Minimum 4 NICs, if physical NIC redundancy is not required.
Ribbon recommends using SR-IOV with 10 Gbps interfaces (e.g., x540/82599/x710). Although SR-IOV is supported on 1 Gbps, the 10 Gbps interfaces provide better throughput.
- Cisco VIC
- Intel E810
- Intel I350
- Intel x540
- Intel x550
- Intel x710
- Intel 82599
- Mellanox Connect - 4x
- Mellanox Connect - 5x
NOTES:
- Use the latest firmware for the specific NIC corresponding to the hardware platform.
- Make sure NICs have multi-queue support which enhances network performance by allowing RX and TX queues to scale with the number of CPUs on multi-processor systems.
- The VMware Enterprise Plus license is required for SR-IOV.
- You can use vmxnet3 (as 1G interfaces) in VMware for for mgt and HA ports.