OnApp OpenE Active/Passive Failover SAN Hardware

When setting up Active / Standby unit of open-e using volume replication over 10G local link (inter connect), is there any option on the Open-E for Virtual IP?

The VM would be connecting to the ISCI initiator on virtual IP

So i would expect only active open-e san broadcast the ARP but once failover, the peer unit would take over the IP address by broadcasting its mac address for it.

Anyone has experience on how Open-e works?

I have read up on open-e docs and it can do what i need :)

cant wait for the hardware to arrive

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Originally Posted by kellogs

When setting up Active / Standby unit of open-e using volume replication over 10G local link (inter connect), is there any option on the Open-E for Virtual IP?

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Yes, you can assign the VIP.

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Originally Posted by kellogs

The VM would be connecting to the ISCI initiator on virtual IP

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Correct.

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Originally Posted by kellogs

So i would expect only active open-e san broadcast the ARP but once failover, the peer unit would take over the IP address by broadcasting its mac address for it.

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Correct again, the passive node will take over all resources.

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Originally Posted by kellogs

Anyone has experience on how Open-e works?

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With over 25,000 installs, i would say YES!