I have been looking across many sources, to find a card that can do all of the following
- Have more than 2 x 10GbE in I/O capacity - interestingly there now are several [1]
- Use a chipset that is known for SR-IOV support (e.g. Intel 82599)
- Fit into a low profile card slot on a high density HP SL230s servers [2]
Now, while It seem that just recently, the vendor community indeed came up with one first card that can match that list, which seemingly is Niagara 32714L from Interface Masters [3].
Even if maybe not in this particular HP server: Did anyone here or at Intel ever see this (rather young) card actually running
* under Linux
* using SR-IOV
anywhere at all yet?
Of course additional information on running it in HP SL230s servers would be extremely useful (I would not ask here if had gotten a useful answer already elsewherey...)
[1] 10GbE - 40GbE - NICs offers a quite impressive overview on 10GbE and 40 GbE cards in all forms and fashions
[2] HP ProLiant SL230s Gen8 Server overview - HP Small & Medium Business products
[3] Niagara 32714L - Quad Port Fiber 10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC Low Profile PCI-e Server Adapter Card