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InfiniBand for Dummies

Getting Started Tutorial for InfiniBand and Linux

Created by: spiderr, Last modification: 03 Jan 2018 (07:13 UTC) by spiderr
These are mostly my personal notes, culled from various holes on the Internet. I wish there was a basic "Noob's Guide to Networking beyond 1000BaseT (i.e. ye good ol' 1 Gigabit RJ-45 Jack.)

Hardware

Mellanox is the king of InfiniBand, though they are selling more Ethernet equipment than InfiniBand these days.

  • Gotcha ConnectX-2 Cards suck

Software

  • Gotcha Linux KVM virtualization only supports Ethernet bridging, thus you MUST use SR-IOV if you want InfiniBand in your Guest servers.
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