SX1016 trunked to a Brocade SX800
Hi Everyone, Thought i would ask question here to see if anyone has seen this before or give me some more pointers. So i have a SX1016 configured with a port channel trunk to a Brocade SX800 On the...
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Ok, it appears that the 2.9 firmware is not playing nice with the ConnectX cards in ESXi servers. It is resulting in the "IB_Timeout" and "mkey incorrectly set" errors. That explains the results by...
View ArticleRe: ConnectX-2: mlx4_en: Port: 1, invalid mac burned: 0x0, quiting
Time for a dumb question from my side: the ib ports go into an "HP 4X QDR InfiniBand Switch Module for c-Class BladeSystem" (part number 489184-B21). Since I haven't seen any mention in the switch's...
View ArticleRe: SX1016 trunked to a Brocade SX800
Hi Rob,I am not sure what is causing this. I would probably suggest opening a support ticket with the support group.mailto://support@mellanox.com Thanks
View ArticleRe: ConnectX-2: mlx4_en: Port: 1, invalid mac burned: 0x0, quiting
The HP blade switch is not a VPI switch and therefore only work with IB. In one of my previous posts I recommended on on using connectx_port_config tool to configure the card to the right mode. There...
View ArticleRe: ConnectX-2: mlx4_en: Port: 1, invalid mac burned: 0x0, quiting
Yeah, sounds like you'd better run the cards with IPoIB instead of native Ethernet mode, else the switches won't talk to them. For the speed difference, I kind of wonder if the SDP change toggled...
View ArticleRe: ConnectX-2: mlx4_en: Port: 1, invalid mac burned: 0x0, quiting
Runtime value is stored and can be changed in sysfs, it's either datagram or connected# cat /sys/class/net/ib0/modeconnected # echo datagram > /sys/class/net/ib0/mode
View ArticleRe: ConnectX-2: mlx4_en: Port: 1, invalid mac burned: 0x0, quiting
and also (persistently) with /etc/infiniband/openib.con
View ArticleFeasibility of using Connect_X3 in HP SL230c
I am trying to get some insights on how to maximize I/O performance bexond 2x10 GbE per server for HP SL230c servers. Since one 10GbE leg will be tied to a storage network, and since I expect to have...
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Benchmarks - Your help is requested.
Objective To get together some (non-sales fluff enhanced) real home benchmarks for Infiniband equipment based around known or standard parameters. With these figures and the information provided in...
View ArticleRe: Benchmarks - Your help is requested.
definitely #1 all times topic! Thank you posting. Working years with InfiniBand, people had/have such a strong highway and not always using it the right way (slow car, bad driver, bad weather...
View ArticleRe: MCQH29-XDR firmware for RDMA
Hi, I noticed that for all your original (non OEM) Connectx-2 cards the available firmware only goes up to 2.9.1000 and hence will not support SMB3.0 over RDMA. Connectx-2 Firmware Download List I only...
View ArticleRe: SR-IOV on ESXi 5.1
Hi vanceitc,Please contact Mellanox support for roadmap and availability. I don't have this information.I suggest to use option #b, until we have #c ready for public usage.
View ArticleRe: Suggestions for *quiet* Infiniband switch?
I just bought the 9024D the fan that it comes with has a normal and turbo mode. Normal is 50% and turbo is full. This switch is also designed to run fanless so I removed the fan module and it runs very...
View ArticleRe: Benchmarks - Your help is requested.
Seems you and I are going to have fun beating up things . I'm in.
View ArticleRe: Suggestions for *quiet* Infiniband switch?
Thanks, good to know. Note - wish it was possible to mark more than one answer as correct. Several correct answers in here now.
View ArticleRe: Feasibility of using Connect_X3 in HP SL230c
Let me see if I can help you here: a) Is any of the Connect_X3 cards low Profile enough to fit and work in HP SL230c servers?Yes, see next note from HP websiteb) If yes, is it the single 1G/10G/40G, or...
View ArticleRe: Feasibility of using Connect_X3 in HP SL230c
One more thing, we do have this document that has some performance and configuration information: http://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/whitepapers/wp_mellanox_openstack_solution.pdf
View ArticleRe: SX1016 trunked to a Brocade SX800
Rob,In general Untagged traffic is mapped to default vlan. My personal best practice rule is to keep all uplink ports as tagged and server ports as hybrid. Is there a reason you are using hybrid ports...
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Re: SX1016 trunked to a Brocade SX800
Hi Anand, Yes. I agree with you 100% on that one. At the moment we are using the default vlan for specific switch traffic but the plan is to move this out to a vlan. Currently the switch is connected...
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