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AlexeyO
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Tue Dec 11, 2012 8:23 am
Hello!
I'd like to know how're things going with infiniband in starwind.
We have two powerfull servers and plan to build 2 nodes SAN.
What should we prefer as interconnect for ultimate replication perfomance, infiniband or 10g ethernet?
The price is almost the same.
Any benchmark results?
And is there support and sales in russian?
PS My english is bad, sorry.
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anton (staff)
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Tue Dec 11, 2012 10:21 am
For now you'll have to stick with TCP-over-IB as there's no native IB support within StarWind. Works fine.
AlexeyO wrote:Hello!
I'd like to know how're things going with infiniband in starwind.
We have two powerfull servers and plan to build 2 nodes SAN.
What should we prefer as interconnect for ultimate replication perfomance, infiniband or 10g ethernet?
The price is almost the same.
Any benchmark results?
And is there support and sales in russian?
PS My english is bad, sorry.
Regards,
Anton Kolomyeytsev
Chief Technology Officer & Chief Architect, StarWind Software
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AlexeyO
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Tue Dec 11, 2012 11:58 am
TCP over IB(40gb or 56gb) faster or slower than 10g ethernet for starwind HA?
TCP over IB officially supported?
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anton (staff)
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Tue Dec 11, 2012 9:05 pm
TCP-over-IB gets 20-25% overhead and a bit more latency. So 40GB IB should be MUCH faster then 10 GbE.
Yes.
AlexeyO wrote:TCP over IB(40gb or 56gb) faster or slower than 10g ethernet for starwind HA?
TCP over IB officially supported?
Regards,
Anton Kolomyeytsev
Chief Technology Officer & Chief Architect, StarWind Software
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OneLoveAmaru
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Sat Jun 15, 2013 6:34 pm
Just wondering if you guys have added infiniband support in your newest version 6.0, since this thread was started. I was thinking of doing 10GB Infiniband since it's much cheaper than 8GB fiber. Do I still need to do TCP over IB?
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anton (staff)
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Sat Jun 15, 2013 8:08 pm
Yes you still need to run IP-over-IB (good news it's working flawlessly in Windows Server 2012). Native IB support for sync channel is put on hold (no IB partner yet).
OneLoveAmaru wrote:Just wondering if you guys have added infiniband support in your newest version 6.0, since this thread was started. I was thinking of doing 10GB Infiniband since it's much cheaper than 8GB fiber. Do I still need to do TCP over IB?
Regards,
Anton Kolomyeytsev
Chief Technology Officer & Chief Architect, StarWind Software
