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stratolynne
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What NIC in an R805 for new vSphere functionality?

We're putting together a procurement list for networking hardware. We need to know what NIC card(s) can be added into a Dell R805 to be able to do the vSphere functionality of the group move of the VMs for HA (I know I don't have the name quite right but I hope you can get the idea). Any ideas, pointers, assistance anyone can provide would be great.

Thanks!

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mbaar
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Hi,

you can check this in the HCL

The best choice for ESX Servers is an Intel NIC, 1GBit or 10GBit.

The Broadcom NIC's with the Lates Firmware is ok, older have problems with TCP Offload, Jumbo Frames, Linux Guests etc.

reagrds

Marco

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