[Gluster-devel] Any feedback on performance when migrating from 1gige to 10gbps infiniband?

[Nathan Stratton]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Gordan Bobic wrote:

> Have you done testing with 1Gb networking? Do your storage boxes have enough 
> CPU resource to handle a 10x increase in bandwidth? What about disk I/O? 
> You'll need some pretty fat storage nodes to justify going to 10Gb.

Actually, we have picked up all our 10 gig infiniband gear on ebay for an 
avg of $1K for a 24 port switch, $35 for dual port cards, and $20 for 
cables. At that rate it has been easy to justify 10 gig infiniband. The 
latency improvements are significant.


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