How do I stay in IPoIB? need switch ? I had try to follow this InfiniBand install & config for vSphere 5.5 | Erik Bussink to install
OpenSM, everything seem to be install, but when I ran step
Setting MTU and Configuring OpenSM
After the reboot we have two more commands to pass.
esxcli...
I am still learning all this but tell me why do we need to do all this? is this going to update to latest firmware or just different type of firmware ? I got my card today and I was able to set both port at 40000MB. no update or any kind, I plug it in the ESXi host 6.0 it boot up and recognized...
well I found out something interesting. whin the ESXi 6.0 host if I do the iperf test. I can not break the 5GB
here is the loopback test
[root@ESXi-2:/vmfs/volumes/530b77a8-eb4863d0-5cbb-0010185a2572/iperf/iperf_2.0.2-4_amd64] time ./iperf -c127.0.0.1...
sorry if I beat a dead horse, but will this work with card below?
Mellanox ConnectX-2 VPI Dual-Port 40GB Adapter Card HCA-30024 700Ex2-Q.
I plan to use it with ESXi 6.0 between the two node for now. I assume it won't need to have switch in between
going to try to see if I can do it over this weekend, going to trash the vSAN, it is nice to have vSAN, but this is for home use I don't want to keep 3 server running in order for vSAN to work correctly. beside the 1GB network don't seem to work well with vSAN...
you are right I have too much cache, I had cache in VMDK disk, in OS and in ZFS... that may explain why I have my 30 second test run is so much faster then 120 second test run....
sorry if my post was not clear.
- LSI HBA in pass-through mode...
right now it not a pass through mode since I have other disk on there run vSAN which I am not too happy with the performance either due to the fact 1GB network. and it require me to have three server to stay up for the test. in...
my first post so go easy on me
I had download the Nap-it VM and install in ESXi 6.0 host running Dell Poweredge T320
CPU Xeon® E5-2420 v2 2.20GHz, 15M Cache
80 GB RAM
DELL Perc H310 flash to LSI IT firmware allow deep queue from 25 to 600
2 x WD Green WD40EZRX 4TB with modify head park from 8...
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