Hi there, i was just trying to search for Multipaths within Windows Server 2012 R2 with the latest Starwind V8 installed, a error came up that was telling me MSVCR110.dll is missing and mpiocpl.exe could not be started. I solved it by installing the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012....

Hi there! I've got a question about where to use which IP address, and what it might affect. (sounds very simple, but i haven't understood it right how starwind handles it) I'm rebuilding my home lab, consisting of 2 nodes(with starwind and Hyper-v on them) and I'm a little confused. Here are my Net...

Hi there! Finally :) They, 2x Samsung Evo 840 SSD - 250GB, have arrived. And, I did some initial benchmarks. Here are the Results from Atto: 840_ntfs_compared.png They are not as fast as they could be: only got s-ata II on those boards. I also noticed that those CPUs aren't exactly the same. left on...

Setup has progressed to the state of waiting for the ssd's.
I've tested (Memtest, prime) the hardware and installed 2 win2k12r2 servers.
thats how it looks like now:

Hi there! Thanks for your reply. As my other lab is currently occupied with some test systems running for my academic studies, I'm setting up a "new" lab (again with tiered storage spaces) to test that behavior again. Student -> Limited Budget -> old hardware. I've got 2 Supermicro X7DB8 B...

OK. Let me know if additional data is needed

yes. I'm sure. but maybe this is because of the "main performance" comes from the ssd's and they are 512b?
(you can also verify this in the image: the 4k bench doesn't include 512b test values)

Hi there, I would also vote for a personal testing license. (Especially with HA feature >128GB) I'm highly interested in this kind of features and I'd like to play with it. Put my virutal machines on it(DC/Exchange/Database/teamspeak/xmpp/svn...) Like Sc1entia said, it would be so cool to have the p...

Hi there! Thanks, again, for your help! I've got things running in the meantime, and it's "fast" :) Here is what I get with atto if i perform a benchmark on the storage-space locally: storage_spaces_localhost.png I've compared performance accessing targets with 4k and 512b sector size and ...

u mean i need to delete the existing storagespace? absolutely no problem

Hi there! Thanks for your reply. I was just digging into this, and I've already verified that I can successfully create a 4096b sector size disc. (Performance is horrible though) I'm currently trying to get this "right" Here is what I found out so far: storage_spaces_options.png Looks like...

Hi there!
Thanks for your reply. I've run the command you recommended, here are the results: Thanks for your help!
Kind regards from germany

I've tried to add a file not residing on the storagespaces to the same target... works as usual.
Looks like there is a "problem" / I found a "unsupported configuration"

Hi there, I'm currently trying Starwind8 iSCSI RC2(Version 8.0.6694 it says) on a Windows Server 2012 R2. I've previously used a Starwind8 RC1 (i guess) and I've recently upgraded to the new RC2. The Targets / Devices which I created with the old version seem to work.(Though I didn't test much, just...

Hi there, today I found some time to do a couple of benchmarks. First i did some tests with iperf (--parallel 8 and 16; -w 256 and 512) The results were more or less the same than reported some days ago. So, they seem "legit". To verify those results, I've created a 2gb ramdisk and benchma...