Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Nathan Stratton <nathan at robotics.net>wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Joe,Yu wrote: > > Hello guys, >> >> 'Coz DRBD nodes sync data all through the GigE network(normal topology). >> Does it make sense that use Infiniband hardware replace GigE as the >> inter-connection link for DRBD nodes to have outstanding performance >> boost? >> > > We use IPoIB, it's a performance hit, over verbs, but much better then > GigE. > > We have deployed a 4 nodes Oracle RAC Cluster 1 years ago with HP's >> infiniband products and gained big performance improvement. This encourage >> us to think of this day-and-day cheaper hardware solution for a faster >> DRBD >> cluster. >> > > With all of the Infiniband parts on ebay, or even the cost new it is worth > it. > > > <> >> > Nathan Stratton CTO, BlinkMind, Inc. > nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com > http://www.robotics.net http://www.blinkmind.com > Any idea for Linbit and DRBD community to develop native DRBD driver upon IB? Just like we do in HPC cluster ? To achieve hight performance parallel I/O by utilizing lustre over IB. -- Joe Yu LinuxTea Professional Group Opensource Consulting Corp. -- Joe Yu LinuxTea Professional Group Opensource Consulting Corp. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20081230/b9b33317/attachment.htm>