`<div dir="ltr">I hate to sound negative, but you're in for a bad time. The current drivers were written by sun/oracle, and only just happen to still work. Parts (like IPoIB) work, but others (EoIB) will randomly panic. Hardware support is limited to connectx 1-2. And if anything goes wrong, there isn't anyone that can really help you. <div><br></div><div>That all said, we had decent success with iscsi/iSER over connectX 1 cards. Fujita Syoyo forward ported the last version of the OFED stack that Sun/Oracle modified up to more recent illumos. Those bits are here:</div><div><a href="https://github.com/syoyo/solaris-infiniband-tools">https://github.com/syoyo/solaris-infiniband-tools</a><br></div><div> -nld</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Matthew Mabis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmabis@vmware.com" target="_blank">mmabis@vmware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I was wondering if someone who has been using IB in their lab has any good advice for someone just starting to integrate IB into their ZFS environment. I have Connect-X (HCA) Card put into the host ( i do have a CX3 but i have heard its not natively supported
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<div> Any Best Practices for using IPoIB with OmniOS?</div>
<div> Should i use the Stock drivers build into solaris (are there different ones that work better more stable?)</div>
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<div>What i am going to attempt is my 3 ESXI hosts have CX-3 (VPI Pro Cards) connected to a SX6012 Switch i have a CX4 to QSFP cable coming to hook it into the switch and wanted to see if there would be any problems (yes the CX card is 20Gb/s) but this is the
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<div>Anything someone might see as an issue (Gonna try iSCSI/NFS with This method direct lines to the hosts) uses CIFS on the 1Gb Ether. </div>
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