Hi dgl72,
I believe you can ask Serghio directly about the script. Or modify existing scripts according to your needs

Hey Pete,
Did you check the connection speed with the help of, for example, iperf?

Hi!
I found an interesting review here:
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I guess you need to read this
Maybe I am mistaken but as I know Mellanox does not support iSER on Windows Server 2019 yet.

Edit: anton (staff) removed dead link.

Great, I will try the similar scenario.
But I have one guess. What will happen if one of the physical drives fail?

Wow, you did a great job. So performance of the drives via RDM/Storage Spaces was fine and no issues. IO and IOPS seemed aligned with the speed of the drives, will no roll out a full cache + storage array and see how that will perform. Can you give more details? How did you make the configuration of...

I would not agree with

1] Deduplication is not ideal for virtualization - you should avoid it when deploying virtual machines

Actually, it can help to save space.
But in general, you gave good explanation

Hi!
Had no hands-on experience with exactly the same hardware, but I bet the guys from StarWind would advise following their recommendations when setting up all this stuff.

Hi crawl, I read your post and have some suggestions about it. In case if you use StarWind flat image disk with L2 cache, it will improve reads, because of cache in Write-Through mode by default. But for RAID 10 you need at least 4 disks, that is why in your configuration I think it will be RAID 1 f...

Well,THAT was interesting... It looks to me that, in a (Server 2016) two-host cluster, if I stop the StarWind VSAN service on one host, it automatically stops that service in the other host as well! Am i imagining things? Kind of makes me wonder how we are supposed to proceed, if we want to keep th...

Hello, The best options are depending on your Production needs. As far as I know, Starwind doesn't care about the number of VM's inside. I hope links below will help you. https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/1b13945c-b2ca-4336-b375-c25ed1473b8b/hyperv-cluster-best-practice...

Dedup helps, but if you have a lot of similar data.
As I can see, LSFS technical description is the same for new version https://knowledgebase.starwindsoftware. ... scription/

As far as I know, flat devices doesn`t have a dedup.

Try to delete LSFS device(not the physical one) and create new device based on existing files.

Could you double check your NIC`s?

Just try to ping it from hyper-visor to the SAN.

I think it depends on your storage(HDD`s)

If you have enough performance on your drives, I would choose flat files.

Anyway, choosing HDD`s for your production, you should look into your possible options.

I think that it is up to each system. You can try BitLocker and Starwind l1 cache and tell all of us the results.
As far as I know, Starwind recommends 1GB l1 cache per 1TB storage.