Thanks for sending this information. Open-E as of last week passed the certification and are in the process of updating the website.

Open-E DSS iSCSI Target function was certification with VMware ESX 3.5. Open-E DSS FC and NAS features and functions are currently not certified, we will evaluate this at a later date but no set time frame has been established.

DSS LITE will not be certified as this is a free product. Please test with the DSS Demo-CD as this has a 60 day evaluation period and is the full version of our professional product providing 160TB storage support.


Specifications:

• Model: Open-E Data Storage Server
• Version: 5.0.DB44000000.3025
• Release Date: 2008-02-27
• Licensed Storage Capacity: 16TB

Intel SRS2500 server specifications:

• Intel SRS2500
• Intel S5000PAL
• Intel 1x Xeon 3.73GHz
• Bios Version s5000.86b.10.00.0084
• BIOS Build Date 10/17/2007
• 2GB Memory
• 2x Intel GbE Ethernet Controller 80003ES2LAN (Copper)
• LSI SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS
• 4x SATA Drives Seagate Model: ST3500630AS
• Raid-0 was used