[lustre-discuss] Lustre and OFED

[Harald van Pee]

Hello

On Friday 28 July 2017 15:48:12 Ben Evans wrote:
> Eli, just to clarify are you talking about using the in-kernel OFED vs. a
> vendor (Mellanox) OFED, or 

In our case we are using the OFED of the debian distribution used.

> are you talking about using the ConnectX-3
> hardware in IPoIB mode and just using it as a faster Ethernet?

is  possible? How one have to do this?

Harald


> 
> -Ben Evans
> 
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> Subject: [lustre-discuss] Lustre and OFED
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> How 'needed' is OFED for Lustre? In the LUG talks it is mentioned every
> once in a while and that got me thinking a bit.
> 
> What things are gained by installing OFED? Performance? Accurate traffic
> reports?
> 
> Currently I am using a lustre system without OFED but our IB hardware is
> from the FDR generation so not bleeding edge and probably doesn't need
> OFED because of that....
> 
> Thanks,
> Eli
> 
> Tech specs:
> Servers: CentOS 6.8 + Lustre 2.8 (kernel from Lustre RPMs)
> Clients: Debian + kernel 4.2 + Lustre 2.8
> IB: ConnectX-3 FDR