DSS V6 support for MS Cluster and MS Hyper-V cluster w/ Persistent Reservation.

[Olias]

Bump.
It's been five months since this was announced. Must have been harder to do than originally thought.
Any updates on a release date?

[Gr-R]

This is in final stages of testing, and should be released very soon.

[Olias]

Woot! Thanks for the quick update. DSS is a fantastic product and the people working at Open-e are the best in the world.

[Gr-R]

If you would like a test version, submit a support request, and we can get that too you.

[Olias]

Thanks for the offer. Unfortunately I don't have the extra hardware available for two DSS boxes in addition to two MS cluster servers.

I do have one question; will it be possible to use this without a network switch? That is, can each DSS box be connected directly via 10Gb cables to each of the two MS cluster servers? That would eliminate the single point of failure of using a switch.

[Gr-R]

configuring switchless is possible:
http://blog.open-e.com/is-it-possibl...lable-cluster/

[Olias]

I knew from some past forum posts that switchless configurations are possible. The linked article only mentions a ESX environment. I'm sorry my question wasn't more specific.

Is switchless configuration in a MS Cluster running MS Hyper-V w/ Persistent Reservation connections possible?