MetroX-2 and MetroX extend the availability of InfiniBand’s high data throughput, native Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) communications, and other advanced capabilities to enable native InfiniBand connectivity between remote data centers, or between data center and remote storage infrastructures, for high availability and disaster recovery. Users can easily and effectively migrate application jobs from one InfiniBand center to another, or combine the compute power of multiple remote data centers together for higher overall performance and scalability.