Intel 10-Gigabit-Dual-Port-Server-Adapter XF SR (EXPX9502AFXSR)

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I need your help with this network card please - because I have never used this pro-cards in the past.

What I want to do is two of this card install in my both OmniOS Servers only for backup. I found in HCL the driver for OmniOS but I don't now can I connect both network cards directly without a switch.
What kind of LWL-cable I need? Crossover?

Hope you understand my bad English and what I want to know.

 

[Patrick]

Do you have this card already? I might suggest using a X520 card at this point if possible since it is considerably newer.

 

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Hi Patrick,
no I don't have this cards here at the moment. I want to buy them from ebay for 80 Euro per card. The x520 price is here > 230 Euro.
Yes I know that this card is EOL - for the server farms but this if for me @home.
I use one server for all my files and once a week I replicate this pool to my backup-server.

 

[Patrick]

How are import duties for you? 230 Euro seems 3x or more what we are paying for dual port X520's.

X520's are 2009 cards and I think they only support PCIe 2.0. The point is that there are tons of these cards on ebay.

I am just thinking that having SFP+ would be easier for you since that is the very popular interface. Also, I would imagine power consumption wise it would be better. Intel X520-DA2's use about 50% more power for dual 10GbE than Intel XL710-QDA2 cards do with dual 40GbE and DACs. That is a 2009 v. 2014 difference.

I believe the XF's are even older which also means from a support perspective they are not going to get the same attention as the X520's get.

 

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UK is no problem, US I dont know.
You are right, look at ebay-germany:
Intel X520-DA2 | eBay
and I need the transceiver too.

And here STANDARD PROFILE Intel 10GbE XF SR2 Dual-Port 2x 10GbE-LAN XFP PCIe x8 | eBay
incl the transceiver.

 

[MiniKnight]

That card was EOL'd in 2013. I think the point above is that driver support later may not be great.