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3.5.2 Interprocessor communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
3.5.3 Storage area networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Chapter 4. Configuring InfiniBand with QLogic bridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
4.1 Configuring QLogic InfiniBand Bridge Modules with Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
4.1.1 Installing the drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
4.1.2 QLogic InfiniBand Ethernet Bridge Module: Configuring VNIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
4.1.3 QLogic InfiniServ Driver: Configuring IPoIB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
4.1.4 QLogic Fibre Channel Bridge: Configuring SRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
4.1.5 Hints and tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
4.2 Configuring QLogic InfiniBand Bridge Modules with Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
4.2.1 Installing the HCA Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
4.2.2 QLogic InfiniBand Ethernet Bridge Module: Configuring VNIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4.2.3 QLogic InfiniServ Driver: Configuring IPoIB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4.2.4 QLogic Fibre Channel Bridge: Configuring SRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Chapter 5. Configuring IP over InfiniBand for use with Cisco switches . . . . . . . . . . . 81
5.1 Configuring IPoIB on a Linux host. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
5.1.1 Installing the OFED drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
5.1.2 Cisco InfiniBand host drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
5.1.3 Configuring IP over InfiniBand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
5.1.4 Verifying the IPoIB communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
5.1.5 Configuring SRP storage on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
5.2 Configuring the IPoIB on a Windows host. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
5.2.1 Installing Windows host drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
5.2.2 Verifying the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
5.2.3 Configuring IPoIB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
5.2.4 Verifying the IPoIB communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Chapter 6. Boot from InfiniBand using the Cisco 3012 InfiniBand to FC gateway . . . 95
6.1 Benefits of booting from high-speed InfiniBand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
6.2 Blade booting from a SAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
6.2.1 Pre-configuration checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
6.2.2 Verifying and installing HCA firmware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
6.2.3 Configuring the SRP host on the SFS 3012 FC gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
6.2.4 Configuring Fibre Channel SAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
6.2.5 Configuring storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
6.2.6 Discovering storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
6.2.7 Configuring the gateway port and LUN access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
6.2.8 Port masking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
6.2.9 Discovering the boot LUN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
6.3 Installing the OS on the Fibre Channel storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Chapter 7. Configuring the Cisco 3012 InfiniBand to Ethernet gateway . . . . . . . . . . 117
7.1 Introduction to the Ethernet gateway module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
7.1.1 Some general assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
7.1.2 Some general items to consider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
7.2 Client information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
7.3 Implementing a simple bridge group connection to an upstream Ethernet network . . 123
7.3.1 The design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
7.3.2 Some comments on bridge groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
7.3.3 Summary of steps to implement a simple bridge group design . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
7.3.4 Detailed steps to implement a simple bridge group design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
7.3.5 CLI reference for this section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
- Redpaper 1
- October 2007 3
- Contract with IBM Corp 4
- Contents 5
- Contents v 7
- Trademarks 10
- Become a published author 13
- Comments welcome 13
- IBM BladeCenter products and 15
- 1.1 BladeCenter chassis 16
- 1.2 Blade servers 19
- 4X InfiniBand networking only 27
- InfiniBand products for 29
- BladeCenter 29
- OK (Green) and Fault (Yellow) 38
- 2.6.2 InfiniBand DDR HCAs 39
- InfiniBand technology 45
- 3.1.1 Upper layer protocols 46
- 3.1.2 Transport layer 46
- 3.1.3 Network layer 47
- 3.1.4 Data link layer 47
- 3.1.5 Physical layer 48
- 12X Link 49
- 3.2.3 Storage RDMA Protocol 50
- 3.3 Hardware 52
- 3.4 Management 52
- 3.5 Common markets 53
- 3.5.1 Application clustering 54
- 3.5.3 Storage area networks 54
- Configuring InfiniBand with 55
- QLogic bridges 55
- 4.1.1 Installing the drivers 56
- 4.1.5 Hints and tips 74
- Figure 4-66 Active SRP Map 89
- Figure 4-67 Add Direct Map 90
- Figure 4-70 93
- 5.2.3 Configuring IPoIB 105
- Cisco 3012 InfiniBand to FC 109
- 6.2 Blade booting from a SAN 110
- Installing hardware 111
- Figure 6-6 Define SRP host 114
- 6.2.5 Configuring storage 118
- 6.2.6 Discovering storage 119
- 6.2.8 Port masking 120
- Loading SCSI driver 128
- Loading ts_srp_host driver 128
- Configuring the Cisco 3012 131
- 7.2 Client information 136
- 7.3.1 The design 137
- EGW = Ethernet Gateway Module 147
- BG1 = Bridge Group 1 147
- Blue = InfiniBand 147
- Green = Ethernet 147
- Int Po5 153
- Figure 7-25 164
- 7.7 Useful CLI commands 169
- 7.7.2 For the 4948 170
- Abbreviations and acronyms 171
- Related publications 173
- Online resources 174
- Help from IBM 174
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