StorageLink for Citrix

[webguyz]

It been 4 months. Anything new on the StorageLink front?

[gregg_hughes]

We're re-evaluating alternatives to VI - it's running well for us, but we need a solution that's introducing new technologies and capabilities - and really cheap! We have a couple of Xen servers running and that's a good possibility. StorageLink would make it much easier to implement Citrix XenServer for us.

[webguyz]

While its not Storagelink, the latest version of DSS V6 build 4362 and build 4221 supports Xenserver using SCST instead of having to use IET as was the case before.

[rogerk]

are there any updates regarding storagelink und open-e?

rogerk

[SeanLeyne]

I have seen posts from others that they are using Open-E/DSS with Xen servers, through iSCSI I imagine...

Is a special driver really required?

[webguyz]

If you want to do multipath then its easier with a Storagelink defined driver. Otherwise you have to get into the xenserver OS and play around with multipath yourself.

[black7mt]

This is really helpful thank you all

[Nick]

While its not Storagelink, the latest version of DSS V6 build 4362 and build 4221 supports Xenserver using SCST instead of having to use IET as was the case before.

afaik XENserver currently supports IET only, maybe you have full SCST support with a XEN enabled Linux distro like Fedora or Debian?! I'm not 100% sure about that but we had massive problems with openE+SCST+XENserver so I decided to use IET and everything went fine.

[To-M]

Nick,

Jumping in here, I just got 2 customers working from IET to SCST on the latest build of 5087

If you want I can post here but I have not edited it to perfection as there a side notes - let me know if you want me to.