Hi Marc,
Currently we serve three disparate infiniband fabrics with three
separate sets of NSD servers all connected via FC to backend storage.
I was exploring the idea of flipping that on its head and having one set
of NSD servers but would like something akin to Lustre LNET routers to
connect each fabric to the back-end NSD servers over IB. I know there's
IB routers out there now but I'm quite drawn to the idea of a GPFS
equivalent of Lustre LNET routers, having used them in the past.
I suppose I could always smush some extra HCAs in the NSD servers and do
it that way but that got really ugly when I started factoring in
omnipath. Something like an LNET router would also be useful for GNR
users who would like to present to both an IB and an OmniPath fabric
over RDMA.
-Aaron
On 9/12/16 10:48 AM, Marc A Kaplan wrote:
Perhaps if you clearly describe what equipment and connections you have
in place and what you're trying to accomplish, someone on this board can
propose a solution.
In principle, it's always possible to insert proxies/routers to "fake"
any two endpoints into "believing" they are communicating directly.
From: Aaron Knister <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Date: 09/11/2016 08:01 PM
Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] GPFS Routers
Sent by: [email protected]
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After some googling around, I wonder if perhaps what I'm thinking of was
an I/O forwarding layer that I understood was being developed for x86_64
type machines rather than some type of GPFS protocol router or proxy.
-Aaron
On 9/11/16 5:02 PM, Knister, Aaron S. (GSFC-606.2)[COMPUTER SCIENCE
CORP] wrote:
Hi Everyone,
A while back I seem to recall hearing about a mechanism being developed
that would function similarly to Lustre's LNET routers and effectively
allow a single set of NSD servers to talk to multiple RDMA fabrics
without requiring the NSD servers to have infiniband interfaces on each
RDMA fabric. Rather, one would have a set of GPFS gateway nodes on each
fabric that would in effect proxy the RDMA requests to the NSD server.
Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Just curious if it's still on
the roadmap.
-Aaron
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