Faster Data Center Transfers with InfiniBand Network Block Device

Posted by bob on Mar 5, 2017 12:58 AM EDT
Linux.com; By Amber Ankerholz
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The storage team of ProfitBricks has been looking for a way to speed transfers between VMs on compute nodes and physical devices on storage servers, connected via InfiniBand, in their data centers. As a solution, they developed the IBNBD driver, which presents itself as a block device on the client side and transmits the block requests to the server side, according to Danil Kipnis, Software Developer at ProfitBricks GmbH.

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