Again, ssh (or other api) support is very, very important in any block-level-access scenario like:
- attaching a server (linux oo windows) to an iSCSI or fc-lun
- attaching any virtualizing platform (VMware, Microsoft, Oracle, XEN, ..) via iSCSI or FC
reason:
if you like to use the storage snapshot capabilities you HAVE to syncronize the server state (RAM, Disk-Cache) with the underlaying storage BEFORE creating a (useful) storage snapshot.
Without that support (via ssh or api) the open-e snapshots are almost senseless in above scenarios