Good morning,
Sorry if this is a really dumb question, but I was wondering if it's possible to connect a mellanox 6036 switch to an ethernet switch? I have been trying to read through all the posts about the switches, and there is conflicting info.
I read that the 6036s have a VPI system which allows them to talk ethernet, but is that just local on the switch?
Ultimately my goal is to setup 2 switches:
1 6036 for IB (trying to get RDMA working) and maybe some high speed ethernet traffic. I want to get some cheap dual port connectX 3 cards (any recommendations?)
2 A switch that can maybe to 40g/10g/1g like an arista for the rest of the network, like my internet gateway, and PCs/devices that don't have access to extra connectivity and have to run at 1g.
I also want to setup several VLANs and other stuff to play with and learn L3 connectivity, which is why I was thinking those two switches if I can get them to talk to each other, as a lot of the VLANs would be for an ESXi cluster, and my NAS.
Any help/suggestions/warnings would awesome!
Thanks!
Sorry if this is a really dumb question, but I was wondering if it's possible to connect a mellanox 6036 switch to an ethernet switch? I have been trying to read through all the posts about the switches, and there is conflicting info.
I read that the 6036s have a VPI system which allows them to talk ethernet, but is that just local on the switch?
Ultimately my goal is to setup 2 switches:
1 6036 for IB (trying to get RDMA working) and maybe some high speed ethernet traffic. I want to get some cheap dual port connectX 3 cards (any recommendations?)
2 A switch that can maybe to 40g/10g/1g like an arista for the rest of the network, like my internet gateway, and PCs/devices that don't have access to extra connectivity and have to run at 1g.
I also want to setup several VLANs and other stuff to play with and learn L3 connectivity, which is why I was thinking those two switches if I can get them to talk to each other, as a lot of the VLANs would be for an ESXi cluster, and my NAS.
Any help/suggestions/warnings would awesome!
Thanks!