Over the last couple of months my team has been working hard with our partner and OEM, Hitachi Data Systems to help get native support for the AMS 500 in the operating system. MPxIO, our core path state and encapsulation technology with responsibility for high availability on a wide range of storage arrays now just works with the AMS as of build 84 of Open Solaris. This is a first because Hitachi was active in the development of the source and they contributed to the Open Solaris community. Additionally, we now cover nearly all mid-range and high end arrays in the Open Solaris operating system. Choice is something our customer demand.

I was at a high end retailer the other day and they were pleading for mid range support for the Hitachi arrays. They went on to articulate that every other bit of highly available storage just worked in Solaris and the only gap was mid-range Hitachi.

Give it a whirl if you are inclined. Yell at me with bugs. Need another array under MPxIO? Yell at me and we will guide you through the SCA, show you sample code and help you with the code review. The larger the community, the better for all.