Dell Broadcom 57810 Dual Port 10Gbe SFP+ High Profile Network Card 0Y40PH

Product Overview

The Dell 0Y40PH (powered by the Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57810S controller) is a high-performance, dual-port 10GbE Converged Network Adapter (CNA) optimized for enterprise data centers, cloud infrastructure, and virtualization workloads. It consolidates standard network traffic and storage traffic (iSCSI/FCoE) onto a single, robust 10GbE fabric, significantly reducing host CPU utilization through complete hardware offloads.

Technical Specifications

General Information

• Manufacturer: Dell / Broadcom

• Dell Part Number (DP/N): 0Y40PH / Y40PH

• Chipset / Controller: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57810S

• Device Type: Converged Network Adapter (CNA) / Network Interface Card (NIC)

• Form Factor: Plug-in PCIe Card

• Bracket Profile: High-Profile / Full-Height (Low-Profile brackets exist under separate SKUs)

Hardware Features

• Bus Type: PCI Express 2.0 x8 (5.0 GT/s) — Backward compatible with PCIe 1.1; mechanically compatible with x8 and x16 slots.

• Data Transfer Rate: 10 Gbps per port (Up to 20 Gbps full-duplex line rate per port)

• Interface / Ports: 2 x 10Gb Ethernet – SFP+ (Small Form-Factor Pluggable Plus) Cages

• Cabling Support:

  • SFP+ Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Twinax cables (up to 7 meters)

  • SFP+ Active Optical Cables (AOC)

  • SFP+ Optical Transceivers (10GBASE-SR short-range, 10GBASE-LR long-range)

Advanced Enterprise & Virtualization Features

Storage & Protocol Offloads

• Full iSCSI Hardware Offload: Delivers high-performance iSCSI Host Bus Adapter (HBA) functionality with up to 1.5 million iSCSI IOPS.

• Full FCoE Hardware Offload: Supports Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) HBA capabilities with up to 2.6 million FCoE IOPS.

• TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine): Processes network protocols directly on the card to free up system CPU cycles.

NPAR (Network Partitioning)

• Switch-Independent Partitioning: Allows a single physical 10GbE port to be segmented into up to four virtual ports (partitions) per link. Bandwidth can be dynamically allocated to each virtual port based on application needs without requiring special switch support.

Virtualization Capabilities

• SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization): Allows virtual machines to directly share PCIe hardware resources.

• VMware NetQueue & Microsoft VMQ: Optimizes packet handling inside hypervisors by mapping queues directly to virtual machines.

• VXLAN and NVGRE Tracking: Prepared for hardware-assisted network virtualization tunneling protocols.

IEEE Standards & Protocols

• IEEE 802.3ae (10Gb Ethernet)

• IEEE 802.1Q (VLAN Tagging, up to 4,096 VLAN tags)

• IEEE 802.3ad (Link Aggregation Control Protocol / LACP)

• IEEE 802.3x (Flow Control)

• Data Center Bridging (DCB): Includes IEEE 802.1Qbb (Priority-based Flow Control) and IEEE 802.1Qaz (Enhanced Transmission Selection / DCBX).

• IEEE 1588 / 802.1as (Precision Time Protocol / PTP-Ready)

Physical & Environmental Parameters

Dimensions

• Card Size: Standard low-profile dimensions of 6.60 in × 2.71 in (167.64 mm × 68.91 mm) but fitted with a full-height (high-profile) bracket.

Environmental Limits

• Operating Temperature: 32 °F to 131 °F (0 °C to 55 °C)

• Storage Temperature: –40 °F to 149 °F (–40 °C to 65 °C)

• Relative Humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing

• Cooling: Passive heatsink (relies on server chassis internal airflow)

Compatibility & OS Support

Server Compatibility

Optimized primarily for Dell PowerEdge Gen12 and Gen13 systems, including but not limited to:

• PowerEdge Rack Servers: R220, R320, R420, R520, R620, R720, R720xd, R820, R920, R630, R730, R730xd, R930

• PowerEdge Tower Servers: T420, T620, T630

Supported Operating Systems

• Microsoft Windows Server (2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, 2022)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) / CentOS / Rocky Linux

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)

• Ubuntu Server

• VMware vSphere / ESXi (versions 5.x up to legacy and modern supported baseline releases)