History of InfiniBand for Dummies
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.
!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.