Since my Celestica switch is not working with Mellanox CX4's at 100G I am looking for alternative cards to use.
I could o/c switch to CX5's+ but those are still around $500/card which is a bit too much.
So I am looking for cheaper alternatives that will run with ESXi, and ideally is not too picky re DACs since I got a lot of Mellanox branded ones
I have seen the T62100-LP-CR - available for $400 (maybe $300 BO) at this time, that could work, but no idea re DAC compatibility.
I never looked further since I used to be happy with the MLX cards...
Edit:
Found this:
Meanderful: 100G Ethernet NICs - Broadcom joins Mellanox, Cavium's QLogic, and Chelsio
Edit2:
Broadcom uses QSFP56 on the Dual Port cards :/
100Gb Ethernet Network Adapters
I could o/c switch to CX5's+ but those are still around $500/card which is a bit too much.
So I am looking for cheaper alternatives that will run with ESXi, and ideally is not too picky re DACs since I got a lot of Mellanox branded ones
I have seen the T62100-LP-CR - available for $400 (maybe $300 BO) at this time, that could work, but no idea re DAC compatibility.
I never looked further since I used to be happy with the MLX cards...
Edit:
Found this:
Meanderful: 100G Ethernet NICs - Broadcom joins Mellanox, Cavium's QLogic, and Chelsio
Edit2:
Broadcom uses QSFP56 on the Dual Port cards :/
100Gb Ethernet Network Adapters
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