A New SPSPX File Generated every 12mins

Guy Liu · Wed Feb 25, 2015 1:25 pm

Hello,

I am new to StarWind Virtual SAN so I am setting up a test environment to evaluate the product.

I have two PCs, each running Windows Server 2012 R2 Evaluations, with StarWind Virtual SAN v8 Free (downloaded a couple of weeks ago) installed and licensed for two node HA cluster.

I have two NICs on each PC, one for sync and one for heart beat.

I have created a single 1GB Synchronous disk thinly provisioned, and attached it to a couple of other PCs, running Hyper-V Server 2012 R2. I can see in the folder there's a .spsp file created that's about 12MB.

This is as far as I've got, and I've not put any data on the disk. However I noticed that there's a new .spspx file that's 516MB being created very 12 mins in the folder. What's the cause of this? The folder is now taking over 100GB given that I haven't put anything on it. This doesn't seem right to me. Can anyone shed any light on it?

Thu Feb 26, 2015 11:40 pm

Hi,
This is not the expected behavior for the device.
Just to double check, what is the build number you're running?
Also, please let me know if you have enabled in-line deduplication for the device?

BTW: I would recommend removing the device and recreating it using the latest version available on our website as of today.
Please let us know if the issue persists after the steps above.

Guy Liu · Fri Feb 27, 2015 9:32 am

I am currently running Build 7509. Will download the new release and try it.

Guy Liu · Fri Feb 27, 2015 4:27 pm

I am not using the deduplication option.

The problem has not gone away in build 7774.

Tue Mar 03, 2015 5:13 pm

Thank you for the feedback!
Please let us know if there is anything else that we may assist you with

Guy Liu · Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:43 am

Yes, please help. The problem has NOT gone away!

Fri Mar 06, 2015 3:52 pm

May I ask you what are hte
1. Ammount of data stored on the LSFS device
2. Total disk space that LSFS currently takes?

Rich now it should take not more then 3times more from the amount of data.

Guy Liu · Fri Mar 06, 2015 4:05 pm

Hi,

I had to delete the device as it was filling up the drive. I think the amount of data was no more than 10GB (could have been 0 in fact). It was taking up 300+ GB by the time I deleted it.

Regards

Guy

Tue Mar 10, 2015 5:54 pm

That is really weird and unexpected.

Would you be so kind to drop quick email to support@ and one of our engineers will gladly jump on the remote session with you to get to the botom of the issue. Please don`t forget to out the link to this conversation to your email. Also I would highly appreciate if you could provide me with next information:
· StarWind service logs at the time of the issue from all problematic SAN boxes
· Windows Application and System logs (in *.csv format) on the time of the issue from all problematic SAN boxes
· Detailed network diagram of SAN system (how everythign is connected, are there any clusters, etc). This part is the most important to be honest.
· Description of the actions that were performed before/at the time of the issue
· Approximate time frames when the issue happened

I`d appreciate if you`ll separate the logs from different servers into the different folders

Thanks

clickmaster · Thu Nov 12, 2015 7:09 pm

Same problem here. Anything new?
I have the latest version installed.

darklight · Fri Nov 13, 2015 4:38 pm

Hi Clickmaster,

I had the same problem a while (and builds) ago. Creating a new LSFS device and migrating data to it resolved the issue for me.

Mon Nov 23, 2015 10:29 am

Hi guys,

LSFS-growth issue was fixed in the latest version (Build 8730) however, LSFS devices created in previous versions might still be improper. If this is your case, please do not hesitate to recreate such devices from scratch using the newest StarWind Virtual SAN version.

fbifido · Sat Jan 16, 2016 10:33 am

Tarass (Staff) wrote:Hi guys,

LSFS-growth issue was fixed in the latest version (Build 8730) however, LSFS devices created in previous versions might still be improper. If this is your case, please do not hesitate to recreate such devices from scratch using the newest StarWind Virtual SAN version.

This is what I was looking for.

Please update you release notes, to include this very important fix.
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/release-notes-build

Wed Jan 20, 2016 1:37 pm

Thank you, fbifido, we will do.
Since there are still some minor issues (like older devices for example) we will update our release notes once it's completely gone.