Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for 10 gigabit NICs on CentOS8

2021-02-09 Thread Laurence Horrocks-Barlow via CentOS
I believe connectx2 work using the plus kernel, however look for a connectx 3 or 4 either native Ethernet (EN) or a VPI variant, these will be 40Gb and you can use a qsfp to sfp+ convertor, or 40Gb transceiver (auto negotiated to 10Gb). You can change the port profile using mellanox tools or edi

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for 10 gigabit NICs on CentOS8

2021-02-08 Thread Victor Padro
They work, had a NAS running SMB and NFS serving to a couple ESX for backups using a dual port Connect-X. The ones that have their issues are mostly the VPI/IB models which need to be reflashed to the ethernet firmware, on servethehome's forums there's plenty info about this. On Sun, Feb 7, 2021,

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for 10 gigabit NICs on CentOS8

2021-02-08 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 2/7/21 3:55 AM, Strahil Nikolov via CentOS wrote: Hi All, can you share what kind of old NICs do you use on CentOS 8 (Stream or not , it doesn't matter) without any issues? I was looking at ebay and I found some pretty old Mellanox "ConnectX" or "ConnectX-2" but I seriously doubt they will

[CentOS] Recommendation for 10 gigabit NICs on CentOS8

2021-02-07 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Hi All, can you share what kind of old NICs do you use on CentOS 8 (Stream or not , it doesn't matter) without any issues? I was looking at ebay and I found some pretty old Mellanox "ConnectX" or "ConnectX-2" but I seriously doubt they will work on CentOS 8. Any proposals are also welcome. I do