I tried to connect the device via the loopback session and now I have a disk mounted on one server (and starwind I presume syncs it to the other).

I have trouble running the test using the tool you wanted:

Do you mean adding connections to existing session?

Or else how can I add multiple sessions when I have only one NIC for iSCSI? And that NIC is 25Gbit direct host to host link that does not even register any utilization right now.

It is a physical RAID consisting of 4 Samsung NVME SSDs, each node has 8 disks in a mirror configuration. I tested Storage Spaces extensively, but the performance of the RAID was better.

Each host has two sessions. One to each endpoint:

Hello, - It is installed as exe directly on the hosts. So no appliance VM atp. - The NICs are as mentioned 2x25Gbit each. Directly connected to each other host. One network card is configured as Heartbeat and the other as Sync. Jumbo frames are enabled and I did network test and reached the 25Gbits....

Hello, I was told to post this here on forum. I tried to deploy the StarWind VSAN Free for my client in the two node variant. I have two Windows Server 2025 hosts that use very fast NVME SSD storage each. Each uses a mirror raid of multiple of these disks. Both nodes are directly connected without a...