Hello!
Do the current release of DSS support SCSI-3 commands like "permanent reservation", which are necessary for Win 2008 failover clustering??
regards,
Lukas
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Hello!
Do the current release of DSS support SCSI-3 commands like "permanent reservation", which are necessary for Win 2008 failover clustering??
regards,
Lukas
Currently we do not support scsi-3 persistent reservations due to the extensive amount of development for this we have no ETA at this time.
:eek: I want to build a win 2008 cluster at the end of this year, very bad news ... :mad:
I bought a new DSS, but wthout SCSI-3 I can forget it ...
PLEASE open-e DO YOUR BEST! I think there are many customer who need this feature very urgent.
Thanx!
Currently open source does not support SCSI-3 so this will take time and we are not able to project ETA.
I was cruising the net and I came upon this:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/list..._view_threaded
:
I know that we lost at least one customer because we couldn't do Windows 2008 cluster.Quote:
This patch series adds the first running SPC-3 compliant Persistent Reservation
emulation support for PROUT REGISTER -> PROUT RESERVE -> PRIN READ_RESERVATIONS ->
PROUT RELEASE -> PROUT UNREGISTER, tested and running with Doug Gilbert's
very excellent sg_persist command. This was tested against Open/iSCSI Initiators
running LIO-Target iSCSI/TCP, and Core-iSCSI Initiators running LIO-Target iSCSI/SCTP.
I will be adding information about TCM/LIO-Target v3.0 and LIO-Target v2.9 usage wrt
Persistent Reservations on to the http://Linux-iSCSI.org wiki at some point as well,
so folks can get their own SPC-3 compliant PR enabled Linux/iSCSI Targets up and running!
Just a quick update - we are to have Windows 2008 support in the march release - engineers made some headway.
Persistent reservation in a month or so? That's great news!!!
yes - finally and it was allot of work but should make every one happier :)
:D GREAT NEWS !!!! I'm still waiting for setting up windows 2008 cluster ... Please hurry up ;)
regards,
Lukas
March release could happen near the end of March or mid April, this our ETA for this feature.
Since Windows Server 2008 R2 will introduce Cluster Shared Volumes, this feature won't really matter - correct?
We haven't performed all the tests yet so I won't be able to respond as of yet until nearing the release date.
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/arc...8.aspx#9463300Quote:
Originally Posted by cphastings
SCSI-3 PR is necessary in R2 too!
Do you already know the ETA?Quote:
Originally Posted by To-M
Sorry that I don't as the engineers needed more time to add a few more items and I won't know until they inform us that they are satisfied with the results. We don't want to rush this out until they approve it.
Hi,
Out of curiosity (if you can share this info), are you implementing the LIO target, or are you writing additional support for the persistent reservations in SCST?
Thanks!
It is SCST.
After doing a little bit of googling, it seems that open-e is responsible for making qlogic fibre channel workable as a target under SCST (see http://scst.sourceforge.net/target_qla_isp.html ). On behalf of everyone who uses open source software, thanks open-e!
Also, it looks like some people at open-e have made contributions to the latest linux kernel, 2.6.29, so thanks for that!
This is just one reason among many to choose Open-E: they make contributions to open-source software, and that helps everybody.
Many thanks for the comments! We could use many as our engineers really try hard and for a small company they try harder to compete as best we can :)
I don't mean to bother, but has there been any update to this? I am incredibly excited about the possibility of SCSI-3 PR's! :D
I know you all have been extremely patient and we can't thank you enough for this. If you ask me on the 22nd or 23rd I might be able to get a beta release for you to test. Keep in mind we want this to be the best product release in the history of Open-E so we are doing allot for this new product release and don't want to rush without getting all the work completed.
Is there an ETA for the software release or is a beta available, because we are using an open-e DSS and want to prototype it for a windows 2008 failover cluster.
Best regards,
Jens Bliemeister
Beta should be out next week or following week.
how to receive beta for test windows 2008 failover cluster ?
thanks
regards
Send me an email and I will explain on how to get this and what we require from you to provide feed back as this is very important to our engineers to help them. Otherwise you can wait several weeks for a user beta release version.
Thany you for mail - I installed the beta release successfully on my USB stick, booted up the machine and had a first look at the new GUI - my first impression: wow :D ! Very improved design und usability.
All the rest (Win 2008 Clustering with SCSI-3) I'll test end of june after my holidays.
Many thanks for the comments :)
I'd like to get a hold of the latest beta to try out some 2008 clustering. Is it still available?
thanks