Hello, after two weeks of testing and firmware patching I think we found some major bug in the ESX 5.1 OFED 1.8.1.0 IPoIB driver. We are currently running on a Fujitsu RX300 S6 (Dual Xeon X5670) and a Mellanox ConnectX-2 MHRH2A (Firmware 2.9.1200). The storage server is running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS wit…

Hi Markus, Thank you for taking the time and posting. I poked around with some smart engineers and was able to get some idea in addition to the data you provided. The issue here was the SCSI mid-layer modifying the DMA device dma_boundary attribute under IPoIB (from 64bit to 32bit). This phenomen…

ESX 5.1 IPoIB driver crash

yairi August 20, 2013, 7:58am 2

wonderful!

I will check with the folks if they have an ETA for a permanent fix.

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ESX 5.1 IPoIB driver crash

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