{"id":2568,"date":"2016-02-12T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T08:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2016-03-03T13:04:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T12:04:15","slug":"dells-10gbase-t-network-cards-on-intels-x540-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/2016\/02\/dells-10gbase-t-network-cards-on-intels-x540-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell&#8217;s 10gbase-t network cards on Intel&#8217;s x540 chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>we&#8217;re upgrading few servers at work to have 10gbit\/s connectivity. to keep things familiar i&#8217;ve decided to stick with [power hungry and latency-inducing] cat7 copper cabling and 10gbase-t. there are few dell poweredge r620 and r630 to be upgraded. currently those have proprietary broadcom-based daughter-cards with 4x 1000base-t ports. i preferred to replace them with another daughter card and not use regular pcie slots. i&#8217;ve spent a while googling and asking dell&#8217;s resellers about the right part number. <a href=\"http:\/\/accessories.euro.dell.com\/sna\/productdetail.aspx?c=uk&#038;l=en&#038;s=dhs&#038;cs=ukdhs1&#038;sku=540-bbhi\">540-bbhi<\/a> seemed to be the right device. it looked right:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/540-BBHIr1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2569\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/540-BBHIr1.jpg\" alt=\"540-BBHIr1\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/540-BBHIr1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/540-BBHIr1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>but the description saying it&#8217;s &#8216;The Intel Ethernet Server Adapter X540 DP 10GBASE-T showcases Intel&#8217;s 10BASE-T adapter in a <b>low-profile PCI form factor<\/b>&#8216; was confusing. to make it worst dell&#8217;s reseller told me this card will look like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/540-bbhi-reseller.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2570\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/540-bbhi-reseller.png\" alt=\"540-bbhi-reseller\" width=\"312\" height=\"336\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/540-bbhi-reseller.png 312w, https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/540-bbhi-reseller-279x300.png 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>oh well &#8211; i thought that in the worst case i&#8217;ll get regular pci-e cards, so i gambled. it turned out that the re-seller had an incorrect picture. 540-bbhi really is a daughter-card installed in dell&#8217;s proprietary port on the motherboard:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/540-bbhi-real.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2571\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/540-bbhi-real.jpg\" alt=\"540-bbhi-real\" width=\"600\" height=\"429\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/540-bbhi-real.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/540-bbhi-real-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>we&#8217;ve paired the cards with Dlink&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/us.dlink.com\/products\/business-solutions\/12-port-10gbase-t-web-smart-switch-including-2-sfp-ports-and-2-10gbase-tsfp-combo-ports\/\">DXS-1210-12TC<\/a> switch. we use the latest firmware &#8211; 1.10.015 &#8211; and are pretty unimpressed with stability of the web interface. after few days of up-time switch no longer allows login [although it does serve the login page], power off+on is the only solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we&#8217;re upgrading few servers at work to have 10gbit\/s connectivity. to keep things familiar i&#8217;ve decided to stick with [power hungry and latency-inducing] cat7 copper cabling and 10gbase-t. there are few dell poweredge r620 and r630 to be upgraded. currently those have proprietary broadcom-based daughter-cards with 4x 1000base-t ports. i preferred to replace them with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-unimportant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}