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by clickmaster
Fri Jun 10, 2016 7:20 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: Again some questions about LSFS devices
Replies: 7
Views: 5569

Again some questions about LSFS devices

Hi there, we had this LSFS bug last year which filled our disks with .spspx files constantly. A short time after that a new build with a fix came out. So this is no issue anymore. We use a roundabout 13 Terabyte Near Line SAS RAID5 Volume for a LSFS LUN without deduplication and StarWind VTL on top ...
by clickmaster
Fri Apr 08, 2016 8:43 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: Recommended RAID controller stripe/strip size
Replies: 2
Views: 3027

Recommended RAID controller stripe/strip size

Hello guys, I have a new test environment and have a question regarding the stripe or strip size of the volume I want to create for Virtual SAN devices. As long as I know the stripe size of a RAID volume is the block size of that "virtual RAID disk". But in the MegaRAID Software of my LSI/...
by clickmaster
Tue Nov 17, 2015 3:16 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: Deduplication ratio explanation
Replies: 3
Views: 2646

Re: Deduplication ratio explanation

Hello Tarass,

1) There are no snapshots.
2) The volume grows without any new files.

At the moment Virtual SAN adds up to four 132 MB SPSPx files per hour and fills up the volume.
by clickmaster
Mon Nov 16, 2015 10:57 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: Mpps switch forwarding performance for iSCSI
Replies: 5
Views: 3523

Re: Mpps switch forwarding performance for iSCSI

Thank you for the information so far.

My problem is that I don´t know if a iSCSI switch with 480 Mpps will bottleneck Virtual SAN.
Is 480 Mpps a good package throughput compared to a usual switch?
by clickmaster
Fri Nov 13, 2015 9:48 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: Mpps switch forwarding performance for iSCSI
Replies: 5
Views: 3523

Mpps switch forwarding performance for iSCSI

Hi there, is there any recommendation for the right switch forwarding performance (Mpps) depending iSCSI? We need two 24-port switches with 12 x 10GBit SFP+ and 4 uplinks with 10 GBit SFP+ each. The switches will be used for Virtual SAN and Hyper-V iSCSI only. The switches we have in mind have a for...
by clickmaster
Thu Nov 12, 2015 7:09 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: A New SPSPX File Generated every 12mins
Replies: 14
Views: 8076

Re: A New SPSPX File Generated every 12mins

Same problem here. Anything new?
I have the latest version installed.
by clickmaster
Thu Nov 12, 2015 6:32 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: Deduplication ratio explanation
Replies: 3
Views: 2646

Deduplication ratio explanation

Hi there, could somebody please explain me how deduplication in Virtual SAN works? I have a 100 GB CSV in a Hyper-V cluster. The volume has 10 GB free space left. The Virtual SAN device has 73,6 GB with files on the StarWind volume. The deduplication ratio is 2.27. I thought that 2.27 means that Vir...
by clickmaster
Thu Nov 12, 2015 6:00 pm
Forum: Public Beta
Topic: Extend/shrink deduplicated disk
Replies: 9
Views: 35221

Re: Extend/shrink deduplicated disk

Is this a feature now? I get an error when I try to extend a LSFS thin-provisioned HA device with deduplication.
by clickmaster
Mon Nov 09, 2015 5:17 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: Unable to extend size of LSFS storage
Replies: 6
Views: 4535

Re: Unable to extend size of LSFS storage

Anything new here? I got the same problem/error and cannot extend a thin-provisioned LSFS device.
Still not able in the current version?

Thanks for help!
by clickmaster
Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:47 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: Some beginners questions
Replies: 2
Views: 2084

Some beginners questions

Hello everyone! :) I´m new with StarWind VirtualSAN and maybe someone could help me with some beginners questions regarding VirtualSAN with Hyper-V in a hyper-converged environment. So I worked with the official how-to Hyper-Converged 2 Nodes Scenario - 2 Nodes with Hyper-V Cluster and did all the c...