topic Re: Do we have any plans to support infiniband for front-end protocol?? in Network and Storage Protocols https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Do-we-have-any-plans-to-support-infiniband-for-front-end-protocol/m-p/13822#M1278 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>So still Infiniband not supported ... still used for HA ... also used on the market for cluster (OS, application, ... ) --&gt; latency for shared memory !</P><P>All Server vendors propose and tell that they support and have Infinband card for their models ....</P><P></P><P>CISCO ... go-out from this body (Netapp)&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="wink" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_macro_emoticon jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/5.0.1/images/emoticons/wink.gif"></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:10:20 GMT eric_franckx 2012-06-08T13:10:20Z Do we have any plans to support infiniband for front-end protocol?? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Do-we-have-any-plans-to-support-infiniband-for-front-end-protocol/m-p/13798#M1270 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi All,</P><P></P><P>IHAC asked me that about to use infiniband for front-end protocol (not interconnect)</P><P>Do we have any plans to support infiniband for front-end protocol??</P><P></P><P></P><P>R/Terence</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:55:15 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Do-we-have-any-plans-to-support-infiniband-for-front-end-protocol/m-p/13798#M1270 terencec 2025-06-05T06:55:15Z Re: Do we have any plans to support infiniband for front-end protocol?? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Do-we-have-any-plans-to-support-infiniband-for-front-end-protocol/m-p/13803#M1272 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>No official support and none I have seen on any roadmap... but I heard there was one customer using NFS with special approval but don't know if it was ever fully baked.&nbsp; This requires an engineering PVR (policy variance request) filed and when the NetApp SE files it they can lookup the prior PVR.&nbsp; If I had to bet, I would bet it won't be approved, but since there were rumors of it and possibly a customer using it, you might have a small chance.&nbsp; For SAN LUNs, probably not likely at all...</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 09 May 2011 19:19:16 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Do-we-have-any-plans-to-support-infiniband-for-front-end-protocol/m-p/13803#M1272 scottgelb 2011-05-09T19:19:16Z Re: Do we have any plans to support infiniband for front-end protocol?? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Do-we-have-any-plans-to-support-infiniband-for-front-end-protocol/m-p/13808#M1273 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Keep in mind that from a product point of view NetApp have actually moved away from using InfiniBand for the back-end interconnect and over to 10GbE interfaces.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 09 May 2011 19:44:20 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Do-we-have-any-plans-to-support-infiniband-for-front-end-protocol/m-p/13808#M1273 chriskranz 2011-05-09T19:44:20Z Re: Do we have any plans to support infiniband for front-end protocol?? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Do-we-have-any-plans-to-support-infiniband-for-front-end-protocol/m-p/13813#M1274 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>3200 is 10GbE but 6200 is still IB… I thought 10GbE on all but just installed a 6200 and saw IB. But good point we don’t see IB out there much at all except when we implement Xsigo and they support 10GbE now too.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 09 May 2011 19:46:07 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Do-we-have-any-plans-to-support-infiniband-for-front-end-protocol/m-p/13813#M1274 scottgelb 2011-05-09T19:46:07Z Re: Do we have any plans to support infiniband for front-end protocol?? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Do-we-have-any-plans-to-support-infiniband-for-front-end-protocol/m-p/13817#M1276 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>And then they moved back to infiniband for the FAS2240 interconnect...go figure.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:38:53 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Do-we-have-any-plans-to-support-infiniband-for-front-end-protocol/m-p/13817#M1276 ianaforbes 2011-11-30T00:38:53Z Re: Do we have any plans to support infiniband for front-end protocol?? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Do-we-have-any-plans-to-support-infiniband-for-front-end-protocol/m-p/13822#M1278 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>So still Infiniband not supported ... still used for HA ... also used on the market for cluster (OS, application, ... ) --&gt; latency for shared memory !</P><P>All Server vendors propose and tell that they support and have Infinband card for their models ....</P><P></P><P>CISCO ... go-out from this body (Netapp)&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="wink" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_macro_emoticon jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/5.0.1/images/emoticons/wink.gif"></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:10:20 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Do-we-have-any-plans-to-support-infiniband-for-front-end-protocol/m-p/13822#M1278 eric_franckx 2012-06-08T13:10:20Z