iSER / SRP support?

[ipleini]

Guys any chance to hear about your plans to support either iSER or SRP? Or both? Thanks a bunch!

[yaroslav (staff)]

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]

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

[yaroslav (staff)]

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?

[mahuan1688]

thanks! I Know!

[yaroslav (staff)]

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.

[squadmind]

Guys any chance to hear about your plans to support either iSER or SRP? Or both? Thanks a bunch!

[anton (staff)]

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...

Guys any chance to hear about your plans to support either iSER or SRP? Or both? Thanks a bunch!