10GB or Quad Giga Bit?

[Steve Brown]

I know this might be a little over kill but I wanted input on this. I am guessing you need my specs before answering.

Motherboard: Supermicro X10SLH
CPU: Xeon V3 1230
RAM: 32 GB of ECC DDR3
SAS/SATA Expander: M1015 flashed to 9211 P20
HDD: 7x of 2TB WD RED SATA3(not like it matters for sata3)
NIC: Currently I have 10GB Chelsio card and its at 10 GB.
Switch supports 10GB with SFP which I am using a TWINAX cable.

Now my question is it better to go from 10GB to quad intel GB NIC and use LACP or have each jail on its own port?

I currently have 4 jails (plex, sabnzbd, couchpotato, sonarr) and a few shares that our local pc and laptops access. Also I might be looking at adding a few more jails. Maybe I just do both the 10GB and quad nic? I have the room for it on my switch.

 

[hugovsky]

have each jail on its own port

I don't think this is possible.

 

[Steve Brown]

Yeah you might be right. When I was reading the doc it said it was possible in 9.3 to assign a nic/interface but I am unable to uncheck VIMAGE to be able to do this. I am guessing this is because it was setup from the plugins. If I created my own jails I might be able to do this.

If I am not able to do this is it better to stay with 10GB or go to quad nic LACP?

 

[jgreco]

I don't think this is possible.

It is, but it involves a level of networking-fu well above average. Plus, to do it right, you're talking separate subnets.

In response to the OP, you've already got 10G. Just use it. Even if you have a quad Intel card, the 10G is much better. Unless you're actually managing to fill the 10G, the experience is much more pleasant just to go all 10G.

 

[Steve Brown]

Got it thanks for the input. I am not filling the 10G and until I do then I will revisit.

 

[hugovsky]

hugovsky said: ↑
I don't think this is possible.
It is, but it involves a level of networking-fu well above average. Plus, to do it right, you're talking separate subnets.

Thanks for explaining it.

 

[jgreco]

Also if your switch supports 10G then it probably has a pair of uplinks, use LACP and build a 20G link aggregation. Still nicer than quad 1G botchery.

 

[Steve Brown]

Yes it does have a pair of uplinks. I do have a dual SFP Chelsio card as well. Only thing is when I go to do LACP in FreeNAS its not giving me the option to select my Chelsio interfaces. See screenshots below.

 

[Steve Brown]

Those are my onboard NIC's on the motherboard that I do not use.