
1 Introduction
This reference design describes how to integrate and use Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
(RHEV-M) to control a cloud based on:
• Servers with Red Hat OS and KVM
• Mellanox products for network connectivity and storage
Through significant customer engagements, building data centers, and working closely with IaaS
architects and administrators, Mellanox in collaboration with Red Hat formed a new Cloud-X
architecture which enables an integrated computing, network and storage technology cloud solution.
Through intelligent discovery, awareness and automation, the new joint solution provides the highest
levels of virtualization and application performance.
The new collaboration is designed to deliver a high-performance and efficient infrastructure.
Performance, application service levels, security, and usability no longer need to be compromised, and
importantly, users will benefit from the most cost effective infrastructure.
The purpose of this document is to describe virtualization networking management with RHEV-M
utilizing Mellanox InfiniBand HCAs and switches as a fabric interconnect.
This reference architecture demonstrates how to build a fully integrated InfiniBand FDR interconnect
cloud infrastructure with RHEV-M and covers the installation and setup including:
• Installation and configuration of the RHEV and Mellanox components: Adapters, switches,
storage accelerator and fabric manger
• Datacenter configuration – various configuration flows needed to operate the network
• Monitoring and troubleshooting
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