Re: New to infiniband, can't get a working connection.
As a thought... I'm pretty sure someone on this site mentioned, that they'd gotten um... the windows 7 (?) drivers to load in Win2012, and they "worked perfectly". Maybe give that a shot?
View ArticleQUES: Infiniband loopback on a single Win7 host possible?
I have a basic question: is it possible to configure Infiniband on a single Win7 host using a port-to-port loopback (not an internal loopback) on a single dual port card (HP OEM ConnectX-2 VPI QDR)?...
View ArticleHow to read /proc/interrupts?
Hello, when I have a look at our Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Kernel 3.5) /proc/interrupts output I see several interrupts for the installed ConnectX infiniband card: 73: 999+ 999+ 999+ 999+ ... mlx4-ib-1-0@PCI...
View ArticleLink up delay above QDR switches..
I was experienced with DDR IB switch first time. My second switch is 4036 QDR switch. But there is a link-up delay almost 20 seconds in vSphere 5.x environments. I want to start some VMs with auto...
View ArticleRe: VMWare ESXi 5.1 + MNEH28-XTC ConnectX issue?
Hi! Can you check your BIOS configuration? VMware IOMMU function derived from Intel VT-d configuration. If you check all X8DTT BIOS configuration about Intel VT-d. ConnectX VPI also has a problem with...
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Re: Windows Server 2012 and ConnectX cards..drivers?
Hi! Can you try the procedure on 78 page? Here is a link. Good luck! http://www.risingtidesystems.com/doc/RTS%20OS%20Admin%20Manual.pdf
View ArticleRe: How do I recreate 100Gb connect IB performance claims?
Yes that is the case. I ran a simple rdma_bw test to measure the bandwidth. One client server pair was targeting port 1 and another client server pair was targeting port 2. They used 65kB message sizes...
View ArticleRe: How to read /proc/interrupts?
I understand the multiple interrupt channels are to provide better concurrent performance as you suspect. In my experience using them has not been straightforward. I am not sure how some of the OFED...
View ArticleRe: Link up delay above QDR switches..
I have seen delays getting the links up on our systems. I have not investigated it since it is not an issue. Have you tried adjusting any of the subnet manager configurations? I assume that you have...
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Re: Link up delay above QDR switches..
I'm also tried adjust sweep time in my SM configuration.But getting the link-up delay was exist. There is not a link-up delay that I was change the switch to DDR switch with SM.(I have some hybrid...
View ArticleRe: Windows Server 2012 and ConnectX cards..drivers?
I did try, but I downloaded the mellanox 3.1 drivers which are only for server 2008r2 and they say "this is not server 2008" and don't install. If they're talking about the openfabrics distribution,...
View ArticleRe: Windows Server 2012 and ConnectX cards..drivers?
Hi!You must use OFED driver.You can extract OFED package some folder and you can install that driver manually...:) from my iPhone 2013. 9. 5. 1:33 "michael.blanchard" <socialmedia@mellanox.com>...
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Sharing connectx IPoIB cards with windows server 2012 guest VM
Is there a trick to this? I thought you could just add it to the virtual switch, but apparently the guest VM traffic isn't routed across the infiniband fabric. I can ping the host machine, but no...
View ArticleQUES: is there a ConnectX-2 VPI MLNX_WinOF package for Windows 8?
Subject says it all. TIA. John TrebleOttawa, Canada
View ArticleRe: Sharing connectx IPoIB cards with windows server 2012 guest VM
Doing some more research, this seems to be an issue with IPoIB not wanting to be bridged, only NAT'd which vmware supports but not hyper-v, and my only option is network virtualization with SCVMM. Is...
View ArticleRe: Windows Server 2012 and ConnectX cards..drivers?
I have also tried to get Windows 2012 and SRP working. I ended up reverting to Windows 2008 R2 and using a ConnectX-2 card and did successfully get this to work using the OpenFabrics drivers.
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Re: Windows Server 2012 and ConnectX cards..drivers?
At this point, had I realized the time and expense and issues with infiniband, I would have stuck with iSCSI!!! ugh!
View ArticleRe: QUES: is there a ConnectX-2 VPI MLNX_WinOF package for Windows 8?
The driver is available on our website. Please visit: www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=32&mtag=windows_sw_drivers. For more information, please visit our Technical Support space:...
View ArticleRe: QUES: is there a ConnectX-2 VPI MLNX_WinOF package for Windows 8?
Sorry, what am I missing here? I see references on the web site and in the release notes (e.g., 4.40 ...) to:Windows Server 2012Windows Server 2008Windows Server 2003Windows 7Windows XP Nothing for...
View ArticleRe: QUES: is there a ConnectX-2 VPI MLNX_WinOF package for Windows 8?
Apologies! I left out part of the answer from our support team: You would use the information for WinOF 4.40 support Windows 2012 Server (AKA Windows 8) on ConnectX-2.
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