proskater123 Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 So I have never had a fiber connection ran directly to a server and have some questions before we move forward with it. I have a dell r900 server that is hosting some virtual machines. Right now we have a single gigabit line running to it. At our datacenter we have the option to have fiber ran directly to our server. So we wanted to go forward with that to get a better connection. First off when I install the fiber card in the server will it configure just like a regular network card will or is there a special setup for it. Our server is running Centos 6 for the host OS. The second question I have is the selection of the card. I found a cheap QLogic card on ebay and was wondering if this is the correct card and is there a better alternitive that is under $200. Here is the link for that: http://www.ebay.com/itm/QLOGIC-QLE2460-4GBPS-PCI-E-FIBER-CHANNEL-HBA-SINGLE-PORT-DELL-POWEREDGE-R900-/121141432097?pt=US_Server_Disk_Controllers_RAID_Cards&hash=item1c34978f21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted August 1, 2013 Share Posted August 1, 2013 Usually they just set up as a standard nic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuardMoony Posted August 4, 2013 Share Posted August 4, 2013 Just make sure you got driver support for your card. For the rest it should be like a normal network card to setup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Here's a question, how fast is the fiber connection going to be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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