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Additional network interfaces Dell R630

CobaltGroup — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 11:24:30 GMT

Hi all,

We are going to buy a Dell R630 for running Palo Alto VM100.

As this box has only a few standard broadcom interfaces on board, which NIC card would you recommend to more network ports.

4 Gigabit ethernet ports is sufficient in our case.

Some people claim that intel based NICs are not recommended?

Any advice is appreciated.

Kind Regards

Cobalt

Re: Additional network interfaces Dell R630

OtakarKlier — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 19:52:11 GMT

Hello,

The biggest question is what will you use the extra nics for? The default VM only has 3 interfaces with a total of 4, I think could be wrong in that version.

Regards,

Re: Additional network interfaces Dell R630

CobaltGroup — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 20:11:41 GMT

We have a rather large setup behind the firewall, so we will be using multiple split virtual wires, therefore I would require 8 interfaces

Re: Additional network interfaces Dell R630

OtakarKlier — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 20:16:43 GMT

Hello,

You wont get a full 8 since 1 has to be the Management interface. As forthe NIC card, I would use what ever the Hypervisor you plan on using will support. Also do you think a VM-100 is large enough capacity?

Regards,

Re: Additional network interfaces Dell R630

CobaltGroup — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 20:20:16 GMT

For the time being it's enough, as I'm doing a PoC for the customers, not everything is behind the firewall yet.

But since the device already failed twice during the PoC, I currently look a bit like an idiot with a bad product.

Hence my question if there was any preferred/recommended hardware, but avoid any potential issues in that domain.

Re: Additional network interfaces Dell R630

OtakarKlier — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 20:23:04 GMT

I'm guessing cost is the reason for the VM rather than a hardware model?

Re: Additional network interfaces Dell R630

CobaltGroup — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 20:25:37 GMT

Well cost is obviously always a reason, nevertheless a box is also a server in the end.

And after cycling through a few other brands, I can't say the hardware appliances are always that much more trustworthy 🙂

Re: Additional network interfaces Dell R630

OtakarKlier — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 20:30:42 GMT

I hear ya on the bad luck. However I have only had one PAN hardware fail on me in the past 8 years and that has been my lab PA-200. I would honeslty recomment like a PA-3220. Mainly because thats all it is and its a less complicated setup, e.g. no hypervisor or additional hardware. PAN's are pretty good especially their upper end models. Why not put them into A/P HA? THis way if one fails not everything goes down?

Re: Additional network interfaces Dell R630

CobaltGroup — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 20:33:21 GMT

Certainly something to consider once I can convince the customers 🙂

I'm not going to make that investment without knowing it actually works. Since I have stacks of servers anyways, the VM was the quickest en most cost efficient solution.

Re: Additional network interfaces Dell R630

OtakarKlier — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 20:35:01 GMT

You can always get the sales team to get you a 'try before you buy' model?

Re: Additional network interfaces Dell R630

CobaltGroup — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 20:37:00 GMT

True that, nevertheless there should not be a reason why a VM wouldnt work 🙂