<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>SFPs? Are you know kidding me? For my home lab I bought a pair of X540-T2 cards, which will even run over Cat5 for about a metre. They use a lot more power than SFP though :)<br></div><div><br></div><div>No issues at all with illumos or VMware.</div><div><br>On 26 Mar 2015, at 16:45, Jeff Stockett <<a href="mailto:jstockett@molalla.com">jstockett@molalla.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I would concur with what Chip said. We’ve had good luck with the Intel X520s setup with LACP to a Nexus 5000 – and also have a few X540s. The X520s are a
bit picky about SFPs but Appoved makes one that works and is reasonably affordable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> OmniOS-discuss [<a href="mailto:omnios-discuss-bounces@lists.omniti.com">mailto:omnios-discuss-bounces@lists.omniti.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Doug Hughes<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 26, 2015 9:25 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> omnios-discuss<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">any recommendations? We're having some pretty big problems with the Solarflare card and driver dropping network under high load. We eliminated LACP as a culprit, and the switch.<br>
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Intel? Chelsio? other?<br>
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- Doug<o:p></o:p></p>
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