Infiniband. And what to buy.

[dztrbd]

I was looking at network speeds and reading and trying to understand how LAGG works. My original understanding was wrong. I was under the impression they actually joined the speed to make it faster but alas. No dice. So I was looking at 10GBe but the price of that is wow. So I was looking for other options and found infiniband.



Most of the options were even more ridiculously priced. I found this one http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00B...qid=1387784448&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70 or this on http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002X7OZBS/ref=pd_aw_sbs_4?pi=SL500_SS115and was hoping if any one knew whether or not it would work. I also wanted to know if I need a switch as well or if I could do point to point. I.e Main PC to NAS or do I need a switch in there.

Thanks again for the help. Looking forward to the responses.




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[cyberjock]

Per the manual there is no infiniband support. You'll need to get 10Gb LAN to get higher speeds. :(

 

[dztrbd]

I thought I read somewhere that someone had hacked it in to work. If I remember correctly it worked in free bsd 9.1.

Found the link http://acadix.biz/infiniband.php. is this still in dev or has it progressed to use able now?

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[cyberjock]

Not sure I saw anyone hack it to work. Just because FreeBSD supports it doesn't mean FreeNAS does. Search the manual for "infiniband" and you'll get a comment like "the following is not supported in FreeNAS: Inifiniband....

 

[dztrbd]

Thanks for the help. Yeah I saw the manual and realized the official not supported. But thought maybe some one had got a specific card to work.

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[Lordadmiral Drake]

And what about Fibrechannel? Or is this for storage systems only?