Infiniband

[stomp]

Hello,

 

Does anyone here know if Infiniband cards are supported out of the box by unRAID? I was seriously considering buying two 10GbE Intel NIC's but Infiniband cards are cheaper. Though I'm not sure if this technology is supported natively. I want to connect my Windows 7 workstation with my unRAID box (already saturating the GbE link).

 

And does anyone have already connected an unRAID box with a Windows 7 machine with a direct 10GbE link? As the latest unRAID beta includes 10GbE driver, I guess it is natively supported. Just want to be sure of this.

 

Thanks.

[Johnm]

no clue but if your unraid is virtual on ESXi, you might have a good chance.

[brian89gp]

Mellanox has 3rd party drivers for their cards for certain versions of ESXi. 

 

You might search for older CX4 based 10gb NIC's, I see them on Ebay for under $150 each occasionally.  I am sure running ethernet on an ethernet card is likely to be much less trouble and hassle then running ethernet over IB.

 

Also saw this one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-10Gb-NIC-PCIe-Network-Adapter-Card-XR997-0XR997-/251095217717?pt=US_Internal_Network_Cards&hash=item3a7670f635

 

CAT6A makes for a cheap interconnect.

 

http://forums.servethehome.com/showthread.php?22-10-Gigabit-Ethernet-(10GbE)-Networking-NICs-Switches-etc

 

[stomp]

I was thinking about getting 2 XR997 but it seems their fan is horribly noisy...

 

I'll probably get 2 Intel X540-T1 (roughly 350 $ each).

[stomp]

Looks like it's pretty easy to find cheap CX4 NIC from Myricom on eBay: 10G-PCIE-8A for 50-100$. It looks too good to be true... From unRAID changelog, Myricom NIC should be supported (starting from rc4). Me tempted