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

Calling All Engineers Out There!!

I have a beta version of V6 w/ the persistent reservation and we can sure use some help as we cant test all environments.
Many of you have been waiting for this and our developers pushed the schedules around to get this out to you all.

If you are interested and want to help and be recognized :) send me or the other moderators a privet email or send in an email to support and we will send you this beta version.

You will need 2 x DSS v6 and your MS Cluster / Hyper-V servers.

All reports can be posted to support and from here as we will collect them.

Thanks guys!

Todd

Did this ever get released?

Official release is yet to come. Currently it is in tests phase.

Thanks. So there's life in DSS v6 yet. Will it be this side of the New Year? (planning)

I had never used this version.How is it working..????????????

Eagerly awaiting the release.
Any news on when?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

I believe MS has Beacon Probing and is the key point which is a network failover detection mechanism that sends out and listens for beacon probes on all the NICs in the setup and uses this information to determine link failure. Thus the reason that Beacon probing does not need a switch.

Hi Todd!
Is there a release out yet which solves the Persistent Reservation issue?

Yep, got a Beta version, sending your way via forum email :)

Sorry to bump an old thread, but has this been released yet? And if so, has it been released for DSS7 also?

DSS V7 supports persistent reservations.

Thanks, I am planning on upgrading to DSS7.