I need to buy 5x QSFP-QSFP passive 2m cables. I have mellanox cards and a mellanox switch. The prescribed parts are very expensive and rare in the used bin, but there are much cheaper 2m cables from NetApp that are QSFP-QSFP.
So, in the infiniband world, are all QSFP cables equally compatible? Or, must I buy something that is explicitely Mellanox compatible because each vendor is doing their own thing?
No idea how this in the infiniband world, I know that this would not be a consideration in the ethernet world - there a 2M ethernet full duplex Cat-6 cable is good from any vendor - as there is one standard only.
Any insights here would be good.
So, in the infiniband world, are all QSFP cables equally compatible? Or, must I buy something that is explicitely Mellanox compatible because each vendor is doing their own thing?
No idea how this in the infiniband world, I know that this would not be a consideration in the ethernet world - there a 2M ethernet full duplex Cat-6 cable is good from any vendor - as there is one standard only.
Any insights here would be good.