Dell PowerEdge M610 Technical Manual

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DellDell PowerEdge M610 Technical Guide 2410 Embedded NICs/LAN on Motherboard (LOM)10.1 OverviewThe Dell™ PowerEdge™ M610 planar has two embedded Broadcom® 5709S dual-port LAN controllers asindependent Gigabit Ethernet interface devices. The following information details the features of theLAN devices:• x4 PCI Express Gen2 capable interface (M610 operates this controller at Gen1 speed )• Integrated MAC and PHY• 3072x18 Byte context memory• 64 KB receive buffer• TOE (TCP Offload Engine)• RDMA controller (RNIC)• NC-SI (Network Controller-Sideband Interface) connection for manageability• Wake-On-LAN (WOL)• PXE 2.0 remote boot• iSCSI boot• IPv4 and IPv6 support• Bare metal deployment support• ISCSI offload accelerator used for offloading ISCSI traffic as an ISCSI accelerator/HBA(optionally enabled through a hardware key)The embedded NICs are not sharable with iDRAC since the blade iDRAC has a dedicated 100 Mbps link(Fabric D).10.2 Platform Networking LAN on Motherboard (LOM) TechnologyOverviewThe PowerEdge M610 has two Ethernet ports because it includes two built-in dual-port 1GbEconverged networking (CNIC) LOMs based on Broadcom 5709 controllers. The M610 supports multiplefunctions over a unified fabric to help manage Ethernet, iSCSI, and remote management traffic oneach port simultaneously.Enterprise networks that use multiple protocols and multiple network fabrics benefit from theBroadcom C-NICs LOMs’ ability to combine network traffic, storage, and clustering over a singleEthernet fabric by boosting server processor performance and memory utilization while alleviatingI/O bottlenecks.Each BCM5709S LOM provides dual 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet functions, an IEEE802.3-compliant media access controller (MAC), and a UTP copper physical layer transceiver solution forhigh-performance network applications. It enables simultaneous convergence of all networkedcommunications possible in a server, such as data network (LAN), storage network (such as block,iSCSI, or file [for example, CIFS/NFS]), and clustering (such as High-Performance Computing [HPC]).