[Users] Question about Infiniband Bond Conf Ubuntu BLc & Topology

[Kevin J Moran]

German,

This is a good start:

https://community.mellanox.com/docs/DOC-2160

Kevin


On November 13, 2015 5:58:24 AM CST, German Anders <ganders at despegar.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm really new to IB and I want to know about a possible configuration
>regarding a Mellanox Technologies MT26428 [ConnectX VPI PCIe 2.0 5GT/s
>- IB
>QDR / 10GigE] mezzanine card with two ports:
>
># ibstat
>CA 'mlx4_0'
>    CA type: *MT26428*
>    Number of ports: 2
>    Firmware version: 2.9.1530
>    Hardware version: b0
>    Node GUID: 0xf452140300dd3294
>    System image GUID: 0xf452140300dd3297
>  *  Port 1:*
>        State: Active
>        Physical state: LinkUp
>        Rate: 40
>        Base lid: 32
>        LMC: 0
>        SM lid: 2
>        Capability mask: 0x02510868
>        Port GUID: 0xf452140300dd3295
>        Link layer: InfiniBand
>   * Port 2:*
>        State: Active
>        Physical state: LinkUp
>        Rate: 40
>        Base lid: 33
>        LMC: 0
>        SM lid: 2
>        Capability mask: 0x02510868
>        Port GUID: 0xf452140300dd3296
>        Link layer: InfiniBand
>
>on a HP Blade system with Ubuntu 14.04 kernel 3.13.0-63-generic. Is
>there
>any special consideration to create a Bond interface here? to use both
>ports 1 and 2? Any configuration examples out there to share? Or is any
>other better use? The scheme is like this:
>
> [image: Imágenes integradas 1]
>Any advise regarding this configuration? improves and recommendations
>will
>be really appreciated, also if a topology change is better than this,
>please point it out. Also notice that the Blade servers correct info is
>(Ubuntu + Mellanox Technologies MT26428)
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Best,
>
>*German*
>
>
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