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Summary

Page 2 - Contents

Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters—The Freedom to Choose ii Contents Abstract ........................................................................................... 3 Changes in server interconnectivity ........................................................... 3 The need for LOM flexibili...

Page 3 - Abstract

Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters—The Freedom to Choose 3 Abstract The twelfth-generation Dell™ PowerEdge™ server portfolio uses a Dell custom daughter card to house the complete LAN on Motherboard (LOM) subsystem. In these systems, the LOM is provided on the Network Daughter Card (NDC) as part...

Page 4 - The server interconnect landscape; The need for LOM flexibility; More capabilities

Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters—The Freedom to Choose 4  Traditional networking and storage server I/O is converging, broadening the supplier choice. The Select Network Adapter provides link speed choice, network interface choice, and vendor choice. Figure 1. The server interconnect landscap...

Page 5 - Choosing which NDC to use

Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters—The Freedom to Choose 5 functions and workloads. This allows adaptation to technology changes during server generations, such as 40GbE and multi-port 10GbE. Dell’s rack Select Network Adapter options include quad-port 1GbE and 10GbE options. 10GbE options inclu...

Page 6 - Available NDC options; Supported Select Network Adapters for PowerEdge rack servers; Features

Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters—The Freedom to Choose 6 Available NDC options Table 1 and Table 2 detail the NDC options for PowerEdge rack servers and blade servers, respectively. In addition to these, Dell plans to offer more options in the future as well. Keep in mind that an NDC must be p...

Page 7 - Supported Select Network Adapters for PowerEdge blade servers

Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters—The Freedom to Choose 7 Features Broadcom 5720 Base-T Intel ® I350 Base-T Broadcom 57800 Base-T and SFP+ Intel x540 Base-T DCB Not supported Not supported Not supported Supported 4 iSCSI TLV Not supported Not supported Not supported Supported 5 Supported PowerE...

Page 8 - GbE port features; ISCSI boot; 0GE port features

Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters—The Freedom to Choose 8 Features Broadcom 57810S KR Intel x520 KR QLogic QMD8262 KR Supported PowerEdge servers M620 M620 M620 1 Only 10GbE ports have iSCSI HBA support. 2 Only 10GbE ports have FCoE support. 3 Only 10GbE ports have Switch Independent Partitioni...

Page 10 - Enhanced Transmission Selection

Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters—The Freedom to Choose 10 Data Center Bridging (DCB) Data Center Bridging (DCB) includes support for the following IEEE standards:  P802.1Qaz: IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks - Amendment: Enhanced Tran...

Page 11 - Multiple Receive Queues; Server high availability:; Physical and virtual server:

Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters—The Freedom to Choose 11 Multiple Receive Queues Multiple Receive Queues is a hypervisor-enabled technology that offloads the software vswitch from sorting and forwarding the received packets to specific VMs. The NDC controller does the sorting and forwarding o...

Page 12 - 0Gb Switch Independent Partitioning

Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters—The Freedom to Choose 12 Note: The maximum number of supported partitions by the Broadcom 2x1Gb+2x10Gb rack NDC is 4 (2 partitions per 10Gb port). The 1Gb ports do not support Switch Independent Partitioning. Figure 2. 10Gb Switch Independent Partitioning SR-IO...

Page 13 - Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters software features; Vendors; Supported system interfaces; PCIe interface

Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters—The Freedom to Choose 13 Table 3. Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters software features Vendors Chipset Supported speed FCoE (offload, boot) ISCSI (boot, offload, software) Switch Independent Partitioning SR-IOV DCB with iSCSI System management with real-tim...

Page 14 - I2C interface; PowerEdge platforms that support Select Network Adapters; Device Disable

Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters—The Freedom to Choose 14 I2C interface I2C clock and data signals are connected to the TFRU. The Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) part is specific to Dell programs and comes preprogrammed with the base FRU code, greatly simplifying manufacturing of the device. It a...

Page 15 - Form factors; Blade Select Network Adapters; 0GbE blade NDC; Rack Select Network Adapters

Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters—The Freedom to Choose 15 Form factors Blade Select Network Adapters This is a single type of Select Network Adapter that supports 10GBASE-KR. KR is a 10Gbps serial interface routed over the blade server mid-plane connecting to an IOM switch or Pass-thru. Three ...

Page 16 - Error! Reference source not; x 1G BT NDC

Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters—The Freedom to Choose 16 An Intel 2x1Gb + 2x10Gb Base-T rack NDC, as shown in Figure 4, offers two types of interconnects to meet various connectivity needs. Figure 4. Rack 2x1Gb+ 2x10Gb BT NDC 4 x 1G NDC A Broadcom 4 x 1G NDC provides four 1000BASE-T ports, as...

Page 17 - Conclusion

Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters—The Freedom to Choose 17 Figure 6. Rack 2x1Gb+ 2x10Gb SFP+ NDC Conclusion The Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters family is designed to provide a choice of integrated network interconnects for PowerEdge rack and blade servers. The portfolio includes choice o...

Page 18 - Appendix A: Industry specifications; Acronym

Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters—The Freedom to Choose 18 Appendix A: Industry specifications  IEEE Data Center Bridging (DCB) standards: http://www.ieee802.org/1/pages/dcbridges.html  SR-IOV Specification: http://www.pcisig.com/specifications/iov/single_root/  NC-SI Specification Version 1...

Page 19 - Appendix C: 10GE connectivity options

Dell PowerEdge Select Network Adapters—The Freedom to Choose 19 Acronym Meaning Acronym Meaning NVRAM Non-Volatile Random Access Memory SIG Special Interest Group OptROM Option ROM SLES Novell ® SUSE ® Linux Enterprise Server OS Operating System SRIOV Single Root I/O Virtualization PCI Peripheral Co...