adns, I haven't tested mirroring properly (I intend to go straight to HA when SW 5 comes out), but when you set up a mirror target, there is an option to specify how much system RAM to use for cacheing. Basically the mirror target is like a virtual target, starwind then uses starport to talk to the ...

By cluster shared volume do you mean CSV, the new feature of R2 failover clustering? Microsoft only support it for storing the VHDs of Hyper-V VMs - nothing else. I don't think you can use DFS to replicate the contents of CSVs, and in any case, you can't use DFS to replicate VHDs, of running VMs at ...

Officially, that is true. The only way to license it is to buy it from a server OEM with Storage Server with appropriate hardware. That rules it out for me. I have to license everything Microsoft via SPLA. If it's not available on SPLA, then I'm not allowed to use it, although maybe the situation is...

The OP says they tried the MS iSCSI Initiator (to disprove ESX's iSCSI Initiator), not the MS iSCSI Target. Therefore the problem could still be StarWind. I suppose you can't rule out Starwind completely, but the OP did say that MS target was giving similar results (a few posts down): I've done som...

Look, this is just my opinion, based on my limited experience, but I don't think this is a huge priority... Very few organisations *need* the huge address range that ipv6 gives them. 10.x.x.x is good enough for most networks. The main reason why ipv6 gets deployed internally is because some stuff re...

Quick reality check on my production network... starwind_hv_network.gif My set up is very different from yours, and my quick test not very scientific, but anyway... Starwind 4.2 is running on Windows 2008 R2 standard. This is a Hyper-V VM with just one core of a quad core 2.2Ghz Nehalem Xeon and 1GB...

Not really, you've got me stumped. You should be able to do more than 50MB/sec with a ram drive though - the fact that's not up at 100MB/sec suggests there's something wrong, somewhere, that's not to do with the hard drives. HDTune is doing sequential i/o, right? Not that it should make much of a di...

I haven't tried Starwind on top of Windows 2008 R2 yet, but how about mounting the VHD in Windows and then using Starwind to present it as a diskbridge device? Sorry if someone's already explained why that won't work... Alternatively, run Starwind inside a VM and then use diskbridge from there? Neit...

I've got a few suggestions... 1) This is probably not the issue if they are recent nics, but what interface are your Intel NICs running on? It's just your speed is suspiciously close to what a gigabit PCI 33Mhz card would do (as opposed to PCIe). If a gigabit ethernet connection is via a slow interf...

a quick download of 4.2 later... It doesn't seem to be in the release notes. So until Starwind repsond, the only way to establish whether the feature is really back is through experimentation(as I said before, the option was left in the UI and config files, but the setting was supposed to be ignored...

Peekay, I know this is probably not your intention, but you've made me feel really stupid and ignorant, and that's after a whole day of it... 1) Starwind 4.2? When did this arrive? Last time I downloaded, it was at 4.1!! Note to Robert & other starwind people: Please could you add a sticky threa...

PS, Robert - could you post a link to guidelines for running on server core? Can the Starwind UI run on server core (or another machine via RPC), or does the config have to be done with config files only?

Hi Thona, Really interesting about what you say as Infiniband as an Ethernet replacement. I read that the Mellanox chips that Supermicro are doing on their systems equipped with 40Gbit Infiniband could emulate Ethernet, but I haven't seen confirmation of this within Windows - they would have to have...

I considered trying to do this but I could think of a lot of reasons why this would be a bad idea. So I'm waiting for Starwind HA instead. If you are trying to achieve seamless failover, so that if windows/starwind fail for any reason, none of your iSCSI connections fail and are routed to another st...

Hi Bryan, MPIO is mostly on the initiator side. There's no special config on the Starwind side, but if you want MPIO to provide you with redundancy, you want at least 2 NICs on the Starwind server amd 2 NICs on the initiator, and two switches. By default, Starwind listens to every ip for iSCSI traff...