For the past five weeks we have been getting deep in our Scalable Solutions series. At Entasis we work with our customers to help them build solutions that are Scalable in design, Resilient by nature, with Performance on demand. We feel that these three components are the pillars that all…
Solaris 11: Configure IP Over Infiniband Devices
In this article we will be going over the configuration of an infiniband interface with the IPoIB protocol on Solaris 11, specifically Solaris 11.2 (previous versions of Solaris 11 should work the same, however there have been changes in the ipadm and dladm commands). Identify Infiniband Datalinks First we need…
Linux KVM: Bridging a Bond on CentOS 6.5
Today we are going to hop back into the KVM fray, and take a look at using CentOS as a hypervisor., and configuring very resilient network connections to support our guests. Of course these instructions should be valid on Red Hat Linux and Oracle Linux as well, though there is…
Solaris Networking: Datalink Multipathing Protocol
In this article we are going to go over Datalink Multipathing Protocol (DLMP) available in Solaris. DLMP is similar to IPMP, however there are some key differences, the biggest being the layer at which it operates. DLMP operates at the datalink layer of the OSI model, while IPMP operates at…
Solaris Networking: IP Multipathing Protocol
In this article we are going to go over some basics of using IPMP in Solaris. We will discuss this on the latest versions of Solaris 10 and 11 on the SPARC platform, these instructions should also work on the x86 platform, but will be dependent on the listed version…