The feature request thread!!!

[r3vo]

It would be awesome, if it's possible, to integrate the Adaptec Storage Manager into the DSSv6 to control the H/W Raid controllers of Adaptec by remote and with the software of Open-E.

Is there any way to do this?

[webguyz]

The raid card would have to have a web based admin program like areca or 3ware do. Adaptec does not have that.

[PaulMacD]

Friendly log messages
Many-way, LAN/WAN replication/failover
The ability to give "friendly names" to interfaces, disk units, volumes
Network information connection specifics (link type, link speed) in the web GUI

[pfeifferl]

active-active iSCSI cluster (e.g. a kind of RAID over 2 machines), storage virtualization.

[Robotbeat]

The allocation of IO resources to volume initialization is something that really needs addressed.

Apparently, the latest release candidate takes care of this on the ftp server (it's in beta, now). I haven't tried this out, but this should soon make its way to a full release, available via software update (online update).

Active-active replication is possible, but would require something like a SAN filesystem anyway, so it wouldn't be that useful (active-active replication is available in drbd, which open-e uses) for the most part.

Another nice feature which just came out in drbd is the ability to do replication via low-latency infiniband (not just infiniband-over-ip), using the sockets direct protocol. This is really neat, and is something that other SAN providers are working on for next-gen very high performance systems. We don't have any customers that need something like this, but it would be a good way to all but completely mitigate the performance hit from replication.