Table of Contents

 

About This Document

15

Intended Audience

15

New and Changed Documentation in This Edition

15

Publishing History

15

What’s in This Document

16

Typographical Conventions

16

Related Documents

17

HP Encourages Your Comments

17

1 Introduction to Technology

19

Understanding the Fabric Clustering System

19

HP Fabric Clustering System

19

Understanding InfiniBand

19

What is InfiniBand?

19

InfiniBand Advantages

19

InfiniBand Capabilities

19

InfiniBand Transport Services

20

HP Fabric Subnet Manager

20

About the HP Fabric Clustering System Software Suite

20

MPI

20

IPoIB

20

Oracle 10gRAC

20

SKGXP

20

Itutil

20

IT-API

20

User-Space RDMA Library

21

HCA

21

Kernel RDMA Subsystem

21

Interaction with HyperFabric Driver

21

2 Hardware Overview

23

Hardware Components

23

Host Channel Adapters

23

Switch

31

Other Product Elements

31

3 Installation Planning

33

Preliminary Considerations

33

Features, Parameters and Supported Configurations for Database/Oracle and TCP/UDP/IP

 

Applications

33

Applications

33

Application Availability

34

Site Set-up

34

4 Installing HP Fabric Clustering System

35

HP Fabric Clustering System Installation Prerequisites

35

Install HP Fabric Clustering System Adapters

36

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