I am converting an X9SCM-f from Proxmox duties into a dedicated NAS. I had intended to run OpenIndiana Hipster on it, and got that installed a bit ago. I was pretty shocked to see that my ConnectX-2 10GBE adapter wasn't recognized, and after doing a bit of spelunking on the web, found this thread that basically says it doesn't work in Illumos. I'm pretty sure I've used one of these cards in Oracle Solaris before so I guess going back to that is an option - but I had wanted to stick with the free stuff as it seems to get better support these days.
I also have a spare dual port Chelsio N320E that I could try, but I don't see that on the HCL either. I'm willing to admit that I've gone cheap on 10GBE as it seemed that the cheap stuff was good enough before - Linux always ate up whatever I threw at it and performed pretty well!
Thoughts on what I should do? Has anybody gotten either of these boards to work with an Illumos system lately? I don't mind running Oracle Solaris if that's the path of least resistance - and I could buy another NIC if I should expect the support for my current NICs to get worse - but I'd rather not.
I do prefer to stick with Solaris for this task as I'm fond of the integrated ZFS+iSCSI stack. So I'm not really considering FreeBSD (including FreeNAS) or Linux for this.
I also have a spare dual port Chelsio N320E that I could try, but I don't see that on the HCL either. I'm willing to admit that I've gone cheap on 10GBE as it seemed that the cheap stuff was good enough before - Linux always ate up whatever I threw at it and performed pretty well!
Thoughts on what I should do? Has anybody gotten either of these boards to work with an Illumos system lately? I don't mind running Oracle Solaris if that's the path of least resistance - and I could buy another NIC if I should expect the support for my current NICs to get worse - but I'd rather not.
I do prefer to stick with Solaris for this task as I'm fond of the integrated ZFS+iSCSI stack. So I'm not really considering FreeBSD (including FreeNAS) or Linux for this.