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, 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