[Gluster-users] working inifiniband HW ??

2013-07-08 Thread HL
Dear List, I am currently testing glusterfs on a small scale non-production env with ordinary nics. I would like to purchase a couple of inifiniband nics in order to connect 3 servers in point to point mode that is with no switches in between. Since I've noticed that some of you have this

Re: [Gluster-users] working inifiniband HW ??

2013-07-08 Thread Justin Clift
On 08/07/2013, at 10:20 AM, HL wrote: I am currently testing glusterfs on a small scale non-production env with ordinary nics. I would like to purchase a couple of inifiniband nics in order to connect 3 servers in point to point mode that is with no switches in between. Since I've

Re: [Gluster-users] working inifiniband HW ??

2013-07-08 Thread Harry Mangalam
I concur - I used the same cards on our test cluster - just make sure you upgrade the firmware to the latest revision: http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=custom_firmware_table The fw upgrade is not trivial - well, it IS trivial, but bringing all the info together was not - if you want

Re: [Gluster-users] working inifiniband HW ??

2013-07-08 Thread Justin Clift
On 08/07/2013, at 6:02 PM, Harry Mangalam wrote: I concur - I used the same cards on our test cluster - just make sure you upgrade the firmware to the latest revision: http://www.mellanox.com/content/pages.php?pg=custom_firmware_table The fw upgrade is not trivial - well, it IS trivial,