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It looks like DataCore has followed through on their promises to release a storage Link adapter for XenServer. An official Citrix release notification can be read Here.

So what exactly is StorageLink? Storage Link is a set of technologies that “allows the user to perform storage management tasks directly out of the Citrix StorageLink user interface. It unifies management of virtual machines and DataCore virtual storage into one single console, whether you’re using XenServer or Hyper-V. It offers both FC SAN and iSCSI support.”.

This is a long winded way of Citrix enabling advanced storage manipulation inside of it’s console.  This goes along with the Xen philosophy of relying on vendors to write advanced features instead of writing them into their product. This has been touted by Citrix for a while as a way of optimizing their code for Hypervisor performance while creating a conduit for advanced features to be taken advantage of by ISV’s.

We have yet to implement this feature for any customers but may be compelled to do so soon.  Feedback to follow.

Anyone out there doing this yet?

Working on a project for a customer. Doing an exchange 2003 to 2007 migration and when you open up the exchange 2007 management console you get a bunch of errors that look pretty ominous. They are validation errors that state the path cannot be the root directory!

After looking into it a little deeper it turns out the customers exchange 2003 storage groups, transaction logs, and databases were stored on different drives but were in the root path of those drives.  Apparently Exchange 2007 is not to keen on that.

The following is what it looked like from the Exchange 2003 console.

I guess the moral of the story is I could move the transaction logs, databases, system paths on the 2003 ide to please the 2007 Mgt console….Or I could just ignore ignore it until the 2003 server is retired.  Since all messaging is flowing properly, I choose the latter…

Scott

I came across this great utility on another website that I know I will be adding to my tool set, and I am sure other might find useful.

Richard Garthshagen has it on his site.

This tool will give you all you need to know about the servers in your cluster just by passing it the VC info.

Thanks Richard for an awesome tool!

Scott