Question on support for Intel X520-DA2 (82599 ES) dual 10GbE ethernet adaptor and the LAMP system.

Hello!

I am considering using the TurnKeyLinux LAMP server as a loadgenerator in a physical high spec server and run the Apache Bencmark tests from it and out against a large number of virtual machines (also running the same LAMP system) on a Scale HC3 infrastructure.

The question I have is if there is support for the 82599 chip on the X520-DA2 card in the TurnKey Linux LAMP ISO? If not will the appropriate driver be loaded during installation provided the card is in place in the server?

The load generator is a 16core 48GB SuperMicro machine with an Intel 64GB SLC SSD as the OS disk pushing the web load across the (teamed) dual 10GbE optical IP ports.

Will this work you think? Just wanted to check before I trash the current OS being installed at the server...

Please advice.

Cheers,

///peo

Replies (5)

Thanks

Reply 1 2014-02-08

Jeremy, I will try and report back to you.

///peo

Hmmm

Reply 2 2014-02-17

That is a disappointment. The further research I have done suggests that the driver module that your NIC requires is ixgbe and that the version of the ixgbe module provided with 3.2.x kernel (the kernel in Debian Wheezy/TKL v13.x) should support your NIC OOTB.

Without having the hardware available to test I'm not sure what else I can do... I did find a few posts saying that performance was not quite as good as would be hoped but I couldn't find anybody else having an issue of it not working at all... I assume that you are using the v13.0 release (and not the v12.1 release)!?

Sorry I'm not too much help really...

Nop did not work out of the box.

Reply 3 2014-02-15

Hi Jeremy, just a quick heads up on this thread: I tried to create the LAMP CD, install it on the LOADGEN physical machine, it did install perfectly fine, but the OS did not recognize the Intel 10GbE cards.

Cheers,

///peo

I think it should work...

Reply 4 2014-02-07

This Debian bug report says that it doesn't work with Squeeze, however the last post states that Wheezy (i.e. Debian 7 - what TKL v13 is based on) does support it.

But you could always run it live and see how it goes...

Many Thanks Jeremy

Reply 5 2014-02-17

No worries, I will have another go at this later, just run out of time at this point. Your comment is encouraging, and I will try once more. Currently I have 32x LAMP's virtualized on the Scale HC3 effortlessly humming away :-)