Looking for a possible future-proof network card

Jack0nlin3

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Dec 31, 2016
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I was wandering what would be the best NIC card (brand/model) in level of the following equipment we have...

32GB DDR4 ECC RAM
20GB WD red RAID10 by SAS 9260-8i
2GB Samsung SSD
With water cooled system and a reliable UPS

Main idea is to run a hypervisor with a bunch of VMs and containers over 1GB internet.

Also we do virtualization as much as possible so tuning, trunking, aggregating and etc. are definitely something we want to do with your possible suggestions behind a pfSence for public and local networks.

 
Solution
You could get a 10GE NIC. But much cheaper would be a 1 or 2 quad port 1GE NIC cards. Send those back to a switch and each VM could have a physical NIC (depending on how many VMs). Worst case 2 or 3 VMs share a NIC.