Connecting Infiniband Devices - Cisco SFS InfiniBand Server Switch SFS 7000P Hardware Installation Manual

Connecting Network Devices

Connecting InfiniBand Devices

Invisible laser radiation may be emitted from the end of the unterminated fiber cable or connector. Do
Warning
not view directly with optical instruments. Viewing the laser output with certain optical instruments
(for example, eye loupes, magnifiers, and microscopes) within a distance of 100 mm may pose an eye
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To use InfiniBand to connect to other workstations or switches, you need standard 4x InfiniBand cables.
InfiniBand cables can be used to connect any two InfiniBand devices, whether a switch or a host.
(Figure 3-11
Switches.) For more information about InfiniBand cables, see the InfiniBand SDR, DDR, and QDR
Technology Overview.
Copper passive DDR cables are limited to 8 meters in length. If you want to use a longer SDR cable in
Note
place of a DDR cable, the port must be comfigured manually to run an SDR rate.
Figure 3-11
Figure 3-12
To connect InfiniBand devices, follow these steps:
Cisco SFS 7000P and SFS 7000D InfiniBand Server Switches Hardware Installation Guide
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and Figure 3-12 show InfiniBand ports on the Cisco SFS 7000P and SFS 7000D Server
Port Connections for the Cisco SFS 7000P Server Switch
InfiniBand port
Port Connections for the Cisco SFS 7000D Server Switch
InfiniBand port
connectors
connectors
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