If you experience a really long booting process of your VMware ESX 5.0 servers that are connected to the DSS V6 iSCSI targets, try to remove the VMKernel Port Bindings - see the images below. Please also make sure that in the iSCSI initiator properties you use is set to Static...

If you experience random VM freezes lasting a few seconds, it would be good idea to check if the XenServer has a valid network card driver. As a result you may see the following errors: 2011-03-28 12:06:16 Kernel.Info 172.16.100.101 kernel: connection16:0: iscsi: detected conn error (1011)...

Problem:   I have Citrix Xenserver and would like to use Hyper-V with my Open-E DSS V6. But The XENserver is using IET, while the Hyper-V is using SCST for the ISCSI daemon.   How can I use both machines? Can I use SCST and IET at the same time? Solution: IET and SCST can not be used...

Symptom:  I am using a Qlogic  4GB Fibre channel card along with Virtual Iron and DSS, During high I/O the DSS stops working and the Virtual Iron server disconnects. I then cannot access the DSS and must reboot the server to access it. Problem: The scst service (Fibre channel)...

Symptom: I have an ISCSI fail-over setup running on Open-E. The virtual interface is on a bonding interface . On the storage are VM which are running in Vmware ESX. When starting three vm's on the hardware nodes storage becomes unstable and we are getting the errors below in open-e. Event group...

Yes, Open-E software is compatible with Virtual Iron. We are also certified for VI version 4.3. Please refer to the attached document for an example case study.

Please refer to the attached case study for a successful scenario.

Symptom: I am using Virtual Iron to connect to 2 DSS servers. I am getting the same Unique ID number for LUNs in different DSS servers and Virtual Iron is confused. Solution: Apply update 0257-dss_b.upd to DSS and then use the testing kernel. You can get the update file right here on...