Infiniband vs 10GB

Can anyone help me with some information about Infiniband vs 10Gb for a RAC interconnect? I'm using 4 quadsocket servers with 24 total cores.
So, I'm worry with some possible issues with interconnections.
Is 1Gb with Jumbo Frames an option?
Thanks

user11178363 wrote:
Can anyone help me with some information about Infiniband vs 10Gb for a RAC interconnect? I'm using 4 quadsocket servers with 24 total cores.
So, I'm worry with some possible issues with interconnections.What issues specifically?
Is 1Gb with Jumbo Frames an option?An option with IB (Infiniband) or GigE?
Cannot recall seeing a 1Gb option when configuring IB. The slowest speed we configure it at is 10Gb. Have not use jumbo frames with IB, but super-jumbo frames - at that time we had server h/w issues (eventually traced and fixed with a CMOS patch) and during the course of troubleshooting, disabled jumbo frames. Have not since re-enabled it, but I suspect that when we do, Interconnect performance will scale better.
Personally - IB over GigE anytime. Been using it for a number of years now and it has been a rock solid Interconnect architecture.
Also, IB is what Oracle themselves selected to use with their Exadata product - they are using Voltaire switches. Not a surprise there either as Cisco not only selected to miss the boat, but also burn the raft they had (by discontinuing their IB FC gateway product range).

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