I plan on initially having a cluster of 2 hosts running ESXi, with a ICX6610 switch as the backbone. On each host, I will be using a single 40GbE port for vSAN and vMotion traffic on separate vLANs and trunk it to a port on the switch. The LAN port will be connected to the SFP+ ports.
I’m looking to pick up a Mellanox ConnectX-3 NIC for the 40GbE port. I can’t seem to find the PRO model (to support RoCE v2) for a decent price, so will a ConnectX-3 non-pro be sufficient for this? Will I benefit from RoCE v2 in any way or will RoCE v1 be good enough?
pfsense, freenas, and about a dozen other VMs will be on this cluster. Just wanted to confirm this setup and hardware will all work correctly before I purchase the switch and NICs.
I’m looking to pick up a Mellanox ConnectX-3 NIC for the 40GbE port. I can’t seem to find the PRO model (to support RoCE v2) for a decent price, so will a ConnectX-3 non-pro be sufficient for this? Will I benefit from RoCE v2 in any way or will RoCE v1 be good enough?
pfsense, freenas, and about a dozen other VMs will be on this cluster. Just wanted to confirm this setup and hardware will all work correctly before I purchase the switch and NICs.