vSphere 4 - Support on the Way?

[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

[To-M]

Jason,

Thanks for testing this for our engineers as we have not had the time and are pushing the final release for the first or second week of July - without fail!

I would use the SCST (Default in DSS V6) and with File IO. If you create them in begging you should not have to switch them and if possible do the initialization in the begging as well.
Though you can switch in the tuning console, I like to get it all done before you do replications and other function.