Failover in DSS

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08-18-2008, 09:12 AM
steffenblum

Failover in DSS

Hello Support-Team,

we plan to use the open-E DSS on our new two Storage-Server "HP Storageworks All in One 1200".
I have downloaded the demo of DSS, but if i understand the articles in this forum right, the failover feature is only with updates available, which can't be applied in the demo.
Is there another way to try this?

Greetings

Steffen Blum
08-18-2008, 11:09 AM
To-M

We do not have an option to do this with the Demo-CD. We will create a new Demo-CD in several weeks.
08-18-2008, 11:14 AM
steffenblum

Hello To-M,

thank you for your reply.
But when we order now DSS, the failover-function is already implemented?
08-18-2008, 12:27 PM
To-M

You will be able to have this in next release, ETA is the same with the Demo-CD in several weeks.
08-19-2008, 09:18 PM
Robotbeat

What's taking you guys so long? Two months ago, you said 30 days. I am concerned for you guys! If you don't release it soon, the market will leave you behind!
08-20-2008, 08:56 AM
To-M

Trust me we know too well about this delay. But engineers are promising us that they feel ready with next release. Reasons for the delays are from many customer changes and tests.
Engineers informed me they will be ready in 14-16 business days for this release.

We all are waiting with best hopes.
08-20-2008, 10:56 AM
steffenblum

Hi To-M,

the delay of having failover is not a problem for me. Better this feature grows at open-e than by me :rolleyes:
But, as i only want to use iscsi, is it possible to start with the current dss on the first machine without failover and, after an update to a newer release, activate the failover?
08-20-2008, 12:37 PM
To-M

Currently engineers are not recommending this for this version but more research will be done to possibly fix this issue in the following release or an update. Though they are not sure which one.
08-20-2008, 03:59 PM
ottl05

Quote:

Originally Posted by steffenblum

Hi To-M,

the delay of having failover is not a problem for me. Better this feature grows at open-e than by me :rolleyes:
But, as i only want to use iscsi, is it possible to start with the current dss on the first machine without failover and, after an update to a newer release, activate the failover?

thats the same we want to do. we started with dss in april and we wait for the failover feature, since then,
we have iscsi volumes on one machine, and we wre told by our seller, taht it would be possible to activate the failover later with no problem.....
so now what?
08-20-2008, 08:38 PM
To-M

We will have a procedure written for the release notes on how to do this. You will be able to keep your source but you will have remove the metadata then restart the replication for the destination server. Please wait for the release notes as we have not written this procedure yet.