HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System and CIFS

[Emil Velez]

The exds is based on SUSE Linux but the standard Polyserve product which EXDS is based on is available in two flavors Windows and Linux and in the windows flavor with the File Serving Solution Pack it speaks CIFS natively. In addition it does have a option for SQL server failover and management and version 3.6.2 now supports SQL 2008.

May be able to get the NAS 4400 in a windows flavor too. I think EXDS may be just Linux based.

[macosta]

The current version of ExDS (v1.0.2) is based on RHEL 4.4. The next release, v2.0, will be based on RHEL 5.2 initially.

For ExDS, you can get a CIFS option (failover-only with the current version) - with v2, Samba CTDB will be included, meaning scale-out CIFS serving, which does not yet exist in an image solution with Cluster Gateway/EFS, although you could always add-on yourself.

The CGW/EFS system images are still based on SLES9/10 (depending on version - 3.5.1 is on SLES9, 3.7.0 is on SLES10.)

As always, if you check with your rep, you can get better details on specific use-cases.

[Patrick Terlisten]

Hello,

if I understand you right: CIFS will be native supported in v2, but currently only v1.0.2 is available? CIFS support in v1.0.2 can be used with SAMBA? It this right?

Thanks for you help.

Best regards,
Patrick

[macosta]

Hi Patrick,

In both cases Samba can be used. In 1.0.2, you can manually configure Samba. In 2.0, Samba will also be used, but it will be intergrated into the ExDS management utilities, simplifying setup.

[Patrick Terlisten]

Hello macosta,

thanks. Now it's clear.

Best regards,
Patrick