Hello list, I''m planning to set up a cluster with an Infiniband interconnection network. The cluster consists of multiple PCs - each equipped with two Intel XEON 64bit QuadCores and providing up to 7 virtual XEN instances. I''m very new to IB, so my questions are: 1) Is there a tutorial about XEN and IB available? 2) Is IB supported by the XEN kernel? 3) Which IB adapters are supported? 4) Is ist possible that the virtual xen instances (DomNs) share the IB adapter and provide XEN bridging or natting solution similar to Ethernet? 5) What differences exist when using IB between paravirtual XEN instances and Hardware Virtual Machines? Hope for feedback Christian Stenzel _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> > Hello list, > > I''m planning to set up a cluster with an Infiniband interconnection > network. The cluster consists of multiple PCs - each equipped with two > Intel XEON 64bit QuadCores and providing up to 7 virtual XEN instances. > > I''m very new to IB, so my questions are: > > 1) Is there a tutorial about XEN and IB available? > > 2) Is IB supported by the XEN kernel? > > 3) Which IB adapters are supported? > > 4) Is ist possible that the virtual xen instances (DomNs) share the IB > adapter > and provide XEN bridging or natting solution similar to Ethernet? > > 5) What differences exist when using IB between paravirtual > XEN instances and Hardware Virtual Machines? > > Hope for feedback > Christian Stenzel >Hi, some time ago I'' have worked on IB in a xen virtual cluster environment. As far as I can remember a driver to use IB directly in the DomU was in early stage of development; we had to use a module (in the Dom0) that create a fake eth interface that let you to access IB from the domU like a standard eth (IP-over-IB solution). Using this kind of solution the network performance between DomUs dropped of about 50% respect to the nominal band provided by the IB device. The IB board was based upon a Mellanox chipset and gave no particular problems. Let me know if you find something new. Bye Francesco Polzella _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hi, I was interested, is anybody setup IB on Dom0 without IB-over-IP? I can`t get any manual to try understand it... thanx, Casper Francesco Polzella wrote:>> >> Hello list, >> >> I''m planning to set up a cluster with an Infiniband interconnection >> network. The cluster consists of multiple PCs - each equipped with two >> Intel XEON 64bit QuadCores and providing up to 7 virtual XEN instances. >> >> I''m very new to IB, so my questions are: >> >> 1) Is there a tutorial about XEN and IB available? >> >> 2) Is IB supported by the XEN kernel? >> >> 3) Which IB adapters are supported? >> >> 4) Is ist possible that the virtual xen instances (DomNs) share the IB >> adapter >> and provide XEN bridging or natting solution similar to Ethernet? >> >> 5) What differences exist when using IB between paravirtual >> XEN instances and Hardware Virtual Machines? >> >> Hope for feedback >> Christian Stenzel >> > > Hi, > some time ago I'' have worked on IB in a xen virtual cluster environment. > As far as I can remember a driver to use IB directly in the DomU was in > early stage of development; > we had to use a module (in the Dom0) that create a fake eth interface > that let you to access IB > from the domU like a standard eth (IP-over-IB solution). > Using this kind of solution the network performance between DomUs > dropped of about 50% respect to the nominal band provided > by the IB device. > > The IB board was based upon a Mellanox chipset and gave no particular > problems. > > Let me know if you find something new. > > Bye > > Francesco Polzella > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hello, I''ve found a document from Mellanox explaining two principle solutions to provide IB to DomUs. I would prefer the second one. Does someone know more about the implementation status of that project? Casper schrieb:> > Hi, > > I was interested, is anybody setup IB on Dom0 without IB-over-IP? > I can`t get any manual to try understand it... > > thanx, > > Casper > > Francesco Polzella wrote: >>> >>> Hello list, >>> >>> I''m planning to set up a cluster with an Infiniband interconnection >>> network. The cluster consists of multiple PCs - each equipped with >>> two Intel XEON 64bit QuadCores and providing up to 7 virtual XEN >>> instances. >>> >>> I''m very new to IB, so my questions are: >>> >>> 1) Is there a tutorial about XEN and IB available? >>> >>> 2) Is IB supported by the XEN kernel? >>> >>> 3) Which IB adapters are supported? >>> >>> 4) Is ist possible that the virtual xen instances (DomNs) share the >>> IB adapter >>> and provide XEN bridging or natting solution similar to Ethernet? >>> >>> 5) What differences exist when using IB between paravirtual >>> XEN instances and Hardware Virtual Machines? >>> >>> Hope for feedback >>> Christian Stenzel >>> >> >> Hi, >> some time ago I'' have worked on IB in a xen virtual cluster environment. >> As far as I can remember a driver to use IB directly in the DomU was >> in early stage of development; >> we had to use a module (in the Dom0) that create a fake eth interface >> that let you to access IB >> from the domU like a standard eth (IP-over-IB solution). >> Using this kind of solution the network performance between DomUs >> dropped of about 50% respect to the nominal band provided >> by the IB device. >> >> The IB board was based upon a Mellanox chipset and gave no >> particular problems. >> >> Let me know if you find something new. >> >> Bye >> >> Francesco Polzella >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xen-users mailing list >> Xen-users@lists.xensource.com >> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >> > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users