Ok, bit of a break through on this one. There does seem to be an issue with ESXi 5.0 (no updates, just plain old 5.0). in starwind there is nothing logged, the last thing logged was the ESSX5.0 host connecting to the starwind system, then nothing. But it nukes itself after a few hours, anything invo...

So on my test platform, I had a few VM's running nicely in Starwind v5, I figured it was time to try out V8 All installed nicely, the old images came online, lovely and simple, added a bit of L1 cache and things were looking good. I left it overnight, all the VM's had hung, and anything involving th...

there are 4 hypervisors, I'll need to look into swapping the switch out or enabling jumbo's across all devices (they are currently disabled)

The disks are all thick / lazy drives. the controller doesn't give its temperature, the disks are all at 27C and are all showing as healthy, no media / smart errors. I've had a look through the logs, no reads / writes being reported as delayed, 1 thing I have noticed is that the ports on the switch ...

I know posting of logfiles is frowned upon, but here is a tiny section: 9/17 23:10:49.973 9a0 Ssc: *** SscScsi_InquiryHandler: INQUIRY VPD page 0xb0 is not supported! 9/17 23:10:49.989 9a8 Ssc: *** SscScsi_InquiryHandler: INQUIRY VPD page 0xb0 is not supported! 9/17 23:10:57.602 9a8 IMG: *** ImageFi...

Hi. We have an interesting problem, the only downside is that users are noticing it and complaining. We have 1 starwind node running version 6, its a Windows 2008 R2 machine: 32GB Mem, AMD FX 6200 (3.8Ghz) ona Gigabyte Board, disks are handled by an LSI Megaraid SAS 9260-16i, with all 16 channels po...