Dell Broadcom 57414 Dual-Port 25GbE SFP28 PCIe Adapter

The Dell Broadcom 57414 Dual-Port 25GbE SFP28 PCIe Adapter (Dell part number 540-BBUJ) is a factory-certified network interface card engineered for Dell PowerEdge servers, delivering dual-port 25 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity over SFP28 optical or direct-attach copper (DAC) cabling. Built on Broadcom's BCM57414 NetXtreme-E silicon, the adapter combines a PCIe Gen 3 x8 host interface with hardware-accelerated offloads including TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO), Large Receive Offload (LRO), RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE v2), and SR-IOV support for up to 64 virtual functions per port, making it well suited for virtualized and containerized environments that demand low-latency, high-throughput networking.

The 57414 supports stateless offloads that reduce CPU overhead for network processing, freeing host compute resources for application workloads. Its RoCE v2 implementation enables lossless, kernel-bypass communication between nodes, which is particularly valuable in storage, HPC, and AI/ML clustering scenarios. The adapter integrates with Dell OpenManage for lifecycle management, iDRAC for out-of-band monitoring, and is compatible with Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and VMware vSphere hypervisor environments.

As a factory-integrated option for the Dell PowerEdge server platform, the 57414 undergoes Dell's full hardware validation and qualification process, ensuring firmware and driver compatibility across the PowerEdge portfolio including generations 14G and 15G. The adapter's low-profile form factor and PCIe Gen 3 x8 electrical interface allow it to be seated in standard half-height PCIe slots, while its dual SFP28 cage design supports both 10GbE and 25GbE link speeds, providing a degree of infrastructure flexibility as data center network fabrics evolve.

Ideal for

• High-density VMware vSphere or KVM virtualization hosts requiring SR-IOV-based network isolation across multiple virtual machines without sacrificing throughput
• Hyper-converged infrastructure nodes running software-defined storage (e.g., VMware vSAN, Red Hat Ceph) where low-latency RoCE v2 fabric interconnects accelerate east-west storage traffic
• AI and machine learning training clusters needing RDMA-capable adapters to minimize communication overhead between GPU nodes during distributed workloads
• Enterprise database servers (Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server) demanding consistent low-latency network I/O and TCP offload to reduce host CPU utilization during peak transaction loads
• Private cloud and OpenStack deployments where SR-IOV virtual functions allow tenant workloads direct, isolated access to physical network hardware
• Data center network refresh projects upgrading PowerEdge server fleets from 10GbE to 25GbE to increase bandwidth density without replacing the host server chassis

Technical specifications

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