Analysis

posted on 16 June 2008 12:51

On being asked about support of Microsoft's Hyper-V and other server virtualisation products, Sanbolic executive chairman Bill Stevenson sent through this reply:-

"Melio currently can be used with Hyper-V on physical host servers to enable a single shared LUN to store all virtual machine images. This eliminates the need to provision one LUN per virtual machine, which Hyper-V otherwise requires if one wants to use "quick migration" to independently move virtual machines across hosts. Jeff Woolsey of Microsoft describes this in question 5 on this link: http://blog.scottlowe.org/2008/06/10/a-discussion-with-jeff-woolsey."

"We expect to announce support for Hyper-V virtual machines accessing a shared LUN for application data later this year. There are a couple of issues around assuring clock synchronization that we are working through with Microsoft."

"Theoretically, Melio should also work with Xen Server or Virtual Iron virtual machines to provide shared LUN access for application data, however we have not tested it yet. We work closely with Citrix on other products (Melio is a "Citrix Ready" product used to provide high availability storage access for Citrix Provisioning Server), so we will be testing the Xen Server configuration shortly."

Looks good. Thanks to Bill Stevenson for the insight.

^{[Chris Mellor.]}