Hi. I am looking for a new solution to replace our aging storage system. We use storage system mainly to provide block storage to KVM/Libvirt. We are also considering VMware as a virtualization platform so the storage system should provide us with block storage and possible VMware compatible storage.
If I understood correctly the most cost efficient way to accomplish high performance storage network is native Infiniband. Compared to Ethernet solutions I can save thousands and still be able to do 56GB connections with less than millisecond latency. If I were to go Ethernet way (RDMA with ROCE/iSer) I would need to have lossless ethernet and pay thousands if not tens of thousands for appropriate switches. Did i get it right or is there more cost efficient way to do RDMA over ethernet?
Which brings me to my question. Can StarWind VSAN do native 56 gigabit infiniband storage networking? I mean infiniband without IP. I wish to access storage NVME target using low latency 56G Infiniband without Ethernet overhead.
Sorry for incorrect terminology, hope you get my thought. Thanks in advance.
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