Provides the service you expect from it. Was inexpensive
No issues, dead simple on CentOS 7
I reviewed this once before and liked almost everything.
Plug and play, literally Very fast
I have a pretty high end ESXi5 server I built and I wanted to be able to separate the NICs for things like having different networks separated and this worked beautifully. If you want to setup a firewall on a VM and dedicate NICs to those networks, this works well.
Doesn't require any weird pro-grade server backplanes to connect, just a regular PCI Express slot If drivers are needed, they can be downloaded as a bundle beforehand and installed offline SFP+ ports accept a few varieties of transceiver, so you don't even need to replace your ethernet wiring to use this
Fantastic speeds, little CPU utilization.
- Easy setup. Used in OPNSense setup on a custom system. Recognized without issue.
This is a great bit of kit. The NICs weren't picked up by Win2008R2 by default, but there was a driver if you searched for it. I am able to completely max out all four ports on the card at the same time.