On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:34:02 -0600 Michael Robbert <mrobb...@mines.edu> wrote:
> Interesting note! The 7024 is our large switch where all the hosts are > connected, but I was told that we were sold the 7000D because the 7024 > didn't have a subnet manager. Unfortunately the 7000D has a different CLI > and that command is not available and I don't have the password for our 7024 > so I can't log onto it. > > On another note I just noticed the uptime on the 7000D is just over 1 day so > that must have been the start of the problem, but I have no idea why it > rebooted nor why it didn't come up working. I'm pretty sure we tested a > reboot of the device during acceptance testing. > > Oh, I just got your second note: > ================================== > BTW, I highly recommend running the opensm on a server instead of using the > sm on the switch. We found running the sm on the switch was much less > reliable. I also recommend using a server dedicated to opensm only. > ================================== I will second this. OpenSM has come a long way since the time Cisco was selling IB switches. If I understand your situation you don't even need the 7000D you could just remove it and run OpenSM on a "management" node. If you can afford it adding a node for OpenSM would be nice but I am not sure you _need_ it. OpenSM is now managing many of the largest IB networks out there, on a 288 node system it will have no problems at all "out of the box". :D Ira > I will take that into consideration, but we bought this as a "turn-key" > solution from Dell. They designed it and we had no experience with IB so we > trusted their knowledge. <snip> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
