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Question regarding Quad Port PRO/1000 and DL 585 G2 server

Does anyone know which model fits or currently use the Intel Quad Port PRO/1000 NIC on DL 585 G2?

The DL 585 Slot1 and Slot2 are PCI - X 100MHz slots. Which model Quad Port fits in these ports? OR Have you placed them in the PCI - Ex4 or Ex8 slots?

I see 3 Quad Port Models: MT and PT and the Low Profile server adapters.

Please help.

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This Intel nic should work as well and is listed on the compatiblity list. I have it quoted for us in use for soon HP purchase.

Here's a list of the rest of the Intel line for you records for Gigabit speed in PCI-X form:

http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/server_adapters.htm?iid=prodmap_nc+server#s1=Giga...

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aguacero
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This Intel nic should work as well and is listed on the compatiblity list. I have it quoted for us in use for soon HP purchase.

Here's a list of the rest of the Intel line for you records for Gigabit speed in PCI-X form:

http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/server_adapters.htm?iid=prodmap_nc+server#s1=Giga...

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I use the HP supplied Intel quat ports. They are PCIe. HP NC364T PCIe 4Pt Gigabit Server Adptr 435508-B2

Here's the list of HP adapters (as listed in the HP Product Bulletin):

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Abaum

Fantastic info.

I will be ordering 2 Quad Port cards.

Did you place them in the 4x or 8x slots?

Ill have to place mine in the 8x slots, which I presume will give better performance?

Any tips or issues you can relay would be great for these cards.

Thanks!

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abaum
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I'm running in both the 4x and 8x slots. I have three cards in my servers: two in 8x and one in 4x, but I am only using the cards in the 8x right now. No cables are plugged into the third card at this time. I set my vswitches up to contain ports from both cards so I am not completely hosed if one card has a fatal malfunction.

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Question regarding pSwitches and the Quads.

How many Eth ports of the 2 quads to you have going to pSwitch1 and pSwitch2?

I was curious if its possible for 4 of the ports on Quad1 to goto pSwitch1 and 4 of the ports on Quad2 goto pSwitch2 for redundancy. (VM traffic)

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Is this not possible with ESX vSwitches to go to 2 diff. pSwitches and the pSwitches would handle re-routing if pSwitch1 goes down.

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I am going to go out on a limb and say that you can mix physical switches. The requirement would be a switch that supports this. If you remove VM from the mix, HP's NIC teaming can do with across switches that fully support 802.3ad (and then some). Here's a link: I've also read some Cisco documentation along the same lines.

Due to the capabilities of my network equipment, I keep all the ports used in a vswitch on the same physical switch. However, I currently have to vswitches configured for a different network. In effect, I have each quad going to both physical switches: 2 ports for one vswitch, 2 ports for the other.

2219_2219.bmp

Due to the way NICs enumerated, 0 and 9 are the onboard. 1-4 are on one card, 10-13 on the other.

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Those cards are actually PCI-E x1, so they will work in any slot, x1, x4 x8 but I don't think you'll get any faster speed out of them.

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abaum
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While they are PCIe v1 compliant, the cards are 4 lane (x4).

Check out the page title "Specifications".

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