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READYDATA 5200 / NEXENTA and NO VAAI Support???
Can Anybody Explain to me how it can be that the ReadyDATA 5200 which is based on Nexenta does not support VAAI??
Its based on NExenta and that supports VAAI from ESXi 5 and later from Release 3.1.x.x which is already a Year Old....
Its based on NExenta and that supports VAAI from ESXi 5 and later from Release 3.1.x.x which is already a Year Old....
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- You might want to repost this in the ReadyDATA forum - which is here: http://forum1.netgear.com/forumdisplay.php?f=129
- Cannot post there... somehome.. as I do not have a registered ReadyDATA 5200
- Counter-intuitive but you can register for the 'general consumer product forum' without ownership verification; just do not check the Enterprise Product Forum Access checkbox. Of course you do want that so if you have ANY Netgear product lying around registering it should be sufficient for access to the Enterprise forum. I tested this by registering a recently purchased GS108T 8 port switch and then verifying my profile on the forum using the links provided in the FAQ. Note there is a bad link in there, if directed to "https://my.netgear-support.com/myNETGEAR/login.asp" instead go to https://my.netgear.com/myNETGEAR/login.asp.
- Nevermind. Just send email to my Internal Netgear Contact about the VAAI thing
- ReadyDATA (as of 1.2.0 firmware) is using the NexentaStor 3.1.0 release from July 2011, a wee bit out of date yes.
While they use that kernel, they replaced the userland. They must not implement the same feature calls to COMSTAR etc for iSCSI target use. - so with 1.20 VAAI support is there?
- No idea, you can try updating to it, there is a link on their FTP in that thread. They haven't officially released it yet though.
- The Case is... I do not have a ReadyData Unit.. ;-) but QNAP and Synology have already VAAI support and good too...
- I wouldn't be that surprised. I manage 3240/3250 NetApp filers (costing around $250K with disk shelves) that really don't work with VAAI via NFS... even with NetApp's plugin loaded on our ESXi 5.0.2 hosts.
From my tests with VAAI enabled/disabled via iSCSI or FCP... it didn't make much difference. There are certainly videos out there showing drastic host CPU and copy time reduction, though.
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