Initiator (iSCSI, FCoE, AoE, iSER and NVMe over Fabrics), iSCSI accelerator and RAM disk
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warhed
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- Joined: Thu May 01, 2008 4:18 pm
Tue May 13, 2008 9:21 pm
Hello,
I have not tried this but I wanted to ask before embarking on what could be a large waste of time.
Is there a way for Starport to create a file image on two redundant systems in which two ESX servers can connect to the store at the same time, thus providing real time fail over?
I noticed an option for multiple connections and clustering, but I am unfamiliar with clustering completely and just wanted to know if I am wasting my time as this may not be the way to go, or there is a limitation in ESX and/or Starport.
Hope I explained this clearly.
Thanks!
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aaron (staff)
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- Joined: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:13 am
- Location: BVI
Wed May 14, 2008 8:42 am
We're currently testing new feature of the StarPort - heterogenous mirror. You'll be able to RAID1 remote iSCSI connection and local hard disk drive or remote AoE and iSCSI volumes. But for now there's a BIG problem with MS (actually Veritas) LVM-based RAID implementations - network stack starts MUCH later then storage stack so there's no way to wake up machine reliably - you'll get broken mirror with need to re-sync volumes in nearly 100% of the cases. But we'll workaround this
warhed wrote:Hello,
I have not tried this but I wanted to ask before embarking on what could be a large waste of time.
Is there a way for Starport to create a file image on two redundant systems in which two ESX servers can connect to the store at the same time, thus providing real time fail over?
I noticed an option for multiple connections and clustering, but I am unfamiliar with clustering completely and just wanted to know if I am wasting my time as this may not be the way to go, or there is a limitation in ESX and/or Starport.
Hope I explained this clearly.
Thanks!
Regards,
Aaron Korfer
Sales & Support
Rocket Division Software