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I am currently running an Dell Poweredge R410, and loved it. However, it only has 2 x GiB Ports, and 1 x PCIe slot. This did not leave any room for expansion, or LAGG since the one available PCIe port is used for the JBOD card. Since I pretty regularly max out my NIC, I decided its time for an upgrade and I got an incredible deal on an Dell Poweredge R610, so I bought it. It has 4 x GiB LAN ports built in, and 2 x PCIe slots, so now I can do an 8 Port LAGG if I want to.
HOWEVER, It comes with a 4 port QLogic QLE2564 Fibre Channel HBA and as far as I know, a Fiber Channel HBA can`t be used as a fiber NIC. But this got me thinking rather than LAGG, maybe I can just do a Fiber NIC! Since I will now have an R410 for ESXI, I could put a 10GBE NIC in it, a 10GBE NIC in the R610, and connect them both to my 3comm 45000G, which only has 4GBE capability per GBIC, but this should be more than enough. The 3comm 4500G has a total network volume of 168GiB/s also,and only 24 x GiB ports, so no worries there.
This led me down the road of choosing a card, on a budget and needing to find real answers to the burning question: Does FreeNAS support Fiber NIC`s??? And if so, can I use a 4GB Cisco DS-SFP-FC4G-SW SFP in them, because thats what my switch will support???
Here are some choices since they are cheap:
HP 10GB MELLANOX CONNECTX-2 PCIe 10GBe ETHERNET NIC - http://www.ebay.com/itm/671798-001-...911062&hash=item51b840d586:g:x1IAAOSww~xZ0o-T
HP 595325-001 CN1000E Dual-Port 10GbE PCI-E Converged Network Adapter - http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-595325-0...511046&hash=item56a1da13dd:g:e3QAAOSw44BYeAIn
Do either of those look promising?
Thanks!
HOWEVER, It comes with a 4 port QLogic QLE2564 Fibre Channel HBA and as far as I know, a Fiber Channel HBA can`t be used as a fiber NIC. But this got me thinking rather than LAGG, maybe I can just do a Fiber NIC! Since I will now have an R410 for ESXI, I could put a 10GBE NIC in it, a 10GBE NIC in the R610, and connect them both to my 3comm 45000G, which only has 4GBE capability per GBIC, but this should be more than enough. The 3comm 4500G has a total network volume of 168GiB/s also,and only 24 x GiB ports, so no worries there.
This led me down the road of choosing a card, on a budget and needing to find real answers to the burning question: Does FreeNAS support Fiber NIC`s??? And if so, can I use a 4GB Cisco DS-SFP-FC4G-SW SFP in them, because thats what my switch will support???
Here are some choices since they are cheap:
HP 10GB MELLANOX CONNECTX-2 PCIe 10GBe ETHERNET NIC - http://www.ebay.com/itm/671798-001-...911062&hash=item51b840d586:g:x1IAAOSww~xZ0o-T
HP 595325-001 CN1000E Dual-Port 10GbE PCI-E Converged Network Adapter - http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-595325-0...511046&hash=item56a1da13dd:g:e3QAAOSw44BYeAIn
Do either of those look promising?
Thanks!
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