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by bacterialbag
Sat Jan 24, 2015 1:48 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)
Replies: 25
Views: 11775

Re: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)

So, hows it going with the in memory stuff? Hope to see beta soon. We're busy with the other things and shifting and adjusting priorities the way we decide :) In-memory thing did not turn into public beta state yet. Sorry about that... We'll have big version update in mid-January (mostly LSFS and so...
by bacterialbag
Thu Jan 01, 2015 10:25 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)
Replies: 25
Views: 11775

Re: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)

We'll have big version update in mid-January (mostly LSFS and some other things) and after that I'll be able to tell accurately. Okay so what about beta? You said give us a few weeks a few weeks ago, but if I understand you correctly now, it will take you guys longer? I thought the update that was ...
by bacterialbag
Tue Dec 30, 2014 7:01 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)
Replies: 25
Views: 11775

Re: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)

StarWind In-Memory scenario is not released to public yet. I want user experience to beat laptop with ssd performance, that is why I run on SSD and hope your solution can get me the same in-ram performance as Atlantis. (those vm's using atlantis are crazy fast, I want to achieve the same using star...
by bacterialbag
Tue Dec 16, 2014 12:26 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)
Replies: 25
Views: 11775

Re: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)

I want user experience to beat laptop with ssd performance, that is why I run on SSD and hope your solution can get me the same in-ram performance as Atlantis. (those vm's using atlantis are crazy fast, I want to achieve the same using starwind!) Hope you would have some advice for me on how to best...
by bacterialbag
Sat Dec 13, 2014 11:51 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)
Replies: 25
Views: 11775

Re: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)

We license served capacity. So dedupe would decrease space on the underlying disk and you'll still pay for 1TB. The 1tb license HA is BEFORE dedupe right? I have some more questions regarding the HA ram setup for VM's; I have a 3-node setup, is there anyway to get HA ramdisk, without using the size...
by bacterialbag
Fri Nov 28, 2014 11:37 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: iSER support?
Replies: 10
Views: 41514

Re: iSER support?

Could you clarify this for me? I dont understand a word what you're saying. Im using Mellanox Connectx3-Pro's myself, and was wondering if I could use any of the offloading/RDMA/Infiniband capabilities with starwind? Or will my cards only be useable with IPoIB and all the extras go to waste? Please ...
by bacterialbag
Fri Nov 28, 2014 11:36 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: iSER support?
Replies: 10
Views: 41514

Re: iSER support?

Could you clarify this for me? I dont understand a word what you're saying. Im using Mellanox Connectx3-Pro's myself, and was wondering if I could use any of the offloading/RDMA/Infiniband capabilities with starwind? Or will my cards only be useable with IPoIB and all the extras go to waste? Please ...
by bacterialbag
Fri Nov 28, 2014 11:09 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)
Replies: 25
Views: 11775

Re: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)

We license served capacity. So dedupe would decrease space on the underlying disk and you'll still pay for 1TB. The 1tb license HA is BEFORE dedupe right? I do not quite understand you here, When i have a three way cluster, each with 800gb ssd, and 200gb ram, would I pay for 1TB ha 3way license, or...
by bacterialbag
Tue Nov 25, 2014 10:04 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)
Replies: 25
Views: 11775

Re: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)

The 1tb license HA is BEFORE dedupe right? We charge for licensed HA capacity. We don't care about number of replicas (2 or 3) and what you use as a back-end storage (RAM or flash or spindle). With the initial release In-Memory Storage is *NOT* going to be a Premium offering so basic price would inc...
by bacterialbag
Sun Nov 23, 2014 7:48 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)
Replies: 25
Views: 11775

Re: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)

So how is it going to be licensed? (this is a simple question even an engineer should know? ) Will i have to buy 3x 1TB license so i have all my servers licensed for 1tb, and then i can only offer 1tb of total HA storage? Please help me on this topic... By the way, I got about 400gb ram per node... ...
by bacterialbag
Sat Nov 22, 2014 9:12 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)
Replies: 25
Views: 11775

Re: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)

I am targeting Hyper-V I want to be able to run a lot of VM's with in-ram performance, without needing to use loads of ram for the whole process. Do you happen to know how Atlantis does this? I thought they just used a few deduped in-ram golden images that can serve up a big amount of VM's ? Or is t...
by bacterialbag
Sat Nov 22, 2014 3:26 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)
Replies: 25
Views: 11775

Re: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)

Will I be able to make Ram HA? And serve x amount of pooled VM's without having to have the same amount of gold images taking up ram? so multiple vm's with one in-ram gold image, like atltis? can i make the whole thing HA/auto restart? if that would be possible i definately will be buying soon!!! Pr...
by bacterialbag
Fri Nov 21, 2014 1:48 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)
Replies: 25
Views: 11775

Re: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)

Bad news: In the current production version of V8 you cannot do in-memory storage. Good news: After we'll stabilize some features and roll out update for V8 (next few weeks) we'll seriously push in-memory storage scenario (data pinpointed to deduplicated cache, cache pre-heating etc) so very soon y...
by bacterialbag
Wed Nov 19, 2014 1:02 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)
Replies: 25
Views: 11775

Re: in-memory HA storage (diskless vdi)

Making long story short the idea behind the whole thing is pretty much the same: "el cheapo" backend storage (SATA) + uber-fast front storage (RAM). Atlantis (it's not the first or second time we get a possible COI with these guys, they do a great job and I respect their technology a lot)...