Re: Omnios + RSF-1 + Inifiniband
David I assume you have dual port IB cards. You should:- connect the IB card with both switches- define per subnet a pkey (we have default and 4 pkeys from 60 to 63)Example for partition.conf:#...
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Re: Mellanox ConnectX-3 Ethernet Card.
Hi,1. I suggest you start with the MLNX_OFED or MLNX_EN User Manual located on Mellanox web. Mellanox Products: Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution for Linux (MLNX_OFED) 2. I suggest you also...
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Re: I have two MCQH29-XDR mezzannie cards in different servers, that suddenly...
Hi Will, it does sound like a bad card or a a bad slot to me, I believe that in live fish mode the card should be identified in Device manager, and also with MFT only as "SDR" or "Recovery Mode" Here's...
View ArticleRe: Designing for high availability
Hi, If you're planning to use GPFS over RDMA you'll most likely have to use IPoIB as the upper layer interface. IPoIB can use the standard linux bonding driver with an active/passive configuration, as...
View ArticleRe: Designing for high availability
I'am familiar with Infiniband, GPFS and RDMA is a single switch environment. This is straightforward and you can define your IPoIB interfaces as bond to fail over when individual links fail. I have...
View ArticleRe: Infiniband for Mellanox Technologies MT25204
which firmware update version did you use? Thanks.
View ArticleRe: Omnios + RSF-1 + Inifiniband
Hi, thanks for the help, I will give it a go when I'm back at work next week, off for Easter now You are correct, using a dual port card. Again thanks for the information and that you are using...
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How to connect Xbox with Cisco Router
My landlord provides me with internet through use of his wireless Cisco router. I live in an apartment above his business so he has a secondary network set up for our use. I have an xbox slim (wifi...
View ArticleMellanox Messaging Library RPM
Is there an archive of the mxm RPMs available? We are trying to find a copy of the mxm RPM that is compatible with CentOS 4.4. We need to compile OpenMPI with MXM on a system running CentOS 4.4. Thank...
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Re: Mellanox Messaging Library RPM
CentOS 4.4?? any chance you had a typo and you are looking for CentOS 5.4?
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No, unfortunately it is CentOS 4.4. This is an old cluster we are using to run a numerical model.
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Currently, MXM does not support CentOS 4.4 but 5.x+What OFED version do you use on that cluster? we will try to build rpm for your setup once info is provided.
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Thank you for your help. Here are the versions of everything we have:OFED-1.2ofa_kernel-1.2ofa_user-1.2ofed_1_2and for openmpi:openmpi-1.2.2-1
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mxm supports OMPI 1.6 and later. (and 64bit archs only).OMPI 1.2 is way old, as well as ofed 1.2.can you consider upgrade your system to latest?
View ArticleUFM hostname change DNS
Does UFM use DNS or IP to communicate with the switches? Thanks in advance
View ArticleRe: UFM hostname change DNS
There are 2 layers of communication For inband communication and statistics UFM sends standard MADs and receives specific InfiniBand traps in return. For management purposes, Mellanox switches have an...
View ArticleRe: mst.sys driver error
Is there anyone that can help with my follow up query?We have another server that started reporting the same issue and had the file appear on it last week, after that the server started crashing...
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OpenStack JUNO
Hi, I'm Vincenzo Greco and I've installed in my company OpenStack(Juno) with 5 compute node, 1 network node, 1 controller node and 1 storage node using CentOS 7. All node have Infiniband and they work...
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Re: Can I mix 10GigE and IB on an ESXi (v5.1 u1) host?
Hi! I have a same problems and give up it now!Because there is a compatibility issue on core driver.Both IB and ETH require Mellanox core driver, but difference in version and compatibility. If...
View ArticleRe: Port 1 IB Port 2 Ethernet - ESXI 5.1 (5.5)
HI! Everybody!I found ESXi MFT tools has s change port mode capability. But it can be support ConnectX-3 or above only. There is nothing to do for 2nd port ethernet function with 1.8.2.4 VPI driver. I...
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