Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-30 Thread Matthew Lagoe
Sure was a few years ago when we deployed all our stuff and back then the sfp+ stuff was ridiculous -Original Message- From: Doug Hughes [mailto:d...@will.to] Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2015 09:04 AM To: Matthew Lagoe Cc: 'omnios-discuss' Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or pre

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-29 Thread Doug Hughes
On 3/29/2015 9:51 AM, Matthew Lagoe wrote: The intel cards are nice but they don't have any cx4 cards so we don't use them. Copper connections have less latency on short links then fiber as you don't have the electric to optical conversion (when done properly) Do yourself a huge favor and go t

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-29 Thread Schweiss, Chip
Behalf Of Richard Elling > Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 07:40 AM > To: Doug Hughes > Cc: omnios-discuss > Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS > > > > On Mar 26, 2015, at 9:24 AM, Doug Hughes wrote: > > > > any recommendation

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-29 Thread Matthew Lagoe
os-discuss-boun...@lists.omniti.com] On Behalf Of Richard Elling Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 07:40 AM To: Doug Hughes Cc: omnios-discuss Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS > On Mar 26, 2015, at 9:24 AM, Doug Hughes wrote: > > any recommendations? We&#

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-28 Thread Richard Elling
> On Mar 26, 2015, at 9:24 AM, Doug Hughes wrote: > > 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. > > Intel? Chelsio? other? I've been running exclusively

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-26 Thread Stephan Budach
9:25 AM *To:* omnios-discuss *Subject:* [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS 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

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-26 Thread Phil Harman
boun...@lists.omniti.com] On > Behalf Of Doug Hughes > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 9:25 AM > To: omnios-discuss > Subject: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS > > any recommendations? We're having some pretty big problems with the > Solarflare ca

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-26 Thread Matthew Lagoe
I use the myricom 10g cards (myri10g) they work just fine. From: OmniOS-discuss [mailto:omnios-discuss-boun...@lists.omniti.com] On Behalf Of Doug Hughes Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 09:25 AM To: omnios-discuss Subject: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS any

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-26 Thread Dan McDonald
Generally speaking the Intel ones are preferable, because Intel does the best job of keeping those drivers up to date for all open-source platforms. Just pushed into illumos, and coming soon to r151014 is OPEN-SOURCE support for Broadcom NetXtreme II (now owned by QLogic) 10GigE (the "bnxe" dri

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-26 Thread Greg Mason
On Mar 26, 2015, at 12:24 PM, Doug Hughes wrote: > > 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. > > Intel? Chelsio? other? I’ve had a pretty good experien

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-26 Thread Doug Hughes
Regarding X520 and SFP+.. We tend to use Amphenol. Do those work ok? On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Doug Hughes wrote: > Thanks guys! (also, if anybody has some advice or contrary experience with > SolarFlare (5162), I'd love to hear it. Right now they are pretty much > unusable under load,

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-26 Thread Doug Hughes
Thanks guys! (also, if anybody has some advice or contrary experience with SolarFlare (5162), I'd love to hear it. Right now they are pretty much unusable under load, though iperf tends to work fine. On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Schweiss, Chip wrote: > The Intel X520's and the Supermicro

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-26 Thread Jeff Stockett
...@lists.omniti.com] On Behalf Of Doug Hughes Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 9:25 AM To: omnios-discuss Subject: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS any recommendations? We're having some pretty big problems with the Solarflare card and driver dropping network under high loa

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-26 Thread Schweiss, Chip
The Intel X520's and the Supermicro equivalents are rock solid. The X540 probably is too, I just haven't used it. I prefer the Supermicro branded Intel cards because the firmware is not as picky about the twin-ax cables used. -Chip On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Doug Hughes wrote: > any

[OmniOS-discuss] best or preferred 10g card for OmniOS

2015-03-26 Thread Doug Hughes
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. Intel? Chelsio? other? - Doug___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list OmniOS-discu