Hi, I've been tasked with setting up a storage network based on infiniband. Its a challenge for me as I'm new to this technology but I've been doing my research and in the process of educating myself I've stumbled upon open-e.
My project requires the creation of storage servers to use with CentOS/Xen hypervisors and as such I'm looking at using infiniband cards with the Mellanox ConnectX-2 chipset (MT25408) which is a QDR card, along with a QDR switch. I'm also considering the LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-16i controller.
I note that open-e doesnt support SRP which is a shame and I can see that open-e appears lacking somewhat in its infiniband support. I'd like to hear from anyone who has had success with open-e and IPoIB and would appreciate any helpful advice or comments. I'm also interested in hearing about how replication works with open-e as I plan to pair up each storage server for resilience. Can it replicate over IB? Do I need a second interface?
Thanks for your time.