4. PCIe adapter connectors and LEDs
Regulatory compliance
The adapters conform to the following international standards:
- EN55022
- EN55024
- EN60950 / CE
- EN 61000-3-2
- EN 61000-3-3
- ICES-003, Issue-004
- IEC 950 CB Scheme
- FCC 47 CFR Part 15 Class A
- UL 1950
- CSA C22.2 950-95
- VCCI
- AS/NZSCISPR 22 / C-tick
- RRL for KC
- BSMI
- UL 94-/V
- RoHS
Operating system support - ThinkSystem
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 for each ThinkSystem part number.
- ThinkSystem Broadcom 5720 1GbE RJ45 2-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter, 7ZT7A00482
- ThinkSystem Broadcom NetXtreme PCIe 1Gb 4-Port RJ45 Ethernet Adapter, 7ZT7A00484
- ThinkSystem Broadcom 5719 1GbE RJ45 4-port OCP Ethernet Adapter, 4XC7A08235
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.