2016-06-16 12:54 GMT+02:00 Oliver Dzombic <[email protected]>: > aside from the question of the coolness factor of Infinitiband, > you should always also consider the question of replacing parts and > extending cluster. > > A 10G Network environment is up to date currently, and will be for some > more years. You can easily get equipment for it, and the pricing gets > lower and lower. Also you can use that network environment also for > other stuff ( if needed ) just to keep flexibility. > > With the IB stuff, you can only use it for one purpose. And you have a ( > very ) limited choice of options to get new parts.
I totally agree with you on this. This is exactly my biggest concern, I don't know IB, IB hardware is hard to find from my distributor and currently is not useble for anything else except for storage. A 10GB ethernet (even better a 10GBaseT) would be used for everything, even for our local offices in case we need to change some parts. I can dismiss one 10GB switch from datacenter, replace it with a newer one and use the replaced one in our offices. The same would not be possible with IB as i'll have to redesign the whole office network or similiar. _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
