Hi all,
I'm a bit puzzled by the current situation with Mellanox drivers for VMware ESXi. It looks like SRP support is all dusted and won't be developed anymore. Pity, but fine, as long as iSER is there, right?
However, it looks like 2.x packages lack iSER support as well (regardless of where you look, either under VPI or ETH drivers section). IPoIB is there though.
The 1.9.x packages do include iSER support, but, on the other hand, they lack IPoIB. Which means you can use iSER only in ETH mode.
So, what's the direction? Which drivers is one supposed to use to get iSER (read: fast RDMA storage) work over IB? Are we all supposed to upgrade to the newest Connect-X4 and switches just because they have the same speed both for IB and ETH? What about those people who have FDR IB but only 40GBE or have only IB capable switches?
What I do personally is using 1.8.3 beta for iSER and 1.8.2 for SRP, even with the latest versions of ESXi 6.0. Luckily, they still work, although unsupported, but, the moment they break, what am I supposed to do?
Thanks!