How soon do you anticipate this? I am anxiously awaiting a ssd cache system

How would you recommend implementing the SSD's? As a RAID 0, 10, or 1? I have 4 drives total I am planning on using.

I didn't know if there was any advantage to doing that, i figured 1 filesystem as opposed to two would be better

I won't worry about it then anymore.

Just wanted to update regarding the issue above a bit more, I created a fixed virtual disk in storage spaces, but did not create a volume on it (of course). Served it up as a disk bridge in starwind, and it stopped the startwind service like mentioned above within a few hours. Brought my whole clust...

Also, in reference to the issue above, it might be nice to try and add a field that populates information about the virtual disk or something. Looking at those unique identifiers for all of those devices in Device Manager, I cannot find out from the information provided to try and match anything fro...

I am having console issues. Console locks up, and restarting the StarWind service does not fix the issue. Restarting the File Server Resource Manager sevice did fix the issue. Just so you guys know! EDIT: Also want to add that I was using Server 2012 RTM along with Storage spaces. I had created a 1 ...

as we discussed last month here: http://www.starwindsoftware.com/forums/beta-f17/starwind-beta-t2753-45.html (midway through the page) I cannot use my work email. Since we are a large Netapp and EMC partner, I cannot use my work email. I am an IT professional, and I am interested in using these prod...

I attempted to download the trial version of it, and it appears my account is locked out again. I did ask sales to unlock my account so i can further test products.

I will try a 2 node setup until a new beta is released.

Sounds good. I think I will try running a 3 node setup. I may need a license for Native SAN if it is different from the Starwind iscsi 6 server. For my lab, i am going to try and run 2 disks and raid0 (it's a lab) and I will be backing up the VM's as well. How well does Intel SRT on Z68 chipset work...

StarWind does feed shared storage to the whole cluster and it does provide resilient iSCSI services to guest VM cluster thing (required). That is what I am wondering about. I am trying to understand what this product does when things go south. When i have 2 hyper-v hosts, both configured with DAS a...

What i mean is, let's say i have 3 hyper-v hosts, all with das storage only. Using native san for hyper-v, if one of the disk arrays fail on one of the hosts, will the guest vm's that were running on that node with the failed storage continue to run using storage from another hyper-v host, or will t...

also, if the local disk array fails, with the vm's on that node continue to run vm's via iscsi on another node or not? Reading the documentation i am still trying to wrap my head around how it works

So now that Server 2012 RTM is out, what is the word for this? I am wondering if I can do this between 2 or 3 2012 rtm hosts, each with the following: -Intel i5 2500k -32gb mem each -6 intel 1gbe ports teamed running trunk links with lacp port channel, and virtual adapters for each vlan as well as Q...

I appreciate that. Also, is there anything at this time you would like me or us to test specifically? HA in 2 and 3 node modes under as high load as possible and as many scenarios as you can invent to break it. :) Are there any plans to be able to use SSD for some additional caching like a ZIL or A...

OK, we'll check the MPIO behavior in our test lab. Thank you. As for the TCP settings there is no definite answer. In most cases yes you should apply them, but sometimes JumboFrames can hurt performance. Run several performance tests without and with the applied settings to make a decision. I appre...

In the StarWind product, I have to connect each mpio connection manually, and in the MS initiator I also just that to pick the target ip address, if i choose anything else, it will only allow for one of my vlans, vlan 11. The experience was not horrible, i just expected the MPIO to be set up by itse...