Fwd: [DRBD-user] DRBD utilize Infiniband inter-connection?

Joe,Yu smartjoe at gmail.com
Tue Dec 30 04:31:29 CET 2008

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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.
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