Charles Rhoades
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I want to setup 10Gig peer to peer between my NAS and two Win10 Clients. I'm planning on using the following EN NICS, all Mellanox: MCX312A-XCBT Dual Port (NAS) & MCX311A-XCAT Single Port (Clients) with Cisco SFP-H10GB-CU5M Cables. I tried using Chelsio cards, but there isn't a Win10 Client driver that I could find, so they've been returned. Mellanox has Win10 and FreeBSD drivers.
I cannot find instructions on how to set this up in FreeNAS 11.1. My MB has 2x Intel i210 built-in ethernet ports, which I'm connecting to my home router via Cat 6A, and I access FreeNAS via the web interface from either of the two Win10 clients. FreeNAS does not list these in the Network - Interface screen, but I could add either using the Add Interface button where igb0 & igb1 are included in the drop down. In the Network - Network Summary page it indicates the following:
Name IPv4 Address IPv6 Address
igb0 192.168.1.131/24
Nameserver
192.168.1.1
Default route
192.168.1.1
My plan is to physically mount the MCX312A dual port card in the NAS, and then a MCX311A single port card in one of the Win10 clients, and connect an SFP+ cable between them...then boot up both devices. I have a pretty good idea on setting up the Win10 client, but questions about the FreeNAS setup. I don't plan on disabling the Intel i210 interfaces since they provide the FreeNAS web interface.
- do I have to now add the i210 interfaces to the Network - Interface page (or not since they work now without) or should I do that before physically installing the 10gig card, and then add the 10gig interface ports to the Network - Interface page after physical installation?
- how do I setup the IP addressing for the Mellanox ports?
- how do I setup the Mellanox ports without interfering with the web access IP addressing?
- how do I setup the Mellanox ports to use the MTU 9000 (Jumbo Frames) setting?
- do I have to add static routes for all 4 ports?
- how do I setup each client as Users for the peer to peer connections in FreeNAS?
Once I have the first connection working, repeat the process for the other Win10 client.
My plan is to use the 10gig connections for the data handling, and the 1gig connection for FreeNAS system management. The NAS is used exclusively for backup purposes...each of the clients have daily backups of over 1TB and the data handling over the 1gig network is unacceptably slow, lengthy, and can sometimes interfere with the actual backup processes.
Clear and concise instructions would be greatly appreciated, as I am really not more than knowledgeable at the User level, certainly not an expert on clients nor FreeNAS.
My configuration:
FreeNAS 11.1 U5
ASRock Rack E3C226D2I
Xeon E3-1231 v3
16GB ECC Ram
6X Seagate 4TB NAS HDD (ST4000VN000) in RAID Z2
I cannot find instructions on how to set this up in FreeNAS 11.1. My MB has 2x Intel i210 built-in ethernet ports, which I'm connecting to my home router via Cat 6A, and I access FreeNAS via the web interface from either of the two Win10 clients. FreeNAS does not list these in the Network - Interface screen, but I could add either using the Add Interface button where igb0 & igb1 are included in the drop down. In the Network - Network Summary page it indicates the following:
Name IPv4 Address IPv6 Address
igb0 192.168.1.131/24
Nameserver
192.168.1.1
Default route
192.168.1.1
My plan is to physically mount the MCX312A dual port card in the NAS, and then a MCX311A single port card in one of the Win10 clients, and connect an SFP+ cable between them...then boot up both devices. I have a pretty good idea on setting up the Win10 client, but questions about the FreeNAS setup. I don't plan on disabling the Intel i210 interfaces since they provide the FreeNAS web interface.
- do I have to now add the i210 interfaces to the Network - Interface page (or not since they work now without) or should I do that before physically installing the 10gig card, and then add the 10gig interface ports to the Network - Interface page after physical installation?
- how do I setup the IP addressing for the Mellanox ports?
- how do I setup the Mellanox ports without interfering with the web access IP addressing?
- how do I setup the Mellanox ports to use the MTU 9000 (Jumbo Frames) setting?
- do I have to add static routes for all 4 ports?
- how do I setup each client as Users for the peer to peer connections in FreeNAS?
Once I have the first connection working, repeat the process for the other Win10 client.
My plan is to use the 10gig connections for the data handling, and the 1gig connection for FreeNAS system management. The NAS is used exclusively for backup purposes...each of the clients have daily backups of over 1TB and the data handling over the 1gig network is unacceptably slow, lengthy, and can sometimes interfere with the actual backup processes.
Clear and concise instructions would be greatly appreciated, as I am really not more than knowledgeable at the User level, certainly not an expert on clients nor FreeNAS.
My configuration:
FreeNAS 11.1 U5
ASRock Rack E3C226D2I
Xeon E3-1231 v3
16GB ECC Ram
6X Seagate 4TB NAS HDD (ST4000VN000) in RAID Z2