yaroslav (staff) wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 08, 2025 10:29 am

Yes, that's right.

Thx very much.

yaroslav (staff) wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 08, 2025 10:10 am

Replication links work in round-robin and are balanced by VSAN.

So you are saying that the vsan process, in presence of multiple replication links, would use ALL of them in a round robin fashion effectively doing load balancing.

Have i understood correctly ?

Thx

For iscsi i'm agree: there is multipath for failover and load balancing.
I'm just asking if for replication links the native load balancing done by a lacp works.

Thx

Thx for your answer.

So just using an lacp teaming and passing it as virtual interface to cvm controllers as replication link just not "transparently" load balancing the traffic on the two links ?

I'm sure this question was already made in the past over and over again but I cannot search in the forum so sadly i need to re-done it. Speaking about replication links in vsan: Does two nics dedicated to replication effectly double the replication bandwith ? or it is used only for redundancy ? eg: ...

Hi

Now that proxmox 9 is out, Are the integration services compatible with it ?

Good, it's just what i'm expecting to hear: a native plugin for starwind vsan. Just for clarification: from the documentation seems that the plugin was a "universal" solution, eg from the description on thw web site: "StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services turns on essential s...

Thx for your explanation.

Does the plugin works only with starwind vsan or with every san solution ?.
Regarding starwind vsan: do you have something native for your product that support thin provisioning AND snapshot on proxmox ?

thx again

Hi Thx again Honestly don't understand how you could use a vmdk format on an lvm. VMDK is supposed to be a file, where lvm is supposed to be a "disk" format, which is used by hypervisor as container for virtual disk (that is, if vm1 have 2 disk, it's translated in lvm to be 2 lv), so you c...

Thx for your answer

But still not clear.
The vmdk format cannot be used on shared storage on proxmox, only ONLY lvm.
I've already read the docs but as outlined in my previous post it does not explain how to plugin works.

Thx

As per topic: In the tech description i've read that the integrations services allow to have thin provisioning and snapshot on standard san. What i've not understood is how the product achieve this without having any custom plugin for various san vendor support. Maybe would be better to add some det...

UPDATE: it's a xenserver bug which invoke the uncorrect parameters when trying to detect scsi_id of the device.
I've managed to solve the problem to modify the pertinent code.

Thx for help.

Hi Michael The scenario you described works fine. But now let's imagine another one , the most catastrophic one: 1) BOTH nodes goes down 2) i restart the two nodes, resulting in having the mirrored sr desynced on the two nodes. 3) i force the vdisk on node1 as "mark as synched" 4) now seco...

Hi Michael Maybe i'm not explain correctly. Problems comes when , for example, one of the two nodes is down. The xenserver multipath correctly handle the path's failover, eg on the survived xenserver node the running vms are not impacted. When I restart the problematic nodes (which is a xenserver no...

As a side note: I've succeeded creating the LUN via starwind provided script: same story.