StorageLink for Citrix

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09-13-2009, 04:26 PM
Klug

StorageLink for Citrix

Hello everyone.

Is a StorageLink driver for Citrix (XenServer and/or Essential) on the roadmap?
http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/pr...tentID=1687089

Considering the death of VirtualIron, many users are switching to XenServer (avoiding VMware) and having an Open-E StorageLink would be a big plug...

Especially when products like Datacore have one.
http://www.datacore.com/pressroom/pr...ate=05/06/2009
09-13-2009, 04:29 PM
Klug

Additional link : http://community.citrix.com/display/...ix+StorageLink
10-05-2009, 03:16 PM
Klug

NexentaStor does it too.
http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.ph...299&Itemid=185
11-14-2009, 09:31 PM
David

XenServer Storage automation

I agree. We are moving from VI to XenServer and that would be a very desirable feature....
11-26-2009, 03:41 PM
To-M

Just wanted you all to know that we are looking into - just give us some time as we have sooo many requests and cant do them in short order. Thanks for bringing this topic up atleast we know some of you are needing it and that helps us to position this feature :)
11-26-2009, 05:43 PM
webguyz

We are looking for Citrix capability as well. Maybe there should be a poll? ;)
12-02-2009, 10:57 PM
Diakiao

Ditto! We are looking on moving to Citrix from VI ourselves. So heres another vote for the pot!
04-09-2010, 03:47 PM
webguyz

It been 4 months. Anything new on the StorageLink front?
04-12-2010, 05:11 PM
gregg_hughes

Me, too!

We're re-evaluating alternatives to VI - it's running well for us, but we need a solution that's introducing new technologies and capabilities - and really cheap! We have a couple of Xen servers running and that's a good possibility. StorageLink would make it much easier to implement Citrix XenServer for us.
05-03-2010, 06:05 AM
webguyz

While its not Storagelink, the latest version of DSS V6 build 4362 and build 4221 supports Xenserver using SCST instead of having to use IET as was the case before.
09-13-2010, 11:06 AM
rogerk

are there any updates regarding storagelink und open-e?

rogerk
09-13-2010, 05:29 PM
SeanLeyne

I have seen posts from others that they are using Open-E/DSS with Xen servers, through iSCSI I imagine...

Is a special driver really required?
09-14-2010, 12:26 PM
webguyz

If you want to do multipath then its easier with a Storagelink defined driver. Otherwise you have to get into the xenserver OS and play around with multipath yourself.
09-30-2010, 05:44 PM
Inflecto

Quote:

Originally Posted by To-M

Just wanted you all to know that we are looking into - just give us some time as we have sooo many requests and cant do them in short order. Thanks for bringing this topic up atleast we know some of you are needing it and that helps us to position this feature :)

Any update on this? Its been a while!
01-02-2011, 04:35 PM
black7mt

This is really helpful thank you all
01-20-2011, 07:28 PM
Nick

Quote:

Originally Posted by webguyz

While its not Storagelink, the latest version of DSS V6 build 4362 and build 4221 supports Xenserver using SCST instead of having to use IET as was the case before.

afaik XENserver currently supports IET only, maybe you have full SCST support with a XEN enabled Linux distro like Fedora or Debian?! I'm not 100% sure about that but we had massive problems with openE+SCST+XENserver so I decided to use IET and everything went fine.
01-20-2011, 07:54 PM
To-M

Nick,

Jumping in here, I just got 2 customers working from IET to SCST on the latest build of 5087

If you want I can post here but I have not edited it to perfection as there a side notes - let me know if you want me to.