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IET – is it really as bad as it all seems

After my blog post earlier this week about some of the dangers of 3rd party, unsupport iSCSI targets. Scott Herold of vmguru.com and the Advanced Technical Design Guide for ESX 2 – got in touch. He rather helpfully pointed out that the latest release of IET might actually address some the concerns about how IET handles SCSI Reservation Commands…

This is what Scott said:

“As I understand it, as long as you are using 0.4.15 (released April 14, 2007), the proper patches have been integrated to properly handle the reserve/release issues for IET.  It is still not certified, but at least the chance of corruption is significantly lowered.”

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=108475&release_id=501230

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One Response to “IET – is it really as bad as it all seems”

  1. Getting at internal disk space with Linux distro Openfiler — Server Virtualization Blog Says:
    February 29th, 2008 at 6:51 pm

    [...] The truth be told, the good news there is only half-good. IET’s release 0.4.5 addresses those problems. The better news is that this update is rolled into the latest patches for OpenFiler (which has a self-update option, just like any other distro). There’s a nice link in a blog here. The reason it’s only half-good… IET is still not supported, patch or no patch. Still, I’ve been using it in the lab, and it works just fine for me. I’ve done 1, 2, and 10 VMotion moves by manipulating DRS, both manually and automatically, and haven’t hit a snag yet. That said, it isn’t supported. [...]