vSphere 4.1 ?

4.0u1 seems to have an iSCSI bug which a Dell engineer mentioned when using the built-in one and we desperatly want to wait with the new cluster (using Dell SANs) until we have the new Dell firmware and vSphere release.

Did ANYONE heard ANYTHING about a release date ? Dell intends to release a new firmware which works with certain features in 4.1 and the firmware release is due today I believe so I HOPED that is an indication for the vSphere release but I don't see an announcement ANYWHERE ...

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astorrs

Q3-2010

jibbajabba

astorrs wrote: »

Q3-2010

$%^£

astorrs

Gomjaba wrote: »

$%^£

Well Q3 could be anything from July 1st to September 30th.... I would target somewhere in late July/early August - a few weeks before VMworld in SFO.

jibbajabba

Yea I know. It is just quite frustrating. We had a San blowing up and now run on single hosts on local storage. Now I have a new shiny set of SANs here with the hard decision to make to either wait for the release and risk running server on local storage or implement the setup and risk running into the same bugs. Meh. Should have gone into pigfarming

tiersten

Gomjaba wrote: »

Should have gone into pigfarming

Got some bodies to dispose of then eh? Brick Top?

jibbajabba

tiersten wrote: »

Got some bodies to dispose of then eh? Brick Top?

haha not quite .. just a saying here when we are fed up here... Someone found a pig farming job online once with regular working hours and no weekends (by accident lol) .. Since then we always tend to go towards pigfarming

Sunshine_54

Are you talking about a bug with the iscsi software initiator? I know these things aren't cheap, but maybe you should consider purchasing an ISCSI HBA card. They're not cheap but you'll find the performance is ALOT better.....

jibbajabba

Until now we were running QLogic Dual HBA. As part of this project we have evaluated several iSCSI Sans (Dell,Sun,iStor and even Wudss) and the software initiator was always better in performance. Dell also released some comparison somewhere. We didn't believe it ourselves until we run those tests.

blargoe

You could run 3.5 U5 and wait for 4.1 and not worry about the bugs

jibbajabba

blargoe wrote: »

You could run 3.5 U5 and wait for 4.1 and not worry about the bugs

We can't. We are hosting partner using VSPP licenses and only got vSphere ones .. Not sure if we can get 3.5 licenses as well, would have to check, but we cannot really afford installing 3.5 first and then upgrade. Could open a whole different can of worms. Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt [1]

[1] and had to throw it away because it was kaputt

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