Hello -

Building a high-performance SQL server cluster here. My specific question is - can I assign multiple IP addresses to a single SDC?

I have a 5-node ScaleIO setup that's been working fine. In there, I learnt how to configure SDS's and MDM's with multiple IPs. However, the Microsoft Windows box with SQL server on it - the one I installed SDC on - seem to be lacking options to assign multiple IPs. I have 2 Infiniband HCAs, dual port - therefore 4x infiniband - bandwidth on this box to talk to ScaleIO, but so far I can't figure a way to "team" them.

This being Mellanox HCA, the windows' default teaming to assign it a single IP doesn't work, and Mellanox's own teaming is only for failover so it doesn't add the performance - only one port is active at a time, so performance wise it doesn't do anything.

Any words of wisdom on how to make all 4 ports work together for performance? (Single windows server, single copy of SDC, 4 IPoIB ports with different IP each, cannot be teamed with Windows NIC teaming. Is there are way I can tell SDC to say, "communicate with ScaleIO on these 4 interfaces under these 4 IP addresses"?

thanks!

-Jun