User guide

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1 FastFabric Overview
Feature Overview
The FastFabric Toolset is designed to both simplify and expedite common
InfiniBand (IB) cluster management tasks. FastFabric can assist in generic
management tasks as well as InfiniBand installation, upgrade, configuration and
verification tasks.
FastFabric has the following key capabilities:
 Accelerates initial fabric installation
 Performs chassis and switch configuration
 Verifies host management network connectivity
 Verifies host OS levels
 Sets up host and chassis 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 matrixes:
 Components in fabric
 Link error counters
 Link widths and speeds
 InfiniBand and PCI bus bandwidth
 InfiniBand end-to-end latency
 IPoIB connectivity
 Subnet Agent (SA) visibility of all nodes
 InfiniBand connectivity of all switches and nodes
 Aids in diagnosis of fabric problems
 Fabric error isolation