The certification is great news.
Can I ask if there's any thought to certifying DSS running on the Intel SSR212MC2?
I guess this is a question for Open-E and Intel combined.

I know Intel have done ESX running on SSR212MC2 hardware, and now Open-E have done ESX connected to DSS running on a standard Intel hardware platform.

Some cutomers may still say that the OPen-E certification config (SR2500+S5000PAL) is close but not the same as what our company is tying to sell them (the SSR212SSR has a Xyratex chassis/enclosure management+S5000PSL+etc). We would say to them that it's "effectively" the same so they should be comfortable with that, but would have to agree that it's not identical.

How do you think we should handle this situation?
Thanks for the help.