FC Target

[gharding]

Hi Tom,

I have not used the FC target with Vmware ESX server yet, at the moment we are using SQL, EXCHANGE and Progress Database Servers connecting by FC to DSS with volume replication and it works really well. Our Vmware VI 3 servers at the moment are running vm's from iscsi with replication and once again no problems. I am getting more fibre cards in this week and hope to start testing vmware with FC. I will keep you posted if I managed to find a solution.

I will add that initially I had to do a factory reset on the cards in the DSS server then set them in DSS as targets and then reboot the DSS server. Then Created some FC Groups, created WWN Aliases add the Aliases to the FC Group. Created the FC Volumes (do not select initialize otherwise you will not see them) assigned the FC volumes to the FC Group. Then on the clients I just installed the card and the LUN's appeared without having to configure the cards.

Regards

Gavin

[To-M]

Thanks for the update, have you tested 1.30 DSS in the "Engineering_phase" directory? Final release is scheduled next. Also this would be good to add in the VMware section - looks like you are ahead of most .

[gharding]

Hi Todd, no I havent looked at 1.30 yet what are the changes / updates that are in this release. Do I use the normal FTP details previously supplied to me?

Regards

Gavin

[To-M]

Yes same FTP - go to /In_Engineering_Phase/DSS_ver_1_30_b_2783_beta


Preliminary release notes of DSS ver.1.30

NEW:
• synchronous (on-line) replication for NAS volumes
• Improved error/warning notification system
• Web Console Tool for LSI SAS management on the WebGUI
• Improved Intel SSR212MC2 ("McKay Creek" server) monitoring
• Support for block I/O for iSCSI protocol
• Support for 4k block size in FC protocol

UPDATED:
- improved schedule for restart and shutdown
- intel NIC drivers

FIXED
• support for Windows PDC/ADS domains (including trusted domains)
- soft raid0 problem with physical unit larger than 4TB

[gharding]

Hi Todd,

I think I will wait until they have support for the 4GB FC Cards which is what we are really wanting and the realtime failover which I thought was going to be this month or has the dates change on these two options?

Regards

Gavin

[To-M]

Update!!! This has been rescheduled and no set date will be announced. We request that all inquiries to this subject be on hold. Thank you for understanding this issue. No further details are available concerning the Auto Failover.

Please disregard any dates to this subject!!

"Failover was delayed and is expected in September"

[gharding]

What about the Qlogic 4GB FC cards are they still expected this month?

Regards

Gavin