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justingeren
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Mon Jan 26, 2015 3:05 am

Do you have any plans to open source StarPort? If you're not expanding it - somebody else could do it :)
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Mon Jan 26, 2015 9:47 pm

Not really... See it's based on unsupported "monolithic port driver" model so while this model can provide maximum performance and best control over I/O path there's virtually no way to get such a driver WHQL-ed and certified by Microsoft. Making long story short: not a good "basement" for any future development.
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paulaugust
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Tue Feb 02, 2016 9:20 am

Do you plan to support iSER on rewritten as StorPort miniport StarPort (sick!). Thanks! ;)
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Thu Feb 04, 2016 6:18 pm

Yes eventually.
paulaugust wrote:Do you plan to support iSER on rewritten as StorPort miniport StarPort (sick!). Thanks! ;)
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theedge103
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Thu Jul 13, 2017 8:00 pm

Soooo..

Have you had any progress on iSER rewritten yet? Looking to use iSER in Windows (as an initiator) and have not found a solution yet.

Cheers.

Jay
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Fri Jul 14, 2017 7:45 am

Yes, StarWind vSAN has user-mode polling iSER initiator built-in and we use all back end synchronizations over iSER / RDMA if hardware is compatible (RoCE & RoCEv2, iWARP has Network Direct v1 currently so isn't supported yet - waiting for Chelsea to upgrade their drivers to do NDv2).
theedge103 wrote:Soooo..

Have you had any progress on iSER rewritten yet? Looking to use iSER in Windows (as an initiator) and have not found a solution yet.

Cheers.

Jay
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Chief Technology Officer & Chief Architect, StarWind Software

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