Hello All!
I've got a Buffalo NAS with a built-in 10GBase-T port and two 1G Ports.
I've got a Dell 7040 with 48GB Memory, setup as an ESXi server.
I need to get a connection over 10G from the computer to the NAS which I'll set up like a SAN.
Here's where things get convoluted for me. Since I don't need a 10G switch at this point, I thought I would go with a crossover between the two machines and assign them each an IP from a different subnet than my normal home network.
The problem is, how do I do it while also thinking about future-proofing? I would think I'd go after a used SFP+ card with a 10G-BaseT RJ45 jack transceiver and be done with it, but I'm having a hard time figuring out which SFP+ cards are compatible with what 10G-BaseT RJ45 jack transceivers. I'm only looking at eBay sort of stuff because I don't have a ton of money for this.
I've also thought about just buying a standalone card that has 10GBaseT and an RJ45 jack, but then when I expand and do buy a switch, I'll have to either buy a 10GBaseT RJ45 transceiver for the switch or just ditch the card and buy an SFP+ card and likely go with DA copper. And from what I've found, the cards that are prebuilt with an RJ45 for UTP are not cheap, even used.
And then there's the whole issue (because I'm buying older stuff) with ESXi 7.0 compatibility.
All of that said, I'm sort of a neophyte with the 10 Gig stuff. I've been looking things over for about a week and finally decided that I likely would have saved a TON of time had I just ask my questions here. At any rate, suggestions, thought, opinions are VERY sought after.
Thanks for even reading this far, many thanks for any replies.
Joe
I've got a Buffalo NAS with a built-in 10GBase-T port and two 1G Ports.
I've got a Dell 7040 with 48GB Memory, setup as an ESXi server.
I need to get a connection over 10G from the computer to the NAS which I'll set up like a SAN.
Here's where things get convoluted for me. Since I don't need a 10G switch at this point, I thought I would go with a crossover between the two machines and assign them each an IP from a different subnet than my normal home network.
The problem is, how do I do it while also thinking about future-proofing? I would think I'd go after a used SFP+ card with a 10G-BaseT RJ45 jack transceiver and be done with it, but I'm having a hard time figuring out which SFP+ cards are compatible with what 10G-BaseT RJ45 jack transceivers. I'm only looking at eBay sort of stuff because I don't have a ton of money for this.
I've also thought about just buying a standalone card that has 10GBaseT and an RJ45 jack, but then when I expand and do buy a switch, I'll have to either buy a 10GBaseT RJ45 transceiver for the switch or just ditch the card and buy an SFP+ card and likely go with DA copper. And from what I've found, the cards that are prebuilt with an RJ45 for UTP are not cheap, even used.
And then there's the whole issue (because I'm buying older stuff) with ESXi 7.0 compatibility.
All of that said, I'm sort of a neophyte with the 10 Gig stuff. I've been looking things over for about a week and finally decided that I likely would have saved a TON of time had I just ask my questions here. At any rate, suggestions, thought, opinions are VERY sought after.
Thanks for even reading this far, many thanks for any replies.
Joe
