The 2009.Q3 software update is now available at the Sun Download Center. You can find the complete release notes here. A summary of the major new features is below:
Data protocols
- IP over Infiniband with supported HCAs
- NFS/RDMA preview for early adopters
- iSCSI enhancements (performance)
Data services
- User quotas
- Shadow migration
- Triple-parity RAID
- Triple mirroring
- Nested mountpoints
- Sharing by netgroup
- Enable/disable Logzilla per-share
Software features
- Enhanced MMC support
- Configuration backup/restore
- Faster cluster takeover time
- Non-DNS hostname resolution
- IPMP standby interfaces
- Syslog relay service
This update has broken iSCSI to my VMWare ESX 4.0 servers.... anyone else having this problem? I can no longer see my iSCSI luns from ESX4.
Posted by Matthew Weatherford on September 18, 2009 at 06:30 PM PDT #
@Matthew -
The iSCSI stack has changed significantly in this release and requires a one-time transition process to leverage the new model. For more information see:
http://blogs.sun.com/wdp/entry/comstar_iscsi
If you've already gone through this process and are still having problems, please open a support case with Sun.
Posted by Eric Schrock on September 19, 2009 at 08:42 AM PDT #
Keith's article on "Faster cluster takeover time" to which you've linked is very interesting as we've got a system similar to the one he describes. But we've seen a regression in failover time, now two hours, due to the ak:/nas/pool-0 import. Any ideas why that is happening?
Posted by Andrew Brooks on September 23, 2009 at 09:23 AM PDT #