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I recently picked up a pair of connect-x 3 cards plus a cable for 30$ total, and it’s been absolutely awesome so far. Infiniband for homelabs is a really under

• kbumsik 6y ago
  I recently bought ConnectX-3 too but not arrived yet. I have been thinking to use Infiniband bit I'm afraid to use it since I heard that it works completely different from Ethernet and I am zero knowledge in that. How's your experience in Infiniband? Do NFS/SAMBA work well without significant works?
  • floatboth 6y ago
    If you use IPoIB, well of course nfs will work, it's just IP. But most Mellanox cards work in Ethernet mode just fine, why bother with IB?
    • kbumsik 6y ago
      Then what are the use cases of IB at home? I mean, the comments talk about IB at home, so I am really curious.
      • bleepblorp 6y ago
        It's primarily for homelab rather than pure home use, for people who are doing professional computing at home. The underlying use case is the same as in a professional environment e.g. SAN fabrics, clusters, etc.