FreeNAS with fiber channel cards QLogic QLE2560-CK – 8Gb

[mst]

Experts,

I have 4 x QLogic QLE2560-CK – 8Gb and wonder if I can use them with Freenas + QLogic 8GB HBA Host BUS Adapter Quad Port Fibre PCI-E QLE2564CK w/4 Transceivers.
My plan is use 4 port card with 3 ESX hosts each one has QLE2560-CK – 8Gb - is that going to work with freenas ? Or better would be to use ISCSI instead of this?
ANy opinions?

 

[kdragon75]

FreeNAS does not support FC but TrueNAS does. Both are based on FreeBSD and as such the underlying bits are there. I wrote a guide that might still work with FreeNAS 12. Try searching.

 

[kdragon75]

Just a heads up, ESXi will mark any FC or iSCSI based datastore with only one path as degraded.

 

[mst]

I see Fiber will be problematic any 10GB quad card so I can connect 3xESX host to FreeNas or I have to use 10Gb switch?

 

[mst]

anybody used Mikrotik 10GB SFP+ switch? I wonder what card I can use so FreeNAS and ESX can recognize

 

[kdragon75]

Fiber is fine. If your doing direct ports and don't mind manually editing ctld.conf. With iSCSI and multiple hosts, you will want a switch. The mikotik should be fine. As for NICs, almost any Intel based cars should be fine. Just search the forum and check the VMware HCL.