Lenovo ThinkSystem Broadcom 57504 10/25GbE SFP28 4-Port Ethernet Adapters User Guide

: June 3, 2024
: Lenovo

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Product Guide
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Part number information
Supported transceivers and cables
Features
Specifications
Server support
Physical specifications
Operating environment
Warranty
Agency approvals
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ThinkSystem Broadcom 57504 10/25GbE SFP28 4-Port Ethernet Adapters
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ThinkSystem Broadcom 57504 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port Ethernet Adapters

Product Guide

The ThinkSystem Broadcom 57504 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port adapters are high- performance low-power 25 Gb Ethernet adapters with a PCIe 4.0 host interface that offers TruFlow intelligent flow processing and supports advanced networking technologies such as VXLAN, NVGRE, Geneve, RoCE, SDN and NFV, to facilitate the management of data networks and to enable service provider solutions. The adapters are available in both PCIe or OCP 3.0 form factors.
The following figure shows the 4-Port PCIe Ethernet adapter.
Figure 1. ThinkSystem Broadcom 57504 10/25GbE SFP28 4-Port PCIe Ethernet Adapter

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These adapters are based on the Broadcom BCM57504 scalable Ethernet controller architecture, which is designed to build highly-scalable, feature-rich networking solutions. The adapters are an ideal choice for enterprise and cloud-scale networking and storage applications, including high-performance computing, telco, machine learning, storage disaggregation, and data analytics.

Part number information

The ordering information is listed in the following table.
Table 1. Part number information

Part number	Feature code	Description
4XC7A80566	BNWM	ThinkSystem Broadcom 57504 10/25GbE SFP28 4-Port PCIe

Ethernet Adapter
4XC7A80567| BPPW| ThinkSystem Broadcom 57504 10/25GbE SFP28 4-Port OCP Ethernet Adapter

The following figure shows the 4-port OCP adapter. ****

Figure 2. ThinkSystem Broadcom 57404 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port OCP Ethernet Adapter

Supported transceivers and cables

The adapters have 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.
Mixing transceivers: 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.
Table 2. Transceivers

Part number| Feature code|

Description

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10Gb transceivers
46C3447| 5053| SFP+ SR Transceiver
49Y4218| 0064| QLogic 10Gb SFP+ SR Optical Transceiver
49Y4216| 0069| Brocade 10Gb SFP+ SR Optical Transceiver
00FE331| B0RJ| 10GBASE-LR SFP+Transceiver
4TC7A78615| BNDR| Accelink SFP+ SR Transceiver
25Gb transceivers
7G17A03537| AV1B| Lenovo 25GBase-SR SFP28 Transceiver (supports 10Gb and 25Gb)
4TC7A69045| BF10| Lenovo Dual Rate 10G/25G SFP28 85C Transceiver (supports 10Gb and 25Gb)
4M27A67041| BFH2| 25Gb Ethernet SFP28 Optic/Transceiver Gen 2 (only operates at 25Gb)

25Gb transceivers: When installed in this 25Gb Ethernet adapter, certain supported 25Gb transceivers (as listed in the above table) are designed to operate at either 25 Gb/s or 10 Gb/s speeds, depending 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 table lists the supported fiber optic cables and Active Optical Cables.
Table 3. Optical cables

Part number| Feature code|

Description

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LC-LC OM3 Fiber Optic Cables (these cables require a 10 GbE SFP+ SR or 25 GbE SFP28 SR transceiver)
00MN499| ASR5| Lenovo 0.5m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
00MN502| ASR6| Lenovo 1m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
00MN505| ASR7| Lenovo 3m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
00MN508| ASR8| Lenovo 5m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
00MN511| ASR9| Lenovo 10m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
00MN514| ASRA| Lenovo 15m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
00MN517| ASRB| Lenovo 25m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
00MN520| ASRC| Lenovo 30m LC-LC OM3 MMF Cable
MTP-4xLC OM3 MMF Breakout Cables (these cables require a transceiver)
00FM412| A5UA| Lenovo 1m MPO-4xLC OM3 MMF Breakout Cable
00FM413| A5UB| Lenovo 3m MPO-4xLC OM3 MMF Breakout Cable
Part number| Feature code|

