W8K Cluster

[jon hatton-brown]

I can let you know soon. I'm in the process of doing this with seven Hyper-v R2 core hosts and two dss servers in a failover.

[webguyz]

Please share as we are about to start embarking on this as well. I ordered parts to set up 2 small test V6 DSS's and a 2008 R2 test server but always looking for experiences about setting this up. We currently have a single production DSS and don't want to make any mistakes when it comes time to implement the autofailover

Thanks!

[TheDonMiguel]

Hello

I'm using Open-E DSS 6 Lite with two Hyper-V 208 R2 cluster nodes. CSV, Live Migration and all the features are working very good with DSS. I created a blog post (German) about the setup: http://www.server-talk.eu/2009/10/15...s-mit-hyper-v/

Cheers

[pfeifferl]

We're still working on it ...

BTW: There is a new release of DSS: dss6.0up14_b4112 !

Another question: Has anyone performance tuning tipps? Which parameters (networking, LV options, ...) are optimal for Hyper-V? Is adding more RAM to DSS (autofailover, only iSCSI block IO) boosting the (replication?) performance? Is bonding for replication better?

[pfeifferl]

DSS
2010-02-05 6.0 up14 build4112
Release notes:
NEW:
* Support for volume replication with logical volumes up to 16 TB
* Support for iSCSI failover with logical volumes up to 16 TB
* 3Ware/LSI MegaRAID logs are now part of the log package available after clicking "Download" under STATUS -> hardware -> Logs
* After starting the failover functionality, a check is now initiated to make sure target names, LUNs and SCSI IDs match on both nodes
* Support for 8 Gbit FC Qlogic HBAs as initiators and targets
UPDATED:
* New kernel (2.6.27.39)
* Intel PCI Express NIC driver (e1000e v1.0.15)
FIXED:
* Remote support connection no longer timeouts after 30 seconds
* File I/O iSCSI volumes and FC volumes no longer overload the system during initialization
* System now shuts down correctly when connected to an iSCSI target via the built-in iSCSI initiator
TESTING:
* Support for Accusys
* Support for ATTO FC/SATA
* Support for Marvell SATA

[nightmare99]

BTW: There is a new release of DSS: dss6.0up14_b4112 !

We currently are running 3902 and have the issue where file-io iscsi inits overload the system. Can we go straight from 3902 to 4112 using the automatic update? A user in another thread stated he had to do a kind of re-install to go from 35xx to 4xxx

Regards

[JonMoore87]

I'm on b4023 but when I click update now I get "no updates available" anyone else got that?


Jon

[nightmare99]

I'm on b4023 but when I click update now I get "no updates available" anyone else got that?

Yes basically that is where I am at, I would guess pfeifferl has been granted access to a iso that has not been published yet.

[JonMoore87]

Hmm... I'd like to get that update as I'd love to be able to access the LSI logs

[pfeifferl]

Yes, sorry, I forgot - it is still RC. You can get it from >> ftp://ftp.open-e.com/In_Engineering_Phase/

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