***SPAM*** Re: [ofa-general] Any easy way to specify to the SM to route/zone?

[Chris Worley]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Hal Rosenstock
<hal.rosenstock at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Chris Worley <worleys at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Hal Rosenstock
>> <hal.rosenstock at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Chris Worley <worleys at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So I need to tell the SM to route specific ports on the server/target
>>>> to specific clients/initiators.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way to do this?
>>>
>>> Do you mean restrict access between certain clients/servers ?
>>
>> One server w/ 4QDR boards, 16 clients with one QDR board.  I want each
>> port on the server routed/zoned to two clients.
>>
>>> If so,
>>> you can do this with partitioning
>>
>> What is partitioning?
>
> A partition is a collection of ports which are allowed to communicate
> together. There are two forms of members: full members which can talk
> to any other member (useful for servers) and limited members which can
> only talk to full members (useful for clients). See the opensm man
> page or partition-config.txt on setting this up for OpenSM.
>

Let me see if I understand this with a simple example... my port GUIDs
(as reported by ibstat) are for one server (4 QDR ports) and four
clients (one QDR port each):


Server A:           Port GUID: 0x0024717124000029
Server B:           Port GUID: 0x002471712400002a
Server C:           Port GUID: 0x0024717127000035
Server D:           Port GUID: 0x0024717127000036

Client 1:                Port GUID: 0x0002c90300028c01
Client 2:                Port GUID: 0x0002c90300026047
Client 3:                Port GUID: 0x0002c90300026053
Client 4:                Port GUID: 0x0002c9030002603b

Assuming I want a 1:1 (one server port to one client) partitioning, I
would put the following in /etc/ofed/partitions.conf:

part1=0x1, ipoib, defmember=full : 0x0024717124000029, 0x0002c90300028c01;
part2=0x2, ipoib, defmember=full : 0x002471712400002a, 0x0002c90300026047;
part3=0x3, ipoib, defmember=full : 0x0024717127000035, 0x0002c90300026053;
part4=0x4, ipoib, defmember=full : 0x0024717127000036, 0x0002c9030002603b;

... and run w/:

opensm -r -B -P/etc/ofed/partitions.conf

Does that sound correct?  It doesn't work (I restarted ib on the
clients), although ibstat shows the links up.  What am I getting
wrong?  The opensmd is running on the server.

Thanks,

Chris