I'm not sure what the actual network topology is supposed to be nor do I really understand their data replication methods across these storage pods, but they ca

I'm not sure what the actual network topology is supposed to be nor do I really understand their data replication methods across these storage pods, but they can always use an Infiniband to ethernet bridge / gateway and that'd centralize the conversion to the egress side of their switches without mucking up overhead locally. Not like you can stick an F5 load balancer right on top of a Mellanox switch and expect it to be hunky dorey, but there's lots of cheap options to be explored is all I'm saying.