[olug] 10 gig pci express network card?

[Shawn Mattingly]

Fyi, the CX4 standard is copper (coax cable I think) over very short
distances.  There is a new standard for 10GbaseT over twisted pair which
should be showing up in NICs soon (it was ratified last June) so you
might want to look out for that. 

Sun has a 10G NIC
<http://www.sun.com/products/networking/ethernet/10gigethernet/index.xml>

Shawn

neal rauhauser wrote:
>  The servers in question are going to be running opensolaris afs/zfs and the
> 10 gig link is for synchronization and stuff. Their interface to the clients
> will be just gigabit until we overrun that, at which time we'll go 10 gig,
> buy switches, etc.
>
>   This is very, very helpful.
>
>
> On 8/28/07, Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:
>   
>> neal rauhauser wrote:
>>     
>>>   Have any of you guys installed 10 gig PCI express ethernet? Which card
>>>       
>> did
>>     
>>> you use? Any complaints? This is going to be for replication between two
>>>       
>> SAN
>>     
>>> boxes and the customer prefers Intel ... I see the Intel and Neteiron
>>>       
>> have
>>     
>>> cards, but I'm having a heck of a time finding pricing. Is this stuff
>>>       
>> really
>>     
>>> that new?
>>>       
>> Fiber or copper?
>>
>> Intel's web site doesn't show any PCI express (AKA PCI-E) 10G ethernet
>> cards, only PCI-X (aka 64-bit PCI @ 133MHz). They make PCI-E quad
>> gigabit tho', not exactly what your client is looking for.
>>
>> I see buy.com carries the PXLA8591CX4 (PCI-X copper 10G) for just a
>> little bit south of $1k US. The PXLA8591SR (sort range fiber) and
>> PXLA8591LR (long range fiber) are ~$3k US and $5.5k US.
>>
>> 10G ethernet to servers is pretty cutting-edge, with very few interface
>> cards on the market; most of it is hard to find. Most 10G stuff I see is
>> switch<->switch.
>>
>> There are a few other cards available:
>> SuperMicro AOC-NXB-10GCX4 & AOC-NXB-10GXSR
>> Chelsio products like the N310E-CX
>>
>> The SuperMicro cards use the NetXen 10G controllers.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Phil Brutsche
>> phil at brutsche.us
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