vSphere 4 - Support on the Way?

[jsinclair]

Todd -
Sounds great. Will V6 be available before the 60 day trial ends? Can I purchase a key direct, or through a reseller?

Thanks again!

[To-M]

DSS V6 will be available before the 60 day trial ends and you will need to purchase thru a reseller of distributor for your location from link below.

http://www.open-e.com/partners/solution-providers/

or

http://www.open-e.com/where-to-buy/distributors/

[cschiff]

Todd,

If we currently have version 5, do we have to purchase version 6 or will this be a free upgrade?

Thx,

Christian

[To-M]

I know that there will be an upgrade cost but not sure how this will be as I don't handle the pricing. Pricing will be announced later.

[gregg_hughes]

Is there any word or doc on what's in v6.x? What changes from the v5.x?
I'd like to see changes so we can prepare and decide.

Gregg

[To-M]

We will have the list ready in July as we are still working on many other issues. Mainly new iSCSI target (SCST), Persistent Reservations for Win. 2008, NDMP ver. 4 and new GUI.

[jsinclair]

I have upgraded to vSphere 4 and I am currently running with 4 x ESXi 4 servers and 2 x Dell 2950 w/ DSS v 6. The volumes are sync replicated with iscsi failover. There have been no issues so far, but I haven't migrated all the machines (just a few) over to the DSS SAN. Once everything is migrated, I will let it run and send the logs.

Todd - Are you anticipating a July release of v. 6? I just want to ask (one more time) before I move production data on it :-)

Also - as far as my iscsi config, should I use SCST instead of IETD? If the volumes are setup with File I/O and initialized, should I also configure in the console, tuning, to use File I/O with iscsi? Just wanted to make sure...

Thanks again!

Jason