hi I try to setup lustre in vbox env I can do rhel5.3 and lustre1.8.1.1 what is better way to test ofed ? I can do ge with iscsi storage but how do u test the IB/OFED stack? TIA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: hung-sheng_tsao.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 273 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.lustre.org/pipermail/lustre-discuss/attachments/20091026/20ec9b9f/attachment.vcf
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 09:52 -0500, Dr. Hung-Sheng Tsao wrote:> hiHi,> I try to setup lustre in vbox env > I can do rhel5.3 and lustre1.8.1.1 > what is better way to test ofed ?Hrm. I''m not really sure what you are asking here given that VBox is a virtual environment, which AFAIK does not virtualize any I/B hardware. I can''t imagine how OFED is relevant in such a situation.> I can do ge with iscsi storage but how do u test the IB/OFED stack?I think this is a question for the VBox folks, on how I/B can be virtualized, or perhaps passed through to a VBox VM. Once that is taken care of, as far as Lustre is concerned, it should be business as usual. b. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.lustre.org/pipermail/lustre-discuss/attachments/20091026/74d92dfa/attachment.bin
On 2009-10-26, at 08:53, Brian J. Murrell wrote:> On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 09:52 -0500, Dr. Hung-Sheng Tsao wrote: >> I try to setup lustre in vbox env >> I can do rhel5.3 and lustre1.8.1.1 >> what is better way to test ofed ? > > Hrm. I''m not really sure what you are asking here given that VBox > is a > virtual environment, which AFAIK does not virtualize any I/B hardware. > I can''t imagine how OFED is relevant in such a situation.Unless something is new that I''m not aware of, I suspect the only way to access the IB network from inside the VM would be via IPoIB, which would hurt performance noticably, and increase system loading due to the lack of RDMA support from the TCP LND.>> I can do ge with iscsi storage but how do u test the IB/OFED stack? > > I think this is a question for the VBox folks, on how I/B can be > virtualized, or perhaps passed through to a VBox VM. > > Once that is taken care of, as far as Lustre is concerned, it should > be > business as usual.Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.