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by altmannj
Sun Nov 30, 2025 6:46 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: Caching with CVM
Replies: 7
Views: 34970

Re: Caching with CVM

Is it possible to use OpenCAS with the controller virtual machine? If i create a caching device and a backing device the CVM recognizes the physical disks as "cas1-1 (cache)" and "cas1-1 (core)" for both the caching and backing devices. It's then listed as type "OpenCAS"...
by altmannj
Sat Nov 29, 2025 4:14 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: Caching with CVM
Replies: 7
Views: 34970

Re: Caching with CVM

Thank you for the information! This is for a home lab. I have two higher performing SSD's that are write-intensive drives with storage SSD's that are read-intensive hence the desire for utilizing the write-intensive drives for cache. I had run the OpenCAS setup within Proxmox itself and presented th...
by altmannj
Fri Nov 28, 2025 5:29 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: Caching with CVM
Replies: 7
Views: 34970

Caching with CVM

Hello, Is it possible to configure a caching solution, whether native to the CVM VSAN appliance or via back-end with direct PCI access? I have bcache configured in Proxmox and have that volume presented to CVM as a disk, however, this is virtualized and adds a small I/O hit due to non native drive a...