Re: Infiniband for RAC 10g on Linux

When you say "as far as we've been able to figure out", I understand. It's been a challenge to just find out what is and isn't supported.

I did find that bit of information, but haven't followed up on it:

Mellanex supports Infiniband Architecture in Oracle 10g. http://www.taborcommunications.com/dsstar/03/0923/106675.html

Keith

At 03:05 PM 9/9/2005, Matthew Zito wrote:

>InfiniBand is fairly cheap. However, true IB for RAC (uDAPL) is not
>supported in 10gR2. As far as we've been able to figure out, the
>InfiniBand support is for SDP and is undocumented (that's for
>SQL*Net) and for interconnect traffic is only IPoIB - standard IP run
>over InfiniBand. Oracle has dropped plans to support uDAPL -
>apparently deciding to try to push their own proprietary RDMA protocol.
>
>Matt

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