Others may have more specific experience, but FWIW having 100GE of any make puts you ahead of a lot of deployments.
That said, I suspect that the Mellanox CX6 may be overkill unless you can leverage substantial offload. OCP lets you conserve scarce standard PCIe slots for other, future purposes, so I like to provision such mezzanine cards when possible. > On Jan 6, 2026, at 10:59 AM, ceph_elk via ceph-users <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > is there any specific proposal/measurement about good/bad 100G network cards ? > > We plan Dell Servers with Broadcom 57508 Dual Port 100GbE QSFP56, OCP NIC 3.0 > card but Nviadia is available too > NVIDIA ConnectX-6-Adapter, 2 Anschlüsse, 100 GbE QSFP56, OCP 3.0, mit Kabel > > Which one should be the ceph prefered one? > > Thanks in advance > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
