Hi mate,

It would be great if you share some technical details of your future configuration where starwind is involved. Just to share some ideas and discuss?

The other point is that you are facing such issues in Azure. It's rather weird, so looks like something is misconfigured. Could you please give a brief description of your configuration and goals you are trying to achieve? Is it a POC or production?

I've been suffering from such kind of warnings on my older homelab servers. After some digging I have found following parameters in c:\Program Files\StarWind Software\StarWind\StarWind.cfg : <CmdExecTimeWarningLimitInMs value="20000"/> <!--If command execution time is more than this value(...

Yepp, exactly. In the case of a clean and graceful shutdown, everything will go up and running fully automatically since it's a supported scenario for both starwind and ms cluster.

Dark Knight, Prince of Darkness

Imagine, if your servers go out of power with a delay between them, so one will have consistent data and the other one not and they will start syncing automatically in the wrong direction... not the best case I believe. Just get a UPS for one of them, so it shut downs cleanly and goes automatically ...

You're welcome, mate.

As for console problems, I advise you to take a look into C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\StarWind\5\Console. There are pretty enough logs in there that can put some light on your issue I hope.

Noticed almost the same performance issues with L2 cache a while ago. Starwind officials promised somewhere on the forum - they will significantly improve L2 performance in the upcoming build. So far I am waiting for an update and using a flat device on SSDs for performance-critical VM's and LSFS on...

Hi, Since you still have a working console on one of the hosts, that should not be a problem. I usually use management console from my laptop or separate management machine without having to RDP to starwind servers each time. Anyways, I believe a problem with a console is fixed after the server rebo...

AFAIK Veeam dedupes (compresses) it's own backups already. So you want to dedupe already compressed data once again?

fstd, what kind of starwind device are you using? L1 cache? L2 cache?

0x28 SCSI opcode seems to me like some issues with reading...

Hi Jviera, The free version of starwind does not allow external block-level access over iSCSI to your LUNs. But Windows Scale-Out-File-Server does the job. Install the role on both servers along with MS Failover Cluster, arm it with locally mirrored CSVs provided by starwind and give it out as SMB 3...

Just remove the disk from Cluster Shared Volumes in Failover Cluster and then readd it again.

RAID10 if possible to sleep well at night

I have 4 x Samsung 850 EVO in RAID10. Using them as an HA device for performance critical VM's and for pagefiles. Works like a charm.

Sienar , take a look to LSFS technical description: https://knowledgebase.starwindsoftware.com/explanation/lsfs-device-technical-description/ Limits and requirements Required free RAM (it is not related to L1 cache): 4.6 GB of RAM per 1 TB initial LSFS size (with deduplication disabled) 7.6 GB of R...

There is no difference in performance for sure. So you can configure it according to your wishes. I prefer using vmdk since it's just more flexible in terms of possible reconfiguration/storage provisioning.