Which NVIDIA product provides central monitoring and management of an InfiniBand fabric?
Why C is the answer
Unified Fabric Manager (UFM)
UFM provides fabric visibility, telemetry and management.
In detail
- UFM provides central monitoring and management of InfiniBand.
- It provides fabric management.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
An operations team watches its InfiniBand fabric in UFM, with central visibility and telemetry.
See it in different ways
flowchart TD
A{"What do you want to know?"} -->|"Local port state"| B["ibstat"]
A -->|"Which nodes exist"| C["ibnodes"]
A -->|"Link details"| D["iblinkinfo"]
A -->|"Fabric errors"| E["ibdiagnet"]
A -->|"RDMA speed"| F["ib_write_bw and ib_write_lat"]mindmap
root((Visibility))
Spectrum
What Just Happened
NetQ
In-band telemetry
cl-resource-query
InfiniBand
UFM
ibdiagnet
Before deployment
DSX Airmindmap
root(("UFM"))
n1["Provides"]
n2["Visibility"]
n3["Telemetry"]
n4["Management"]Key point: UFM manages InfiniBand fabrics.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. NVIDIA DSX Air
- DSX Air simulates networks.
- B. NVIDIA NetQ, for Ethernet
- NetQ monitors Ethernet.
- D. NVIDIA Spectrum SDK
- An SDK is for building software.