Heheh. I need to finish my morning coffee before responding to people sometimes.
Anyways, I am more than happy to discuss further what you are working on, we can always help with alternative solutions. I have a customer using SMB Direct to bridge Fiber Channel onto IB networks, very slick.
As for VSA - what’s your interest in this product?
smb3_femi Infrastructure & Networking - NVIDIA Developer Forums : contact me directly, we can talk about VSA: jeffm (at) mellanox (dot) com
cactus Infrastructure & Networking - NVIDIA Developer Forums : VSA is iSER only, no SRP support. SRP comes in our OFED stack, and is a very nice storage protocol. There are some storage vendors supporting SRP such as (and not limited to): DDN, Texas Memory, Violin, Xyratex, NetApp (Infrastructure & Networking - NVIDIA Developer Forums) and others (I really apologize to any storage partner I missed )
Ok, Jeff, where is the VSA. You haven’t said if it’s available or not?
We haven’t tested SDP accelerating iSCSI, but I suppose it’s possible.
I don’t get many requests for SDP these days, and I believe Open Fabrics removed it (From their latest newsletter):
Not sure if that means they depricated it or if it’s gone all together.
OFED 3.5 is Now Available on the OFA Website
Version 3.5 of OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) is available on the OFA web site OpenFabrics Alliance – Innovation in High Speed Fabrics . The main changes from OFED 1.5.4.1 and 1.5.4 include:
Jeff, sent u email
I really appreciate all the Mellanox folks responding to this thread.
Reading cactus Infrastructure & Networking - NVIDIA Developer Forums reply, I’m a little confused regarding iSER
I’m sure jmargolis Infrastructure & Networking - NVIDIA Developer Forums will set me straight once we touch base
Very simple: iSER is iSCSI + RDMA (RDMA replacing TCP as the underlying transport). It’s well supported in Linux for now, and maybe other OSes in the future.
Nope. Not right now at least.