OCP 3.0: Dell QL41132HQCU (2*10Gb SFP) into a Lenovo SR635?

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Are OCP 3.0 interchangeable? they are normally very pricey, but I have that 1U Lenovo that is lovely but lacks pcie slots, and has the OCP 3.0 slot available...
These Dell are "reasonably" priced, but will they work? Not vendor locked?

 

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Just to reply to myself, as I googled around with no clear answer -- I ended up ordering one, and it works fine in my Lenovo SR635! Marked "proto" which is odd, but at around $80 (paid £66 inc vat) for 2x10Gb it is by far the cheapest I found.
Oh, remember to *enable* OCP in the BIOS -- it was disabled on mine and the card wouldn't show up. I might even have been the one to disable it in the first place but, hey oh

 

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Pretty limited set of options, compared to fancier cards. Note the lack of autoneg, however the card can't even downscale to 2.5 or 1Gbs so I supposed it is unnecessary?

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: QLogic Corp. FastLinQ QL41000 Series 10/25/40/50GbE Controller (rev 02)
01:00.1 Ethernet controller: QLogic Corp. FastLinQ QL41000 Series 10/25/40/50GbE Controller (rev 02)

# ethtool ens5f0
Settings for ens5f0:
    Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
    Supported link modes:   1000baseKX/Full
                            10000baseCR/Full
    Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
    Supports auto-negotiation: No
    Supported FEC modes: Not reported
    Advertised link modes:  10000baseCR/Full
    Advertised pause frame use: No
    Advertised auto-negotiation: No
    Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
    Link partner advertised link modes:  10000baseCR/Full
    Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
    Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: No
    Link partner advertised FEC modes: Not reported
    Speed: 10000Mb/s
    Duplex: Full
    Auto-negotiation: off
    Port: Direct Attach Copper
    PHYAD: 0
    Transceiver: internal
    Supports Wake-on: d
    Wake-on: d
        Current message level: 0x00000000 (0)
                             
    Link detected: yes

 

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Just to reply to myself, as I googled around with no clear answer -- I ended up ordering one, and it works fine in my Lenovo SR635! Marked "proto" which is odd, but at around $80 (paid £66 inc vat) for 2x10Gb it is by far the cheapest I found.
Oh, remember to *enable* OCP in the BIOS -- it was disabled on mine and the card wouldn't show up. I might even have been the one to disable it in the first place but, hey oh

Question if OCP was disabled in the BIOS how on earth did you have a network connection to the server in the first place? I don't think you can configure them without an OCP card from the factory as they don't have any onboard without an OCP card.

 

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Question if OCP was disabled in the BIOS how on earth did you have a network connection to the server in the first place? I don't think you can configure them without an OCP card from the factory as they don't have any onboard without an OCP card.

Pretty easily as it turns out, you can use the BMC connection remote console client to mount a "CD" Image and install linux. The BMC also appears as a USB ethernet adapter in linux, so you can use that too to kickstart the box...
I was well impressed with the BIOS/BMC on that machine, compared to other others I know (Dell and Asrock Rack)