RE: IBM i 7.4 and IBM i Portfolio give strong foundation for continuing innovation

RDMA sounds like a DDM file on steroids-- with a communication link a lot closer to the hardware. And, if you're storing all your data in main memory (HANA, anyone), it lets more than 1 machine read that data.

Paul E Musselman
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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
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Subject: Re: IBM i 7.4 and IBM i Portfolio give strong foundation for continuing innovation

I know I'm old, but RDMA gives me the heebie jeebies.

On 4/23/2019 1:37 PM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

No but you clearly need two partitions to cluster, and the storage must be SAN, and that RoCE adapter (both sides now) but if I heard Steve Will correctly this morning Power9 would be able to virtualize the RoCE between partitions on the same machine.