perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Garhan Attebury <>]

We have upwards of 56 of the single port version of that card in production 
at HCC right now (SFN5152F). One of our perfsonar instances 
(hcc-ps02.unl.edu) uses one of these cards just to tie it in with perfsonar.

Cost seems to be amongst the lowest, and their linux utilities (for RHEL at 
least) have been just fine for updating the firmwares and toggling PXE on 
(off by default). 

Zero complaints and zero problems so far, other than they ship with full 
height brackets by default and I just got done having to swap to the included 
half-height as we added them to 48x Dell R720xd servers … my fingers did 
survive though :)


Garhan Attebury
Holland Computing Center
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
402-472-7761


On Sep 19, 2014, at 2:54 PM, Kathy Benninger 
<>
 wrote:

> Does anyone have experience with Solarflare 10GbE adapters?
> 
> The model I'm considering is SFN5162F.
> 
> Thanks!
> Kathy