10 Gb NIC ?

[DaveES]

Hello All !
I've been using freenas for a about three years, ... and knock on wood with out issue. Currently I'm using a X10SLM+-LN4F Supermicro Mobo with the 4 NICs bonded. I want to move the nas to a 10 Gb switch where the servers connect. All servers are using the 10Gb HP two port 530T NIC. Are these NICs compatible with freenas and if not what is?

Thanks

 

[kdragon75]

I'm fairly sure that's an Intel card and it should be supported. If you want a budeget option, look on fleabay for the Mellanox Connectx 2 cards. The only catch is that there SFP+ but the mods aren't that bad second hand as long as its not Cisco :D

 

[Chris Moore]

I have used this one sucessfully with FreeNAS:

Intel Corp X540T2 Converged Network Adapt T2
https://www.amazon.com/Intel-X540T2-Converged-Network-Adapt/dp/B0077CS9UM

It is possible that the HP card you linked to is using an Intel chipset which would make it fully compatible too, but I didn't find a quick answer to that.

 

[Elliot Dierksen]

It is possible that the HP card you linked to is using an Intel chipset which would make it fully compatible too, but I didn't find a quick answer to that.

I think the HP cards are really Mellanox ones, or at least they were a couple of years ago when I was trying to do that. At the time (FreeNAS 9.1) really didn't like the Mellanox cards. I think there is a driver for that now, but I have never used it for FreeNAS/FreeBSD. They worked ok with ESXi.

 

[DaveES]

I have used this one sucessfully with FreeNAS:

Intel Corp X540T2 Converged Network Adapt T2
https://www.amazon.com/Intel-X540T2-Converged-Network-Adapt/dp/B0077CS9UM

It is possible that the HP card you linked to is using an Intel chipset which would make it fully compatible too, but I didn't find a quick answer to that.

Thanks Chris !