Comments on: VMworld 2007 IP-Based Storage Sessions

By: Mimmus

Mimmus — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:57:22 +0000

Hi,
has anyone idea if NFS load-balancing issues descripted in “PS_IP43_Building Virtual Infrastructures with Network Attached Storage” apply to iSCSI also?
I especially mean NIC teaming and load balancing policies considerations.

By: Fritz

Fritz — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:49:35 +0000

Go into vsish and type ‘help’ — you’ll get a listing of valid commands. The MCE ‘grab’ functionality is just a small part of what vsish can do. You cd to various nodes (like directories), then do a get operation (for example) to see the status of a leaf node. Tab for node completion works on this. It’s kind of cool.

By: slowe

slowe — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:19:47 +0000

Fritz,

Any pointers as to where I can get more information on vsish?

By: Fritz

Fritz — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:55:13 +0000

vsish is a command to grab system reliability information, kind of the equivalent to mcelog in Linux.

By: slowe

slowe — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:14:53 +0000

Kevin,

I also hope that 3.5 has some serious iSCSI fixes. Jumbo frames is a BIG one that needs to be added, as is support for MCS (multiple connections per session). Here’s hoping…

Thanks for reading!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:40:40 +0000

The only problem with this session was the presenters. I hope they fine someone better at reading the stuff than the engineers they had. Have the engineers there for questions only!

I had heard that JF’s weren’t supported at the Equallogic’s session and couldn’t believe it. I also didn’t realize only two hardware HBA’s were only supported at this time. I hope 3.5 has some big fixes for iSCSI. Thanks for all your blogging!