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RE: License Capacity Query

3/7/2010 4:07:38 PM

Many thanks for the replies. Much appreciated.

RE: License Capacity Query

3/4/2010 4:28:55 PM

Hi jimboefx.

You can have as much storage on your Windows machine as you like, but the license pertains to what is being accessed by DataCore itself.

If you have 5 1TB drives in RAID5, providing roughly 4TB of space, then you would have approximately 3814GB of storage. You can provide that to DataCore as either a single LUN or if you want to use static volumes, you can split that up and have several volumes.

I typically have 2 extra drives for the OS and AIM Buffer Storage over and above the licenseable storage amount in my configurations.

Also, remember that you can 'serve up' MUCH more than the 4TB of your license to the application servers - especially now with the 1PB drives that are presented.

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,
Peter

jimboefx Wrote:I need to understand the capacity licensing. Hopefully you can help.

If I have a 4TB license - does the 4TB calculation come from the disks assigned to NMV pools? Is the calculation based on the disk size as seen by windows (as opposed to the raw disk used to create a raided volume)

Does that mean 4TB could be:
-4TB of raided volumes (e.g. 4 1TB volumes created by the raid card)
-4TB of jbod
-4TB of a mixture of raided volumes and jbod

Furthermore can I have more volumes available to windows (but not assigned to any datacore pool) without causing any error from datacore on exceeding license limits?

Feedback appreciated

RE: License Capacity Query

3/4/2010 2:37:14 PM

jimboefx Wrote:I need to understand the capacity licensing. Hopefully you can help.

If I have a 4TB license - does the 4TB calculation come from the disks assigned to NMV pools? Is the calculation based on the disk size as seen by windows (as opposed to the raw disk used to create a raided volume)

Does that mean 4TB could be:
-4TB of raided volumes (e.g. 4 1TB volumes created by the raid card)
-4TB of jbod
-4TB of a mixture of raided volumes and jbod

Furthermore can I have more volumes available to windows (but not assigned to any datacore pool) without causing any error from datacore on exceeding license limits?

Feedback appreciated

Hi,
the Storagelimit means only the NMV Pool added disks.

regards

License Capacity Query

3/4/2010 8:30:44 AM

I need to understand the capacity licensing. Hopefully you can help.

If I have a 4TB license - does the 4TB calculation come from the disks assigned to NMV pools? Is the calculation based on the disk size as seen by windows (as opposed to the raw disk used to create a raided volume)

Does that mean 4TB could be:
-4TB of raided volumes (e.g. 4 1TB volumes created by the raid card)
-4TB of jbod
-4TB of a mixture of raided volumes and jbod

Furthermore can I have more volumes available to windows (but not assigned to any datacore pool) without causing any error from datacore on exceeding license limits?

Feedback appreciated

Partnering x32 and x64

3/2/2010 8:33:45 AM

Is it even possible to partner between different OS architectures? My initial thought is that DataCore is really aware of the OS and certainly when communicating isn't concerned with the underlying storage. I have currently a primary x64 SDS. I have another server I'd like to put in for failover but it only supports 32 bit. It would merely be to keep things up, everything would be mapped primarily through the x64 node.

RE: Looking for DataCore SANmelody Expertise in the Boston Area

2/19/2010 1:13:42 PM

Good deal. As I mentioned, we are glad to come onsite and that is the preferred method obviously. We have 7 DCIEs and who most all are VCP3 and VCP4, Xen, Hyper-V certified as well.

Cheers! Craig

PSP3 for SANMelody 30-day Eval?

2/18/2010 6:48:26 AM

The SANMelody 3.0 docs clearly state that Windows Server 2008 R2 isn't supported as a storage server host OS unless PSP3 is applied. I'm building a lab with the 30-day eval - does that already include PSP3, and if not, where can I get it?

Cheers,

Alasdair C-S

RE: Hyper-V Server R2

2/18/2010 6:44:31 AM

Hi Ian,

IanGoodwin Wrote:The problem with DataCore MPIO and Windows 2008 Core / Hyper-V Server is that the .NET Framework v2 must be installed. This isn't supported by Microsoft however, there are ways to do it.

Not true in R2. R2 supports a subset of .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5. It's basically a complete stack minus the bits for things that you just can't/wouldn't do on server core:

System.Data.Design
System.Deployment.Application
System.Diagnostics.Design
System.Media
System.Messaging.*
System.Speech.*
System.Web.UI.Design.*
Design time support is unavailable, runtime support for expression builders is supported
System.Windows.*
UIAutomationClientsideProviders
Microsoft.Aspnet.Snapin
Microsoft.Ink
Microsoft.ManagementConsole.*
Microsoft.StylusInput.*
Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility.VB6
Microsoft.Windows.Themes
Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms
Microsoft.WindowsMobile.DirectX.*
System.ComponentModel.Design

In 3.0/3.5, WPF is not included (no surprise there, but I can conceive of problems with that if you've written e.g. ASP.NET 3.5 code that instantiates WPF types for image drawing or manipulation ), but WF, WCF and LINQ are in.

So, back to the point, is the DataCore MPIO supported on Windows 2008 R2 Server Core or Hyper-V Server 2008 R2? Well, that's a question for Datacore, but the big technical issue is that there's no MMC on Server Core...

Cheers,

Alasdair.

RE: Looking for DataCore SANmelody Expertise in the Boston Area

2/17/2010 1:01:21 PM

cjstein68 Wrote:I have several DCIE engineers who would be able to assist remotely or on-site on a scheduled basis.

We are located in Louisville, KY but can effectively work with you remotely.

craig.stein@mirazon.com

Hi Craig -- Thanks very much for your reply and offer to help. I appreciate your point about working effectively remotely, but would nevertheless like to find someone in this area, if possible. Failing that, I will definitely keep you and The Mirazon Group in mind. All the best, David