Description

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00FM414| A5UC| Lenovo 5m MPO-4xLC OM3 MMF Breakout Cable
SFP+ 10Gb Active Optical Cables
00YL634| ATYX| Lenovo 1M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable
00YL637| ATYY| Lenovo 3M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable
00YL640| ATYZ| Lenovo 5M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable
00YL643| ATZ0| Lenovo 7M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable
00YL646| ATZ1| Lenovo 15M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable
00YL649| ATZ2| Lenovo 20M SFP+ to SFP+ Active Optical Cable
SFP28 25Gb Active Optical Cables
7Z57A03541| AV1F| Lenovo 3m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable
7Z57A03542| AV1G| Lenovo 5m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable
7Z57A03543| AV1H| Lenovo 10m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable
7Z57A03544| AV1J| Lenovo 15m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable
7Z57A03545| AV1K| Lenovo 20m 25G SFP28 Active Optical Cable
QSFP28 100Gb Ethernet Breakout Active Optical Cables
7Z57A03551| AV1R| Lenovo 3m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable
7Z57A03552| AV1S| Lenovo 5m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable
7Z57A03553*| AV1T| Lenovo 10m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable
7Z57A03554| AV1U| Lenovo 15m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable
7Z57A03555| AV1V| Lenovo 20m 100G to 4x25G Breakout Active Optical Cable
OM4 LC to LC Cables (these cables require a transceiver)
4Z57A10845| B2P9| Lenovo 0.5m LC-LC OM4 MMF Cable
4Z57A10846| B2PA| Lenovo 1m LC-LC OM4 MMF Cable
4Z57A10847| B2PB| Lenovo 3m LC-LC OM4 MMF Cable
4Z57A10848| B2PC| Lenovo 5m LC-LC OM4 MMF Cable
4Z57A10849| B2PD| Lenovo 10m LC-LC OM4 MMF Cable
4Z57A10850| B2PE| Lenovo 15m LC-LC OM4 MMF Cable
4Z57A10851| B2PF| Lenovo 25m LC-LC OM4 MMF Cable
4Z57A10852| B2PG| Lenovo 30m LC-LC OM4 MMF Cable

Withdrawn from marketing
The following table lists the supported direct-attach copper (DAC) cables.
Table 4. Copper cables

Part number| Feature code|

Description

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SFP+ 10Gb Passive DAC Cables
00D6288| A3RG| 0.5m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
90Y9427| A1PH| 1m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
00AY764| A51N| 1.5m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
00AY765| A51P| 2m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
90Y9430| A1PJ| 3m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
90Y9433| A1PK| 5m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
00D6151| A3RH| 7m Passive DAC SFP+ Cable
SFP+ 10Gb Active DAC Cables
00VX111| AT2R| Lenovo 1m Active DAC SFP+ Cables
00VX114| AT2S| Lenovo 3m Active DAC SFP+ Cables
00VX117| AT2T| Lenovo 5m Active DAC SFP+ Cables
SFP28 25Gb Passive DAC Cables
7Z57A03557| AV1W| Lenovo 1m Passive 25G SFP28 DAC Cable
7Z57A03558| AV1X| Lenovo 3m Passive 25G SFP28 DAC Cable
7Z57A03559| AV1Y| Lenovo 5m Passive 25G SFP28 DAC Cable
QSFP28 100G-to-4x25G Ethernet Breakout Cables
7Z57A03564| AV22| Lenovo 1m 100G QSFP28 to 4x25G SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable
7Z57A03565| AV23| Lenovo 3m 100G QSFP28 to 4x25G SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable
7Z57A03566| AV24| Lenovo 5m 100G QSFP28 to 4x25G SFP28 Breakout DAC Cable

Features

Driven by the growing need for higher server bandwidth and storage capacity to support new and emerging applications (Machine Learning, HPC, Multi-node containers, NVMe, Web 2.0, NVMe storage disaggregation, HCI), enterprises, telcos and cloud providers are modernizing their data centers by adopting latest networking technologies, such as server virtualization and NVMe-oFTM. The resulting expansion in data volumes increases server-to-server traffic and CPU loads for networking tasks.
With its market-leading hardware acceleration technologies, the ThinkSystem Broadcom 57504 10/25GbE SFP28 4-port Ethernet Adapters addresses these performance and service demands of mega-scale data center networks with high throughput and advanced flow processing. Features such as TruFlowTM increase VM density up to 50 percent, freeing more CPU cycles for additional virtual machines. On-chip tunneling protocol processing for Geneve, VXLAN, and NVGRE provides up to a 5X throughput increase while lowering CPU utilization up to 90 percent compared to software-only solutions.
The adapters have the following features:

