Where are ROW modes in V8?

digitalis99 · Sun May 17, 2015 12:33 pm

Any news on this front?

Sun May 17, 2015 8:22 pm

LSFS is RoW (Redirect-on-Write) from the very beginning. Enable user snapshots and discard writes you don't want to have (rollback to some known recovery point on demand).

digitalis99 · Sun May 17, 2015 8:25 pm

Ahhem...read back through the thread to see which "ROW" I'm talking about.

Sun May 17, 2015 8:29 pm

Oh, so these are actually "writable snapshots using one basic golden image". That's on the way (we need this functionality for VMware SRA/SRM implementation) but we're not done with it yet

Sorry about that! Good news: as it's SRA/SRM dependent we've raised the priority quite a lot

digitalis99 · Sun May 17, 2015 8:32 pm

That is good news. The "ROW with discard" mode from V6 is EXTREMELY useful in Internet cafe, kiosk, and cluster computing scenarios.

Sun May 17, 2015 10:45 pm

Understand #IC and #K but why "cluster computing scenarios" is here?

digitalis99 wrote:That is good news. The "ROW with discard" mode from V6 is EXTREMELY useful in Internet cafe, kiosk, and cluster computing scenarios.

digitalis99 · Mon May 18, 2015 12:01 am

anton (staff) wrote:Understand #IC and #K but why "cluster computing scenarios" is here?

digitalis99 wrote:That is good news. The "ROW with discard" mode from V6 is EXTREMELY useful in Internet cafe, kiosk, and cluster computing scenarios.

It's a heck of a lot easier to deploy compute nodes with identical software configurations if all of them boot directly from a common image. I think there are more large data processing scenarios that can use this method of operation than you may realize.

Wed May 20, 2015 4:40 pm

Hello everyone!

Please let me know if there is something which i could assist you with, thank you.

digitalis99 · Wed Jul 22, 2015 8:53 pm

Just checking in again to see if there's been any progress on this.

Fri Jul 24, 2015 2:09 pm

Hello!

Unfortunately there is no update on thins yet. I will certainly request an update from our R&D guys and update this topic as soon as I get any news.

digitalis99 · Tue Jul 28, 2015 12:24 am

Just in case you needed more incentive or another explanation of ROW use case scenarios, check these guys out:

http://jentu-networks.com/

They built their entire product on basically that one function.

Mon Aug 03, 2015 10:51 am

Thank you for the information

rhemzeronine · Mon Aug 15, 2016 2:44 am

Sorry for necroing.

I am just wondering if there is an update regarding this feature request.

Im currently stucked with v6 and i wish v8 will support this feature.

Thanks and more power

Thu Sep 08, 2016 10:39 pm

Hello everyone!

Unfortunately, we do not have an update here yet. We will update community as soon as possible.

Thank you!

digitalis99 · Tue Apr 25, 2017 1:09 am

I'm digging this up...again...to see if anyone at Starwind is actually trying to implement this. I've been told "soon" for literally years now, yet I'm not seeing it. If you're not going to add it, that's fine, but at least have the decency to state that.