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I recently swapped out my Infiniband 10g hardware for 10 gigabit over fiber so I snapped a few photos to post this kit on eBay. I thought I’d post them here as well for posterity’s sake.
This solution was rock solid and I would have kept it running if the hardware adapters didn’t get deprecated in later versions of VMware. Since I was moving to ESX 6.7 this was a non-starter so to eBay it went!
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Details of the switch itself:
16 CX4 ports, 4 XFP ports 4 XFP ports Console and OOB management dual power supply, dual cooling fan modules Hardware details
Various photos of the HP Infiniband 4X DDR Dual Port HBAs (rebranded Mellanox ConnectX Infiniband – MT25418):
CX4 cables: