Previous Changes

Section(s) Content Changes Date
General

Updated

This document has been reviewed for SANsymphony 10.0 PSP 11.

No additional settings or configurations are required.

January 2021
The Citrix Hypervisor Host’s settings Added

Both 7.x and 6.5 Multipath Configuration:

Use the rr_min_io_rq setting (instead of rr_min_io) for kernels newer than 2.6.30

October 2019
General Updated

This document has been reviewed for SANsymphony 10.0 PSP 9.

No additional settings or configurations are required.

The Citrix Hypervisor Host’s settings Updated

Both 7.x and 6.5 Multipath Configuration:

Fixed the inconsistent explanation for path_selector and path_checker settings within the notes section.

The DataCore Server’s settings – Port Roles Updated July 2019
General Removed
  • All information regarding SANsymphony-V 9.x as this version is end of life (EOL).
  • Citrix XenServer 6.1 and 6.2
    All information referring to Citrix XenServer 6.1 and 6.2 as these were the only versions that were qualified with SANsymphony 9.x. This includes also removing some 6.1/6.2 ‘Known Issue’ and multipath.conf entries. These versions of Citrix XenServer are considered ‘Not Supported’ on any version of SANsymphony 10.x.
Citrix Hypervisor Compatibility Lists Added

Citrix Hypervisor 8.x added to compatibility list. Currently, this version is considered ‘Not Supported’ for SANsymphony 9.0 PSP 4 Update 4 and ‘Not Qualified’ for all versions of SANsymphony 10.x.

June 2019
Citrix Hypervisor Compatibility Lists Updated

Versions of XenServer that were marked as ‘Not Qualified’ but are now considered ‘End of Life’ by Citrix have been marked as ‘Not Supported’. Please see page 3 for the difference between ‘Not Qualified’ and ‘Not Supported’.

General Updated

This document has been reviewed for SANsymphony 10.0 PSP 8.

No additional settings or configurations are required.

October 2018
XenServer compatibility list Updated

SANsymphony is now supported for all 7.x Citrix versions.

May 2018
General Updated

This document has been reviewed for SANsymphony 10.0 PSP 7.

No additional settings or configurations are required.

February 2018
Appendix B – Configuring Disk Pools Removed

The information here has been removed as it is now superseded by the information in:

The DataCore Server- Best Practice Guidelines What was previously 'Appendix C' has now been moved to 'Appendix B'.

XenServer compatibility list

Updated

XenServer 7.2 is now Qualified with SANsymphony-V 10.x with or without ALUA.

November 2017