Your descriptions are very confusing so I just wanted to make sure you know that you can export gluster over infiniband and over gigE (tcp/ip) from the same gluster storage node as long as it has both infiniband and gigE connectivity: volume server type protocol/server option transport-type ib-verbs option auth.addr.iothreads.allow 10.0.0.* option auth.addr.iothreads-dist.allow 10.0.0.* subvolumes iothreads iothreads-dist end-volume volume server-tcp type protocol/server option transport-type tcp option auth.addr.iothreads.allow 10.0.1.* option auth.addr.iothreads-dist.allow 10.0.1.* subvolumes iothreads iothreads-dist end-volume HTH, Sabuj Pattanayek On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:49 AM, <tegner at renget.se> wrote: > I'm planning a storage solution for our HPC environment which is built on > both gigabit and infiniband switches. The "gluster storage nodes" are > connected to a "infiniband storage switch", and the question is how to > connect our gigabit based subclusters to this storage network. ?As we see > it we could either: > > (i) equip all gluster nodes with gigabit nodes and attach them to a > "gigabit storage network" (as well as the "infiniband storage network"). > Our gigabit subclusters are then attached to a "gigabit storage network". > > or > > (ii) use a separate computer as router equipped with a bunch of gigabit > ports (for connecting with the gigabit subclusters) and a few infiniband > ports (for connecting with the "infiniband storage network"). This > computer could even play the double role as a gluster node? > > Are there any praticular drawbacks with either of these ways of doing it? > > As of today our gigabit subclusters are connected to single fileserver, > connected to a raided bunch of disks using FC, giving us sufficient I/O > performance. We are therefore inclined to believe that the second option > above would also be sufficient. > > Regards, and thanks, > > /jon > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
