Hi Irena, Will you provide drivers for 12.04 as well? And does it support SR-IOV?
Thanks, -Vladimir Zadara Storage On Dec 29, 2012, at 10:41 PM, Irena Berezovsky <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > We are going to provide a Cinder patch to enable iSER in the next few days, > it will allow users 5x faster bandwidth compared to using iSCSI TCP. > The coming OFED 2.0 version (in couple of months) will allow Eth emulation > over IPoIB (called eIPoIB). If you want early access to it you can contact me > or [email protected]. > It will also include SR-IOV support allowing RDMA access and low-latency > access from guest VMs. > We are planning to publish a Mellanox Quantum plug-in soon that will allow > simple integration with our InfiniBand and Ethernet hardware (and will have > SR-IOV and NIC based IO Virtualization as part of it) > > I hope this helps. In case you need more details, please drop me an email. > BR, > Irena > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Narayan Desai > Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2012 4:09 PM > To: changliwei07 > Cc: openstack > Subject: Re: [Openstack] How to Solve InfinitBand Adaptor Driver under Ubuntu > 12.04? > > We're using IB (QDR connectX and connectX2) on our system. It turns out that > the drivers included in version 3.2 of the linux kernel are fine. I've built > a ppa for updated management tools though; all of those bits are ancient in > precise. The ppa is here: > > http://launchpad.net/~narayan-desai/+archive/infiniband > > One word of warning; you'll only be able to use IPOIB for connectivity > between the hypervisor nodes and the openstack service nodes; getting to VMs > requires full ethernet compatibility, which IPOIB doesn't provide. You will > be able to use the IPOIB for fast image transfers and really fast volume > storage if you have it. Turning on iSER helps a lot with volume bandwidth, > but requires a patch to nova compute. > -nld > > On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 7:03 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> Merry Christmas ! >> Have you even tried to use infinitband network in OpenStack base on >> Ubuntu 12.04? >> In recent two days, I want to use IPoIB in Ubuntu, but the big >> problem is the driver of IB, The OFED src is special for enterprise >> distribution only, such as (RHEL and SLES ), even the so called source >> code archive is a rpmbuild-tree-like structure. Then the question is >> how to solve the driver problem in ubuntu 12.04. >> ________________________________ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
