It’s DCB That Requires This For those of you who are experimenting with the RoCE variant of RDMA for SMB Direct in Windows Server 2012 (R2), make sure you have a VLAN tag in your configuration if this is more … Continue reading
Prologue On gloomy day, it was dark, grey and cold, we gave battle with RoCE & DCB (PFC/ETS). The fight was a long one, the battle field uncharted and we had only our veteran attitude towards adversity to guide us … Continue reading
Introduction SMB Direct RoCE Does Not Work Without DCB/PFC. “Yes”, you say, “we know, this is well documented. Thank you.” but before you sign of hear me out. Recently I plugged to RoCE cards into some test servers and linked … Continue reading
Data Center Bridging (DCB) is a collection of standards-based end-to-end networking technologies that allow Ethernet to act as the unified fabric for multiple types of traffic in the data center. You cannot put a bunch of traffic types / protocols … Continue reading