Stand up and secure the control plane of an InfiniBand fabric: OpenSM or UFM, PKey partitions, SL/VL QoS, and the MAD keys — without locking yourself out.

1. 2.1 Bringing up OpenSMBoth ports are Active and nobody started a subnet managerAp
2. 2.2 Where the SM runs: switch, host, or UFMThe slide says embedded SM, and underneath it says SHARPAn
3. 2.3 Partitions and PKeys: the most common mistake in IBThe tenant partition went in and half the cluster stopped talkingAn
4. 2.4 QoS: service levels, virtual lanes, SL2VL and VL arbitrationThe printed QoS policy and the storage team that starves anywayAn
5. 2.5 Keys, and locking a fabric down without locking yourself outThe hardening plan that would blind the fabric it hardensE
6. Checkpoint