[ofa-general] SRP target sporadic behaviour with Solaris, VMware

[Bart Van Assche]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Bart Van Assche
<bart.vanassche at gmail.com> wrote:
>  My experience with SRP is as follows (with Linux 2.6.24 + SCST + SRPT
>  as target):
>  * Linux SRP initiator: works perfectly.
>  * OpenSolaris SRP initiator: I could not get Sun's SRP initiator
>  working on OpenSolaris. I even asked a Solaris expert to help me, but
>  he couldn't get the SRP initiator working either.
>  * VMware ESX 3.5 + Mellanox InfiniBand drivers (released in January
>  2008): until now I only have tested a setup with a single target. When
>  doing a lot of I/O over the SRP connection, after about 10 minutes the
>  virtual machine running on VMware starts logging communication errors.
>  I reported this yesterday to Mellanox support, and Mellanox is
>  currently working on this issue. Note: I had to upgrade the InfiniBand
>  switch firmware before the ESX server was able to find the SRP target.

The issue with SRP and VMware ESX might have been my fault -- I can't
reproduce this anymore. ESX + SRP is now working fine here.

Bart.