Infiniband does not load automatically on rhel6 kvm host

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • After loading the infiniband packages on a rhel6 host one needs to manually run:

    modprobe ib_ipoib
    modprobe ib_umad
    
    
    
    ifup ib0
    

in order to get the infinband device to come up after reboot

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6

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