Dell PowerEdge M1000e User Manual page 78

Select Network Adapters for blade servers
Features
Ports x Link Speed
Supported Speed
Chipset
Interface
ISCSI HBA
ISCSI Boot
FCoE
FCoE Boot
Switch Independent
Partitioning
DCB
SR-IOV
WOL
PXE
EEE
2
Multi-queue (per port)
Supported Servers
Strengths
Dell M-Series Blade I/O Guide
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Broadcom Broadcom
57810S-k NDC 57840S-k NDC
(Default choice)
2x10Gb 4x10Gb
1Gb, 10Gb 1Gb, 10Gb
57810S 57810S
KR KR
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
3
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
No No
128 TX, 128 RX 128 TX, 128 RX
M620, M820 M620, M820
Continuity from older
High port count
server designs
Convergence features Convergence features
FCoE, iSCSI HBA and FCoE, iSCSI HBA and
NPAR NPAR
1: Citrix Xenserver 6.0 and Linux KVM only. 63 VFs per port
2: No. of queues will vary depending upon hypervisor memory limitations
3: 4 partitions per 10Gb port
4: 2 partitions per 10Gb port
Intel X520-k NDC
2x10Gb
1Gb,10Gb
X520/82599
KR
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
4 No
Yes
1
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
64 TX, 64 RX
M620, M820
Preference for Intel
Ethernet solutions
Software iSCSI and FCoE
QLogic QMD8262-k
NDC
2x10Gb
10Gb
P3+
KR
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
64 TX, 64 RX
M620, M820
Trusted Storage driver stack
Convergence features like
ISCSI HBA, FCoE and NPAR
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