Hello,
I know this has probably been asked a thousand times before but I need some guidance from the experts in selecting a reliable and low cost quad port ethernet adapter. Which brand to choose? Which chipset?
Anyways, here's my requirements:
-Fully support virtualization (not sure which hypervisor yet, Im still researching on this... if you can recommend a totally free & good type 1 hypervisor, please do so! as of now, Im leaning toward proxmox, Xenserver or ESXi)
-Quad port
-Intel chipsets (this NIC will be used by a pfSense VM so Intel is a must)
-Support 1 Gbps
-Can (and with my price range will probably be) used
-Maximum $130USD
Other than that, knowing I intent to do virtualization, you probably know more than I do
My motherboard is a Supermicro H8DCL-iF with 3 PCIE 2.0 x8 slots available, and Im using dual Opterons 4334. I do not need more than 1 Gbps. Quite frankly, I could go for a dual port for now, but I figured a quad port NIC would give me some overhead for the future...
THe mobo has 2 ports. One for the IPMI platform, the other will be the WAN going to the pfsense VM. Then from the pfsense VM, one of the ports of the quad port controller will be the LAN, the other will be the main server VM's adapter, another will be a DMZ for pfsense, and the last one would be for future requirements....
Please dont hesitate to criticize this... Im VERY new to virtualization and to be honest, I havent wrapped my mind around it just yet... I may be wrong in my approach..
Looking forward to the replies from the pros!
Thanks!
I know this has probably been asked a thousand times before but I need some guidance from the experts in selecting a reliable and low cost quad port ethernet adapter. Which brand to choose? Which chipset?
Anyways, here's my requirements:
-Fully support virtualization (not sure which hypervisor yet, Im still researching on this... if you can recommend a totally free & good type 1 hypervisor, please do so! as of now, Im leaning toward proxmox, Xenserver or ESXi)
-Quad port
-Intel chipsets (this NIC will be used by a pfSense VM so Intel is a must)
-Support 1 Gbps
-Can (and with my price range will probably be) used
-Maximum $130USD
Other than that, knowing I intent to do virtualization, you probably know more than I do
My motherboard is a Supermicro H8DCL-iF with 3 PCIE 2.0 x8 slots available, and Im using dual Opterons 4334. I do not need more than 1 Gbps. Quite frankly, I could go for a dual port for now, but I figured a quad port NIC would give me some overhead for the future...
THe mobo has 2 ports. One for the IPMI platform, the other will be the WAN going to the pfsense VM. Then from the pfsense VM, one of the ports of the quad port controller will be the LAN, the other will be the main server VM's adapter, another will be a DMZ for pfsense, and the last one would be for future requirements....
Please dont hesitate to criticize this... Im VERY new to virtualization and to be honest, I havent wrapped my mind around it just yet... I may be wrong in my approach..
Looking forward to the replies from the pros!
Thanks!
Last edited: