Hello,
I'm im having some trouble getting infiniband to work on xpenology, and hoping someone has some advice. Ive tried two different cards on two different machines, the results are the same. Nothing seen in the gui and nothing seen via ifconfig. Both were update to the latest patch found here. The cards are Mellanox MHQH29B-XTR (connect-x2), Mellanox MHGA28-XTC (connect-x). id rather use the connect-x because otherwise it will be collecting dust, but working on either would be great.
i download the drivers from the link in this post: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6070
this will be my nas device:
Supermicro x8dt3-ln4f
dual xeon e5520
16gb ecc
mix of 1tb and 3tb drives
has quad on board nics, i thought this may be an issue if. is xpenology limited to only four nic cards?
so i started messing around on a test machine, to get a "proof of concept"
test machine:
gigabyte 990fxa-ud3
amd fx 8320
8gb ram
60gb ssd for test load os
onboard lan off, using intel dual port 1gb
Process:
Standard load process works like a charm, patches install w/o a hitch (thanks for all the hard work contributors)
reboot between patches
used winscp to install the ko files (/lib/modules) and modified the /etc/rc and /etc.default/rc per the readme in zip file.
reboot after driver install
lsmod results:
Xpenology> lsmod | grep mlx
mlx4_ib 104330 0
ib_sa 19338 4 mlx4_ib,rdma_cm,ib_ipoib,ib_cm
ib_mad 34788 4 mlx4_ib,ib_cm,ib_sa,ib_mthca
ib_core 47092 10 mlx4_ib,svcrdma,xprtrdma,rdma_cm,iw_cm,ib_ipoib,ib_cm,ib_sa,ib_mthca,ib_mad
mlx4_en 67584 0
mlx4_core 169852 2 mlx4_ib,mlx4_en
newbie to linux, but looks ok?
ifconfig results:
Xpenology> ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
inet addr:192.168.40.231 Bcast:192.168.40.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::92e2:baff:fe18:d448/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1617 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:774 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:638456 (623.4 KiB) TX bytes:340936 (332.9 KiB)
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
inet addr:169.254.242.227 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6165 (6.0 KiB) TX bytes:6165 (6.0 KiB)
so i have a few questions:
is xpenology limited to only four nic cards, if this is the case than i may need a new nas board....
anyone see a flaw in my process?
are the cards im using simply too old, i didnt see a card mentioned in the successful test system in the thread i was reading.
Any input would be most appreciated