iSER / SRP support?

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ipleini
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Tue Mar 10, 2020 9:52 am

Guys any chance to hear about your plans to support either iSER or SRP? Or both? :) Thanks a bunch!
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yaroslav (staff)
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Wed Mar 11, 2020 2:15 pm

Hello

StarWind VSAN supports iSER (here is the guide on how to enable it https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resour ... r-hyper-v/).
No SRP yet though :( .
mahuan1688
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Thu Mar 12, 2020 6:33 am

When starwind v8.13481 is installed, Iser option cannot be started. It is gray. How to set parameter to start Iser option

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yaroslav (staff)
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Thu Mar 12, 2020 8:22 am

Your physical network adapters need to support RDMA. If those connections go through switches, switches are to support RDMA too.

Does your networking gear support RDMA?
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Mon Mar 16, 2020 9:29 am

thanks! I Know!
yaroslav (staff)
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Mon Mar 16, 2020 9:59 am

There may be several reasons why iSER checkbox is grayed-out.
1. Host or partner may not support it. One more time, make sure that networking can work over RDMA. Run Get-NetAdapterRdma (find more details about this cmdlet here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powers ... w=win10-ps). Please make sure that NICs you use support iSER.
2. iSER.dll library may be missing or modified (it should be here C:\Program Files\StarWind Software\StarWind)

Should you require any other assistance, let me know.
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Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:18 am

Guys any chance to hear about your plans to support either iSER or SRP? Or both? :) Thanks a bunch!
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Mon Jun 15, 2020 12:14 pm

iSER works in StarWind for synchronisation channels for quite some time. You can configure incoming connections with iSER where hypervisor / OS supports this functionality (VMware ESXi since 6.7, KVM and Xen), there's no Hyper-V incoming connections iSER support though and I don't think we'll do it. We're switching to NVMe-oF for both backbone (sync) and incoming connections (same set of the OSes/hypervisors + we have our own NVMe-oF initiator for Hyper-V / Windows Server). There won't be any SRP support anytime as it's a dead tech...
squadmind wrote:Guys any chance to hear about your plans to support either iSER or SRP? Or both? :) Thanks a bunch!
Regards,
Anton Kolomyeytsev

Chief Technology Officer & Chief Architect, StarWind Software

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