[OmniOS-discuss] Illumos and Infiniband

[David Bomba]

Hi Chris,

We have an environment running OmniOS with both ConnectX and ConnectX-2
cards. The Hermon and Tavor drivers work very well.

The only problem we had was that the CX-2 cards would only sync at 20gb/s.
We export Comstar iSER targets and they have been rock solid for us for
over a year.

Dave


On 30 January 2014 05:38, Chris Zembower <zembower at criterion.com> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to dig up some information on Illumos (or Solaris)
> compatibility with the Mellanox ConnectX-3 VPI HCA. From what I can gather,
> the Hermon driver (for 1st-gen ConnectX) may work with this hardware with
> tweaking, but I can't seem to confirm that.
>
> OmniOS is my server OS of choice (I have several systems running), but the
> necessity of a working IB fabric here has led me to implement a ZFS on
> Linux box for this particular purpose. I'm currently using LIO/targetcli to
> export block SRP targets, and I'm not happy with it at all. Really wishing
> I had Comstar for this.
>
> Anyone here using IB with OmniOS? Anyone aware of a roadmap or active
> development of new IB drivers? Why isn't there an Illumos OFED port
> happening? No interest? It's thriving on the Linux side of the world...
>
> Please don't lecture me on the merits of 10GbE/FC over Infiniband, I've
> heard it all. :-)
>
> Any insights or suggestions are very much appreciated!
>
> Best,
> Chris
>
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