My old Connect-X2 cards are starting to show their age. I last used them with 6.0, and life was good. Infiniband worked (once I ripped out the VMware drivers and installed the 1.8 drivers), Ethernet mode worked, everything just did what I thought it would. Well, that was then. This is now. 6.7 is the new hotness, and I'm trying to get back into the VMware game.
I understand that Infiniband support on ESXi is basically non-existent for these old cards. That's fine, I can live with 10GbE... Except I can't for the life of me figure out how to get these jerks to light up. Is there a way to switch the ports on the card between IB and EN mode? Why do some of my cards have one port detected and others have two? Do I have to do something fancy with OpenSM in order to get the (unmanaged) switch to support EN mode?
edit: Wait a minute. I'm used to using IPoIB, aren't I? Can't do Ethernet without an Ethernet switch. Doh.
I understand that Infiniband support on ESXi is basically non-existent for these old cards. That's fine, I can live with 10GbE... Except I can't for the life of me figure out how to get these jerks to light up. Is there a way to switch the ports on the card between IB and EN mode? Why do some of my cards have one port detected and others have two? Do I have to do something fancy with OpenSM in order to get the (unmanaged) switch to support EN mode?
edit: Wait a minute. I'm used to using IPoIB, aren't I? Can't do Ethernet without an Ethernet switch. Doh.
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