Updating hardware is not enough. You need to apply some tricks to make TCP work fast with iSCSI: Nagle, Delayed ACK etc.

Sorry, before VTL, CDP, De-Duplication and complete new web GUI we'll not do (and even THINK) about anything else.

Travelcard wrote:No probs, thanks for the quick reply.

Keep IMG files on RAID. Do backups.

Travelcard wrote:The only reason we were thinking of using smaller images, would be in case the Starwind IMG file became corrupted somehow. If it did and we only had one large IMG file, we would lose all of our VHD files too.

Multiple partially used images (hard disks) is only waste of space. Unless you'll use thin provisioning (and it's slow).

You're correct. We're busy with the other things and don't have this one on the schedule yet.

Travelcard wrote:Don't mean to bug you while you are busy with other things, but just wondering if you are making progress with this or if the idea has been shelved?

Thanks

You need to wait for StarPort with iSCSI mirroring feature to do this. It will allow to RAID1 your local image (partition) and remote iSCSI target controlled one. I plan on setting up an HP DL320s server with 3TB of local storage. I will be doing boot to SAN using Qlogic adapters. I have tested this...

Start with sending us StarWind logs generated during unsuccessful attempt to connect from ESX. Please zip them and send to support@rocketdivision.com with few comments about who you are, what you're doing and so on. We'll sort the issue out ASAP. Thanks!

Start with sending us StarWind log to support@rocketdivision.com. Thank you!

Better ask twice then do something wrong multiple times

mastachef wrote:Okay, just checking. I have a bad habit of 2nd guessing myself. Thank you.

In a nutshell - EVERYTHING. Try reading this: http://www.starwindsoftware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1392 Hope it will help :) Love the software. Vista and XP can connect to img files no problem. However, I am setting up an ESX test environment in workstation 6 and cannot get 2 ESX hosts to share a ...

You're asking a question you already know the answer for :) And the answer is NO. NEVER. Neither StarWind nor any other iSCSI target nor any other SAN software/hadware will do what you want. Use MetaSAN, Sanbolic MelioFS or DataPlow's SFS or any other SAN-capable file system or extra arbiter. I have...

SP2 should not be a problem. Unless NIC driver also changed and started to play it's own games. Sure, waiting for your logs :) Thank you! I think the version of starwind was a red herring here, as I am now having problems with the server on the older version as well. I thought I had fixed it when I ...

1) Did you try what I've suggested you to do? :) 2) support@starwind.com I think :) Sound like for some reason license was not really applied... Could you please try to unregister, restart StarWind service, try to register free license again, connect with iSCSI initiator and send us StarWind log? Th...

Summary: StarPort was not the one to blame. Nice to know this! On your place I'd go for iSCSI but commercial target. Modern NICs do offload TCP in such a perfect way you should not see any slowdown b/c of the extra TCP and IP stacks processing. So using CoRAID shelves + StarPort makes sense (b/c of ...

Sound like for some reason license was not really applied... Could you please try to unregister, restart StarWind service, try to register free license again, connect with iSCSI initiator and send us StarWind log? Thank you! Hello all -- I am trying to use the free license for my home setup. When I ...