does freenas 11 support infiniband

Ryan_21

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Hi everybody

Im really interested in infiniband, and trying to use 40Gb but i dont want to go out and spend money on these cards only to find out they're not supported in freenas. Could you confirm whether infiniband cards will work on freenas and windows 10, and which are the best to go for and also if the ones ive found on ebay are any good (listed below). Plus if im trying to set up a peer to peer connection between two of the same cards, one in freenas and one in a windows 10 machine does it matter what DAC (Direct Attatch Copper) i buy as i was looking at fs.com and their are many variations with their guaranteed compatibility with a specific companies hardware and so i was wondering if that is neccessary and whether a QSFP+ cable would do off ebay (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/X6557-R6-QSFP-Data-SAS-Cable-0-5M/372626447924)

My options for QSFP+ cards are either of these could anybody suggest which has the best compatiability with both freenas and Windows 10:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FUJITSU-...SP-CARD-CA05954-1623-A3C40124123/253886430346
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-X-HP-I...RT-10-40GB-656090-001-649282-B21/283164827653
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/QLOGIC-Q...PCI-Express-PCI-E-Adapter-40GB-s/202236192837

Plus is it possible in freenas to use lacp with these types of cards in a peer to peer network - i.e. set it up like smb multichannel.

Many Thanks

Ryan
 

Chris Moore

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Very generally speaking, you could look here to see what hardware might be supported:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/hardware.html

However, FreeNAS is an appliance that is built from FreeBSD and they do 'cherry-pick' the things they want to include, so not all of the things in FreeBSD make it into FreeNAS and you can't treat FreeNAS as if it were FreeBSD with a web GUI. There are things that have been significantly modified.

I have seen other threads asking about infiniband and I don't recall any success stories. You might try a search though. I could have missed it.
Please post back here to let us know if you find anything.
 
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