Re: [storage-discuss] comstar/iscsi multiple initiators, one target.

2010-01-21 Thread Eugene Vilensky
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:25 AM, seth ninja.c...@gmail.com wrote: Hel, hopefully a simple question. Our current network is NFS, with 8 frontends that are read only to an NFS share. There is a single internal CMS server that has write access to this share. This share is getting over worked

Re: [storage-discuss] mpio on win2003

2010-01-17 Thread Eugene Vilensky
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Younes ynag...@gmail.com wrote: I've looked all over, and I cant anything for 2003! At this point I'm not sure what to try next! A storage vendor who offers a Windows 2003 DSM for Windows MPIO for their storage or upgrading to the MPIO capabilities included

Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris-vmware

2010-01-11 Thread Eugene Vilensky
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Greg gregory.dur...@gmail.com wrote: we have exchange 2007 virtualized and through its iSCSI initiator we are mounting two LUNs one for the database and another for the Logs, all on different arrays of course. Any how we are then snapshotting this data

Re: [storage-discuss] mpio on win2003

2010-01-11 Thread Eugene Vilensky
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Younes ynag...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have Comstar running as an FC and iSCSI target. I'm trying to setup mpio on Win 2003, and I can't seem to find a way. Presented disks are seen as 2 disks in windows. Native (Microsoft-provided) FC initiator MPIO

Re: [storage-discuss] opensolaris-vmware

2010-01-11 Thread Eugene Vilensky
What is the best way to quiesce the vm's, other than shutting them down to back them up. Coordination of the vmsnapshot with back-end snapshots. routines flush all buffers and ensure consistency of supported operating systems. You can run custom scripts from within the guest or externally from