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Hello,

We have been running Open-E v6 FULL on our PowerEdge 2950 for a few years now, and it works just fine. I seem to remember that there is a single spare SATA socket on the motherboard, so...

OK, I shall give it a go!

I am in talks with the SAN vendor (Open-E) to get them to enable read-only mounting of LUNS for this purpose.

Thanks again,

TFZ

Hi there,

If I were you, I would seriously consider moving each MPIO path to a different subnet, since VMARE and OPEN-E will not know which adapter to send the traffic out on, since they all share...

I don't believe you should enable write back cache if you are intending to use iSCSI failover, as the pop-up dialog suggests.

Best regards

Alex

Thanks for your reply.

While I appreciate this is possible I am VERY concerned that the Windows XP box we have running Veeam might, in an extreme case, write to the VMFS ISCSI LUN in some way...

Hi there,

As the message suggests when you go to enable Write Back mode, I would suggest you invest in a decent UPS to power your SAN. This will ensure Open-E has time to gracefully flush its...

If you place a single gigabit card in both the primary and secondary, then with a fast enough disk array at each end, you will easily saturate the gigabit ethernet connection.

I have two DSS...

Hi there,

Perhaps I have mis-read your question, but I don't believe Open-E yet supports software RAID10? Unless this has changed in the latest release?

Do you actually mean that your primary...

Have a look here:

http://www.open-e.com/library/how-to-resources/

You will need to log in to download the paper titled "2010.02 Open-E DSS V6 MPIO with ESX4".

Best regards

TFZ

Hi There,

The answer to your question, I believe, is YES :-)

There is a good white-paper on the open-e knowledge base on this topic.

We have a single ESXi 4 box with numerous NIC's including...

Hi all,

I'm evaluating the Veeam Backup & Recovery software package. This has native support of the vSphere Disk API and so can perform backups of VM's stored on a SAN and running on ESXi 4.1...

If you have any form of write cache enabled, then beware that what you may measure is the rate at which you can write to DSS's cache rather than to the disks. Once that cache fills up, you then start...

HI there,

What controller are you using? Is it a hardware RAID controller? How are the disks configured if it is a RAID array?

Cheers

TFZ

I'n my simple mind, it would stand to reason that the DSS must have the same number of connections (network cards) as the servers have I.e. four cards in the DSS with IP's 10.0.1.10 10.0.2.10...

Hi there,

We're about to setup a Dell 2950 with PERc5 or PERC6 controller and would really appreciate it if you could tell us if you had any siccess with your Dell 1950 + PERC 5 configuration?
...

Hi there,

Did you ever get any results for the 2950? were you using a Dell PERC 5 or 6 controller?

Best regards

TFZ

Hi there,

Did you ever resolve this problem?

Is this not an issue if you boot off a USB-DOM instead of the PERC?

Thanks

TFZ

hi there,

We're going to jump ship from SCA-2 interface drives to SAS since our controller is getting a "little long in the tooth" and would like to take advantage of the PERC 5 or PERC6 support...

Hi all,

We currently use a Dell PERC4/DC Hardware RAID card with our array (a PowerVault 220S with 8x Fujitsu 15Krpm SCA-2 disks).

I may have to replace this card and am looking for an...

Hello, you could enable MPIO support in ESXi (I use ESXi 4) and enabling MPIO allows the traffic to be round-robin load balanced across multiple connections between open-e and your vmware server. ...

Hi there,

Something you may also want to consider....

I have a number of virtual machines and other systems that backup to a single SMB share on my open-e DSS v6 LITE system.

At a remote...

Hi Nismo,

Thank you for your reply. Starwinds software has a clever iSCSI RAID0 technology where they stripe data across multiple volumes (perhaps on multiple SAN's), that when re-combined by the...

Hello everyone,

I'm still looking for an MPIO iSCSI driver alternative to the MS one as this does not support Windows 7.

Wikipedia lists a number of MPIO software implementations here:
...

Hello again Tore,

The StarPort product appears not to support MPIO according to the StarWind forum, can you confirm that you have used this product in a multipathing configuration?
...

Hello Tore,

That's brilliant news!! I'll give it a go.

Best regards

TFZ