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      cg @olivierlambert last edited by

      @olivierlambert said in SMAPIv3 - Feedback & Bug reports:

      raw means any "whole" block device, meaning no snapshot, clone, no shared SR case, etc. Doesn't matter what's underneath. I would say the first use case is passing a whole drive to a VM (eg FreeNAS).

      But yeah, you would be able to pass a LUN if you like 🙂

      Sounds a bit like VVOLs from VMware. Not sure how exactly they work but LUNs exclusively for VMs could be an easy thing, regarding TRIM/DISCARD etc.

      It just still needs mechanics for XAPI etc. to grab/backup them. Also Snapshots could be done with that, just a different logic.

      But first it's probably a target for people needing pure performance.

      @olivierlambert said in SMAPIv3 - Feedback & Bug reports:

      Nope. I don't know if it's even planned by Citrix.

      Noone noes if Citrix has plans at all - not even paying customers. Their communication is kind of a nightmare.

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      • olivierlambert
        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼 last edited by

        Eager to see CH 8.1 and what they did to improve their driver to support storage live migration 🙂

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          cg @olivierlambert last edited by

          @olivierlambert said in SMAPIv3 - Feedback & Bug reports:

          Eager to see CH 8.1 and what they did to improve their driver to support storage live migration 🙂

          Any idea about the release date? I mean their "one release a quater" only worked for very short and they failed again with 8.1, which should have been released until 1st of October.

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          • olivierlambert
            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼 last edited by

            I think we can reasonably imagine for the end of the year or so 🙂

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              cg last edited by

              Then 8.1 should be the new LTSR. I'd appreciate that. Will XCP-ng follow that concept?

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              • olivierlambert
                olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼 last edited by

                Why do you think it will be the next LTSR?

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                  cg last edited by

                  IIRC they said this year should bring another LTSR - as the old one becomes quite old now. The last chance would be a release in Q4 - that would also fit for 7.1 LTSR -> 8.1 LTSR (basically making 8.0 evolutions mature/tested)

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                    olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼 last edited by

                    Do you remember where you read this?

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                      AllooTikeeChaat @olivierlambert last edited by

                      @olivierlambert

                      Citrix, have recently announced via blog post that the next reported XenApp/XenDesktop LTSR release is due end Q4 2019 so its possible CH8.1 might show up at the same time.

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                      • olivierlambert
                        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼 last edited by

                        Damn I probably missed that post, can you put the URL here please?

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                          cg last edited by

                          They removed the Hypervisor tag from their blog, so finding that posts isn't easy anmore and CH/XS posts get lost in stuff I don't care about.

                          Looks a bit like they only want to keep it because VMware Horizon becomes more attractive, if Citrix doesn't bring it's own HV for XenApp/XenDesktop for free.

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                            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼 last edited by

                            Citrix want to keep their HV/platform because they don't want to rely only on competitors to run XenApp/XenDesktop. It's just not a "product" but a technical part of their solution.

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                              olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼 last edited by

                              I can't find anything on this blog 😕

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                                AllooTikeeChaat @olivierlambert last edited by

                                @olivierlambert

                                Its all about XA/XD I'm afraid but it does state year end 2019 for the next LTSR.

                                https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2019/09/19/whats-new-with-citrix-virtual-apps-and-desktops-september-2019/

                                "Long-Term Service Release News

                                For those of you on 7.15 LTSR — one of our most popular releases — we have some exciting news about our next LTSR availability. We’re planning our next LTSR for year-end."

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                                  cg last edited by

                                  Somewhere they said they want to algin numbers and XA/XD LTRS only makes sense on a fitting CH LTSR.

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                                    olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼 last edited by

                                    Hmm okay so it's not written directly. We'll see soon enough 🙂

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                                      cocoon XCP-ng Center Team 🏚️ last edited by

                                      Hi, is the "raw-device-plugin" branch already working?
                                      https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp-ng-xapi-storage/tree/feat/raw-device-plugin

                                      I just upgraded to 8.0 and wanted to try it now and found out, that the latest released package is v1.0.2 and is missing the raw-device.

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                                        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼 last edited by

                                        @ronan-a is still working on it, and he's in the middle of a load of tests/benchs.

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                                          cocoon XCP-ng Center Team 🏚️ last edited by

                                          OK thanks, so I better should wait a bit before I try anything?

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                                            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼 last edited by

                                            Exactly.

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