On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Ira Weiny <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:34:02 -0600 > Michael Robbert <[email protected]> wrote: > > I will second this. OpenSM has come a long way since the time Cisco was > selling IB switches. If I understand your situation you don't even need the > 7000D you could just remove it and run OpenSM on a "management" node. If you > can afford it adding a node for OpenSM would be nice but I am not sure you > _need_ it. > > OpenSM is now managing many of the largest IB networks out there, on a 288 > node system it will have no problems at all "out of the box". >
Can you provide any guidelines to determine when a dedicated management node is beneficial? BTW, we also found that OpenSM is superior to to the SM embedded in our switches. Chuck -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
