Hi Joe, Andy
Joe Landman wrote:
Hi Andy
Andrey Gorchivkin wrote:
Great progress Rafiu,
TYVM.
Although OpenFiler is getting stronger with its new features I'm still
missing some crucial elements that were mentioned previously to be
part of
v2.2. It would be nice if we can see LUN control on iSCSI volumes
soon for
better support over VMware ESX 3 infrastructure (LUNs are still being
reset
to the value of 0 whenever a change is made to the iSCSI volumes).
I think this might have something to do with the 0x80 VPD thing
(although I'm not entirely certain having no experience with ESX).
There's a fix that allows for setting a unique serial ID, I can put
that in pretty easily. When you say LUN control, do you mean adding a
new LUN to an existing target rather than creating a new target for
every new iSCSI volume created?
Another
useful feature would be network load balancing setup via main web
interface.
This is something I need (network load balancing) as well. I was
going to take a stab at this in the next few weeks
You might want to hold off on doing this. Someone has commissioned this
work in the past week. However I don't mind you implementing it while I
pocket the cheque ;) Ethics? Yeah I've heard of 'em.
(I have to finish doing a MB/GB/TB/PB patch for size reporting). I am
doing this by hand now. However, what I am doing can be (easily)
recrafted into a perl script. This in turn could be easily driven by a
web page.
I'm not sure if there are any plans for extending High Availability
features
in the near future
Not very near future no. But certainly for 3.0 (rewrite) we'll have full
clustering management in the GUI.
but in my opinion advanced administrators would find it
very useful to see features like failover between two OF boxes
connected to
a single backend storage.
OK, this can already be achieved albeit with limited management from
within the GUI. Most administrative tasks have to happen at the CLI.
Such features are already being used at almost all
professional solutions like NetApp, EMC, etc., but I believe similar
functionalities can be implemented within OF as well.
We'll get there eventually :)
This is also something we would find useful.
Cheerio
R.
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