4x 25GbE network connectivity for high availability features eliminating throughput bottlenecks for data-intensive applications
Industry’s best performing and longest-reach 25G NRZ SerDes dramatically lowering TCO by reducing cable costs by 50% and doubling port density
PCIe 4.0 x16 support maximizing the full potential of servers compliant with the PCI Express® 4.0 specification, providing seamless interoperability and doubling server throughput while saving PCIe lanes
Third generation Broadcom TruFlowTM engine for intelligent flow processing to increase server VM density and accelerate vSwitch 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.
RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet), allows Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) traffic to be communicated over Converged Ethernet using DCB. GPU
Compute over RoCE enables scalable GPU clusters up to hundreds of nodes using Ethernet for HPC, AI, and ML applications.
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.
Broadcom adapters are the industry’s most secure PCIe Ethernet controller solution, leveraging Broadcom’s BroadSAFE® technology to provide unparalleled platform security via Silicon Root of Trust (RoT). Broadcom is the first Ethernet Adapter vendor to store authentication key and code in silicon to protect clients from maliciously modified firmware.
Broadcom’s TruManageTM enhances server manageability, network management, and security for data center deployments. TruManage supports widely deployed management standards including DMTF NC-SI, MCTP, PLDM, and SPDM specifications.
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).
Support for Data Center Bridging (DCB), including IEEE 802.1Qbb Priority based Flow Control (PFC) and 802.1Qaz Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS). DCB technology allows the device to provide lossless data delivery, prioritize low latency traffic, and share bandwidth among data center physical links.
In-band Network Telemetry features provide end-to-end real-time monitoring capability, enabling data center operators to fine tune their networks for maximum performance.

Specifications

The adapter has the following technical specifications:

Based on the Broadcom BCM57504 (4-port) controller
Supports 10/25Gb/s connectivity; other speeds currently not supported
PCIe 4.0 x16 host interface
Available adapter form factors:
- PCIe low profile form factor
- OCP 3.0 SFF form factor
Supports Message Signal Interrupt (MSI-X)
Interrupt coalescing
Four SFP28 external connectors supporting a transceiver, direct-attach copper (DAC) cable or active optical cable (AOC).
Network boot – PXE, UEFI
Support for PXE boot (iSCSI boot and Wake-on-LAN (WOL) are not supported)
Fully compliant with the SFF-8402 standard
Networking Features
- Jumbo frames (up to 9600-Byte)
- 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
Performance Features
- 100M Packet Per Second
- Low latency
- Bidirectional wire speed throughput
Stateless Offload Features
- TCP, UDP, IPv4, IPv6 checksum offloads
- Large Send Offload (LSO)
- Receive Segment Coalescing
- TCP Segmentation offload (TSO)
- Large Receive Offload (LRO)
- Generic Receive Offload (GRO)
- Receive Side Scaling (RSS)
- Transmit Side Scaling (TSS)
- Header-Payload Split
- Accelerated Received Flow Steering (aRFS)
Virtualization
- vSwitch Acceleration
- NetQueue, VMQueue, and Multiqueue
- PCI SIG SR-IOV compliant with support for 1024 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 stateless offloads
- Per Virtual Function (VF) statistics
- Virtual Ethernet Bridge (VEB)
- Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA)
- MAC/VLAN filtering and Mirroring
- VF Isolation, Source pruning, Anti-spoofing checks
- Stateless and packet steering offloads per VF
RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
- RoCEv2
- Data Center Bridging with RoCE
- Reliable Connection (RC) Queue Pair
- Unreliable Datagram (UD) 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 256 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
- GPU Direct RDMA
- MPI
Integrated Flow Processing
- Exact Match Flow Lookup
- Wildcard Match Flow Lookup
- VLAN insertion/deletion
- VLAN PRI Edits
- NAT/NAPT
- Tunnel Encapsulation/De-capsulation
- Flow tracking and aging
- Mirroring
- Metering
- Flow counters/statistics
- Custom tunnel header support
- Connection tracking
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 NC-SI, MCTP, PLDM, and SPDM specifications
- Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) MCTP/SMBus 2.0 and MCTP/PCIe VDM NC-SI 1.1 spec compliance, both
- NC-SI/RBT and NC-SI/MCTP supported
- PLDM Monitoring and control, Firmware Update, NIC Model
- SPDM 1.1 support for device attestation and firmware measurements
- NIC Inventory, Monitoring and Control
- Temperature reporting Out-Of-Band Firmware update
- Link and Media Management
- In-Band Network Telemetry
Power Saving
- ACPI compliant power management
- PCI Express Active State Power Management (ASPM)
- PCI Express eCLKREQ support
- PCI Express unused lane powered down

Server support

The following tables list the ThinkSystem servers that are compatible.
Table 5. Server support (Part 1 of 3) Lenovo ThinkSystem Broadcom 57504 10
25GbE SFP28 4-Port Ethernet Adapters fig 2 Table 7. Server support (Part 3 of 3)

Physical specifications

The PCIe adapter has 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 70 °C (-40 to 158 °F)
Humidity: 5 to 90% 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)

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/

Related product families
Product families related to this document are the following:

25 Gb Ethernet Connectivity
Ethernet Adapters

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