@FATeknollogee said in XenServer 7.0: monitor hard drive failure:

Since the Dell fanboi's hijacked this thread (jk 😃 ) I'm going to start another thread.
Actually have some good info for those of us non-Dell users.
I use SuperMIcro.

Is there anything about Dell on here? Dell was mentioned, but nothing Dell specific was said. All of the info applies to SuperMicro as well. IPMI is used instead of iDRAC. And the PERC software and the LSI MegaRAID software is the same. Only difference is branding.

On HyperV, the use of SMB3 is pretty nascent and very vendors provide a good platform for it. So there tends to be a trend to remain with iSCSI for HyperV because of this. Not because SMB3 isn't the better option at a protocol level but because it is so new it remains mostly impractical.