Cisco Systems Cisco 4x manual Connecting Beyond BladeCenter, Connecting InfiniBand Cables

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Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring the Server Switch

Connecting Beyond BladeCenter

Connecting Beyond BladeCenter

To extend your InfiniBand fabric beyond your BladeCenter cluster, you must configure the priority of the subnet manager on your Server Switch Module, then connect one or more of the external interfaces on your Server Switch Module to an outside InfiniBand fabric.

The device with the highest subnet manager priority becomes the master subnet manager in the InfiniBand network. To configure subnet manager priority, follow these steps:

Step 1 Switch to Privileged Exec mode by entering the enable command.

Cisco BladeCenterH> enable

Cisco BladeCenterH#

Step 2 Switch to Global Configuration mode by entering the configure command.

Cisco BladeCenterH# configure

Cisco BladeCenterH(config)#

Step 3 Configure the priority of the subnet manager by entering the ib sm command with this information:

•subnet-prefix keyword

•Subnet prefix of the InfiniBand network to which the Server Switch belongs

•priority keyword

•Priority integer value of the subnet manager (1 is the lowest the priority)

Cisco BladeCenterH(config)# ib sm subnet-prefix fe:80:00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 1

Step 4 Exit Global Configuration mode.

Cisco BladeCenterH(config)#exit

Cisco BladeCenterH#

Step 5 Save the configuration by entering the copy running-config startup-config command.

Cisco BladeCenterH# copy running-config startup-config

Cisco BladeCenterH#

After you configure your subnet manager priority, connect your Server Switch Module to the outside InfiniBand fabric. By default, the external interfaces on your Server Switch Module auto-negotiate speed with the fabric.

Connecting InfiniBand Cables

To plug in an InfiniBand cable, push the connector into the interface until you hear/feel a click.

To remove a cable with a pull connector, grasp the connector with one hand and push it toward the port, then pull the latch away from the port with your other hand and gently wiggle the connector away from the port.

Cisco 4x InfiniBand Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter User Guide

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