Questions about active/active alua and about single file restore with smvi

[galchen]

Hi,

I have an opportunity for VMware with FCP and I would appreciate your help with answering these questions:

1. I understand that the Vspere Alua is round robin active/active. Does it know not to use the proxy paths (the ports of the other head via interconnect)?

2. I understand there is a road map for Single file restore with SMVI. I understand that with FCP/ISCSI it is going to be single VMDK restore, not a single file from the VMDK. is it correct? Can anyone tell what is the timetable for that?

Thank you,

Erez.

[lockyer]

Hi Erez,

To answer your second question, SMVI will perform single file restores in both FCP / iSCSI and NFS environments as well as individual VMDKs. There is no difference in functionality when it comes to supported protocols. SMVI 2.0 is slated for release this fall.

John

[amiller_1]

Some further details about SMVI 2.0 posted by Lisa Haut-Mikkelson here.....

http://communities.netapp.com/message/12624#12624

[forgette]

Hi Erez,

     The answer to your first question is yes.  ALUA stands for Asymmetric Logical Unit Access.  Please take a look at Vaughn Stewart's blog post "vSphere Introduces the Plug-n-Play SAN" for more information.

Hope this helps,

-Eric