[Lustre-discuss] InfiniBand networking in VMware vSphere

[Philippe Weill]

Le 05/07/2013 13:19, Vsevolod Nikonorov a écrit :
> Hello everybody, I am wondering now are there any ways to use InfiniBand network adapters in vSphere-based virtual machine
> so that I could build a virtual cluster using lustre as a shared storage?
> As far as I know, the only way of using InfiniBand into virtual machine requires enabling passthrough on ESXi host
>for InfiniBand network adapter, which automatically denies features like vMotion,
>which is one of the main reasons to think about virtual cluster for HPC.
>
> Sorry for some offtopic, and thanks in advance!
>

we use IB on esxi5 host with mellanox driver
but in VM only vmxnet3 (10G)
we just have lustre client VM mounting the lustre filesystem over tcp
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