Broadcom or Intel network card support

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ghandalf

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Hello,

we are in the process of buying new hardware and to be on the safe side, I want to ask before we spent hundred-thousands of euro and then the network is not working.

We want to buy Dell servers and we have the choice between the following network cards (in total we want 6 ports, one OCP and one PCIe card):
  • Broadcom 57504 25G SFP28 Quad Port Adapter, OCP 3.0 NIC <- preferred one
  • Intel E810-XXVDA4 Quad Port 10/25GbE SFP28 Adapter, OCP NIC 3.0
  • Broadcom 57414 Dual Port 10/25GbE SFP28 Adapter, PCIe Low Profile, V2 <- also preferred
  • Intel E810-XXV Dual Port 10/25GbE SFP28 Adapter, PCIe Low Profile

I have read a lot in the forums the last several hours and I have seen a lot of firmware / driver issues with the Broadcom cards, so that server booting wasn't working anymore or that connection was lost and so on.
I have also read, that all was solved then with a firmware updates and / or disabling RDMA via niccli or blacklisting driver.

On the Intel side, there weren't much topics available, does this mean, they are better supported?
We just want ethernet connections, no RDMA or Infiniband or similar.

For switches, we probably want to go with Cisco Nexus again, as we have some of them already and they just work...

Just a side question:
Is the latest AMD generation already supported (5th Generation AMD EPYC™ 9005 series processor)?

Best regards
 
I use Intel NICs in production except for the 700-series on Dell servers without issues.

I do have Dell servers with Broadcom 1GbE which work fine but don't have having any 10/25GbE Broadcoms in production.

May want to ask your question on Reddit.
 
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