infiniband and esxi 5.0

[bobbyxdigital]

I have an infiniband card in my esxi 5.0 server I'd like to utilize.  I see mellanox only provides drivers for esxi 4.0.  Can someone point me in the right direction to find drivers for esxi 5.0?  Thank you.

[aubrutus1]

Yup

got it working on 5.1 B799733 works well actually.  Im glad Mellanox finally released it.

Finally SRP on ESXi 5.1 !!!!  Now we can get on with building our VCloud on ESX5.1 with IB Distributed Switches + SRP SAN.

Upgraded 2 test Hosts, upgraded  HP BL2x220G6 and BL460G7  Blades. QDR Bios 2.9

SRP Bandwidth Tests are easily getting 10GB/s to 20GB/s on SAN

For anyone interested check out www.osnexus.com for a easy to deploy SRP SAN (less expensive than OPENe.com SAN)

BW Test Screen shot provided!  Dual QDR Dual Path to SAN.

not too shabby for 1st test.

so far all HP BL modules take the 2.9 driver not the HP 2.7 driver.  no issies flashing them. (they are QDR Gen 2 Mezzanine cards)

YAY!

[IRIpl]

aubrutus1
can You test using this scenario http://vmktree.org/iometer/ + IOMeter ? and use this profile for IOMeter -> http://vmblog.pl/OpenPerformanceTest32-4k-Random.icf here is a 4k read/write profile

Thanks

Tom