Chelsio T6225-SO-CR 10/25Gb NICs

[Brian Stretch]

Has anyone tried these in FreeNAS yet?
http://www.chelsio.com/nic/unified-wire-adapters/t6225-so-cr/
They're on the FreeBSD Supported Devices list but the FreeBSD drivers on Chelsio's website that support this card are current marked beta. The price premium over the T520-SO-CR isn't too bad so I'm tempted. I'm planning to direct connect to a couple of ESXi hosts running identical cards and Chelsio optics. They're going in production servers. I figure since I'm not replacing our 1Gb switch I can splurge a bit on the cards. Thanks!

 

[Brian Stretch]

FWIW, these cards do work with FreeNAS 11. We accidentally plugged it into a PCIe slot that's only x4 electrically so I can't give you relevant performance stats but it's plug-and-play. FreeNAS 9 didn't have driver support at the time and I haven't checked since. We used Chelsio 25Gb DACs to connect to our two ESXi hosts.