VM Passthrough of MHQH19B-XTR
I'm trying to passthrough a MHQH19B-XTR card to a Solaris 11.1 VM on VMware ESXi 5.1 but had no luck so far. The core problem, based on my research, is that the card cannot handle the Function Level...
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Re: OFED 2 SDP Support?? FYI OFED2 - ITS FASTER!
SDP Support has been deprecated by Mellanox.I believe OFA is supporting it still though.
View ArticleRe: Voltaire ISR-9024D (NOT -M) Question
Yeah, I'm not sure either. Out of curiosity, which firmware revision is on your switch? Asking because when I first got my 9024D-M switch (running firmware v0.8.6) and took out the fan, I'm "pretty...
View ArticleRe: Getting transceiver info in Linux
Hi Sorin, what hardware are you wanting to query against? eg what model/generation cards, etc (I don't know the answer to your question myself. Just more pointing out that it's easier for people to...
View ArticleRe: Voltaire ISR-9024D (NOT -M) Question
You know, that's a very good question about the firmware. I have no idea how to tell what firmware revision is on the switch, since it doesn't have a serial port and can't be telnetted/ssh'd into. Any...
View ArticleRe: Getting transceiver info in Linux
Hi Sorin, There is no available public tool to get the data about the HCA attached transceiver.You can use ibdiagnet2: ibdiagnet --get_cable_info The result will be logged to the ibdiagnet2.cables file
View ArticleEsxi drivers
Hi, Do you have any plans on updating the drivers for esxi version 5.1 u1?
View ArticleRe: layer3 BGP route numbers?
Thanks but with 4k routes for BGP, looks like I will still need my router upgrade :-( ha ha
View ArticleRe: OFED 2 SDP Support?? FYI OFED2 - ITS FASTER!
thanksyes after hours of going throug manuals i found that answer also.so will roll over to OFED driver.Thanks
View ArticleESOS SRP Target / SAN
hiis anyone else using ESOS for target San server?enterprise-storage-os - ESOS - An open source, high performance, block-level storage platform. - Google Project Hostin…good manual here for DRBD SAN...
View ArticleRe: OFED 2 SDP Support?? FYI OFED2 - ITS FASTER!
BTW, you may want to try Mellanox OFED 2.0 ipoib - the guys reports on very good numbers for ipoib-ud with very good stability. (for certain scenarios, ipoib-ud is now better then ipoib-CM) Check it...
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Re: OFED 2 SDP Support?? FYI OFED2 - ITS FASTER!
hiyes we tried ipoib in CM and UD modes, using ip drbd replication set to 20Gb/s but it only managed 200~300Mb/s.whereas using SRP with MDADM we can achieve 900Mb/s to 1400Mb/s easy! It was OFED 2 on...
View ArticleVmware ESXi 5.1 & ConnectX SRP Support
Hello everyone, I'm quite new and green to Infiniband technology. Setting up a lab environment at home, and before I run out and buy things, I need to make sure that it's going to work as I would like...
View ArticleReleasing Unstructured Data Accelerator 3.1
Hi,We are pleased to announce that UDA3.1 code is released.We are welcoming more use cases, please contact us for any help you might need, email us to: bigdata@mellanox.com UDA, Mellanox’s Unstructured...
View ArticleRe: OEM vs. Mellanox Infiniband HCA
Sounds like you're all set. I've been buying CX4 cables from that same seller on eBay, and found him/her to be very good. You might want to be careful of that specific item you're bidding on though,...
View ArticleRe: Mellanox (old Voltaire) ISR9024D-M recover flash area
I'm recerived another ISR9024D-M that works good... At first I'm connect to corrupted 9024D-M to new one then run the commandupdate remote-command and finished successfully. But console was not return....
View ArticleRe: Vmware ESXi 5.1 & ConnectX SRP Support
You'll probably want to read these: MHGH28-XTC firmware 2.9.1000 non-functional with ESXi 5.1?Re: Will there be ESXi 5.x driver support for ConnectX adapters? If your budget can stretch to the...
View ArticleRe: Mellanox (old Voltaire) ISR9024D-M recover flash area
What's the output from "help" by itself?
View ArticleRe: VM Passthrough of MHQH19B-XTR
Seems I'm using 1.8.0.0-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 according to "esxcli software vib list". @inbusiness what do you mean by "drop the direct path-through"?
View ArticleInfiniband Performance Analysis?
Are there any good resources that go more in depth into the analysis of tuning of the ConnectX3 FDR cards? Currently with ib_send_bw natively between the two adapters (connected directly / switchless)...
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