Product specifications

D000006-000 Rev A 2-1
Section 2
Fast Fabric Overview
2.1
Feature Overview
The Fast Fabric Toolset is designed to both simplify and expedite common
InfiniBand (IB) cluster management tasks. Fast Fabric can assist in generic
management tasks as well as InfiniBand installation, upgrade, configuration and
verification tasks.
Fast Fabric has the following key capabilities:
❥ Accelerates initial fabric installation
❥ Verify host management network connectivity
❥ Verify host OS levels
❥ Sets up ssh keys
❥ Performs initial InfiniBand software installation
❥ Configures Internet Protocol over InfiniBand (IPoIB) IP addresses
❥ Performs InfiniBand driver upgrades or the installation of additional InfiniBand
drivers
❥ Verifies key fabric installation metrics:
❥ Components in fabric
❥ Link error counters
❥ Link widths and speeds
❥ IB and PCI bus bandwidth
❥ IB end-to-end latency
❥ IPoIB connectivity
❥ Subnet Agent (SA) visibility of all nodes
❥ IB connectivity of all switches and nodes
❥ Aids in diagnosis of fabric problems
❥ Fabric error isolation
❥ Fabric topology analysis
❥ Fabric route analysis