10G NIC HCL for Proxmox 9.0.3

[bravo0916]

Hello Team,

There might have HCL for Proxmox, but I have not found them so far. Thus, please allow me to ask about this here.
I am planning to install 10G NIC on version 9.0.3. I would like to know which vendor or chipset is compatible for this version.

Thank you for your time and support all the time.

Regards,

 

[weehooey-bh]

Proxmox does not publish hardware compatibility lists (HCL).

Under the hood, Proxmox products are Debian. If the NIC will work with Debian, it will work with Proxmox products.

We have found that Intel is a very reliable network interface card manufacturer.

 

[bravo0916]

Hi weehooey-bh,

Thank you so much for your feedback. I understood that I just need to refer to Debian HCL. BTW, please just let me know about URL if you have it already.
No worry if you don't know. I will try to find it out later.

Thank you.

 

[weehooey-bh]

Hi @bravo0916

Sorry, I gave you an incomplete answer. PVE is based on Debian with a Ubuntu kernel. There isn’t a Debian HCL but there is some compatibility information available from Ubuntu.

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[MarkusKo]

For supported hardware use the Ubuntu HCL, PVE9 uses Debian 13 Userspace but a modified Ubuntu 6.14 Kernel

 

[bravo0916]

Hello all,

Thanks for your quick resopnse and support! I tried to take a look at Ubuntu HCL site, but I didn't find NIC device list. There are "Desktop, Server, iOT, etc".
The page contains NIC HW list?

 

[weehooey-bh]

@bravo0916 Not sure. What I can tell you is if you are going to find some information about capability, Ubuntu is the place you will find it.

 

[bravo0916]

Yes, that's more makes sense!

Thanks.

 

[MarkusKo]

In general Broadcom NIC's seem to work quite well with PVE (disable RDMA)

Some Intel NIC's seem to have stability issues with Kernels higher than 6.8 (disable offloading!), not just the cheap onboard but even some 10G PCIe cards (X550?)

Not sure about Nvidia/Mellanox NIC's, have not heard much about them, either no one uses them or they just work so well that nobody has issues with them?

 

[bravo0916]

Hi MarkusKo,

Thanks for your feedback. I agree with it. Also, the chipset of Broadcom SFP+ is not so heat that I heard. I will try to find Broadcom SFP+ NIC.