Hello everyone,

I'm new to unraid so sorry if my questions seem stupid.

 

I recently build an unraid server.

I plan to virtualize Pfsense on this server. To do this I want to buy a network card. As I'm eligible to multigigabit internet throught FTTH and as I have an SSD array, I want to buy a 10 Gb/s card. I already have a 10G switch with RJ45 and SFP+.

 

So I would like to buy the Silicom PE310G4SPI9L wich is a 4 SFP+ 10Gb/s NIC.

I can see it's based on 2 X Intel 82599ES, wich seem to have linux driver

 

So here are my questions :

1. Can someone confirm this card would be compatible with unraid ? Do you know if this is plug and play or how am I supposed to install those driver ? Trhough CLI ?
2. As this card is based on 2 Intel 82599ES, does someone know if I can passthrought only some of the SFP+ ports to a VM ? I would like to pass 2 ports to my Pfsense VM and keep the 2 other SFP+ ports for Unraid, using IOMMU.

 

Thanks a lot fot your answer

Maybe this question should be moved to the hardware section ?