Installing the Infiniband Switch
Installing Infiniband switch in a SuperMicro SBE-710E Our current infrastructure relies completely on iSCSI for our storage solution. As such, we have dual gigabit switch modules in our bladecenter....
View ArticleWhy We Chose InfiniBand Instead of 10GigE
For years we have successfully connected all of our blade centers to our storage area networks using 1GigE. Each time we needed more bandwidth, we simply added more networking ports. For our ZFS Build...
View ArticleGetting InfiniBand to work
The title of this post says it all. How to get Infiniband to work properly. We have had a roller coaster of fun trying to get the InfiniBand network up and running properly. From the headache of...
View ArticleInitial InfiniBand Performance Testing
We’ve gotten the InfiniBand network mostly up and running, and have been doing some performance tests with the included WinOF InfiniBand performance tools. Needless to say the results are nothing less...
View ArticleZFSBuild2012 – More testing tidbits
So – just a quick update – we got Infiniband SRP (SCSI RDMA Protocol) working from our Windows system to our Nexenta system. Here’s a screengrab from IOMeter beating the crap out of our 20Gbit...
View ArticleZFSBuild2012 – Still running InfiniBand SRP Benchmarks 32k Random Read
We are still running the IOMeter benchmarks using the new ZFSBuild2012 server and InfiniBand SRP. The numbers we are seeing with SRP are absolutely awesome. For example, right now it is running a 32k...
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