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Will this 10Gb card work
Posted: 28 Dec 2013 21:28
by js@td-k.dk
HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 533FLR-T Adapter
I can´t find any info on it on either nas4free or freebsd documentation..
Re: Will this 10Gb card work
Posted: 28 Dec 2013 23:53
by 00Roush
Well that card appears to be based on the Broadcom BCM57810 chipset. I didn't see much information any where about FreeBSD support for that chipset. Broadcom's website does not list a FreeBSD driver so off hand I would say it is too new and is not directly supported in FreeBSD. However it could be that the chipset is similar to another supported chipset so it could work. Easiest way to find out is to just load up NAS4Free real quick.
There is another possible option if the card is not supported in FreeBSD and that would be to virtualize it. In looking at the card it sounds like it is used in the new Gen8 HP Proliant servers which I would think should support VMware ESXi 5.1 fairly well. Broadcom's website does list a VMware ESXi 5.1 driver. ESXi could be ran on the server and NAS4Free could be a VM. NIC could be passed to NAS4Free VM via VMXNET3. NAS4Free has ESXi 5.1 VMXNET3 driver builtin. Just make sure if you do end up doing virtual that you pass disk controller directly to NAS4Free (PCI/PCIe passthru) if you plan on doing ZFS. This is to ensure that ZFS has direct control of disks versus virtual layer in between that can mess things up.
00Roush