StarWind Software

Hello All,
I'm considering implementing Starwind and wanted to run my thoughts by the forum.
I'm looking at a Dell Poweredge 29xx series box with dual core cpu(x2), 16gb ram a pcie sas raid adapter and a pcie scsi perc raid adapter. I have a MD1000 SAS cage, and 2 220S scsi drive cages. In total I have about 4.5Tb of storage that will be hanging off this server.

For the server O/S it will be Windows Server 2003 enterprise R2.

Is 16gb a waste or can Starwind use that much memory?

Thanks in Advance, Sandor

No it is not. If you'd use image files (instead of mapping whole disk or just partition as an iSCSI target volume) and will select "asyncrhonous" and "cached" modes - whole 16GB of RAM (well, as much as Windows will allow us to use actually...) will be used as a huge cache buffer. This dramatically boosts system performance, IOps and response time.

tnsandman wrote:Hello All,
I'm considering implementing Starwind and wanted to run my thoughts by the forum.
I'm looking at a Dell Poweredge 29xx series box with dual core cpu(x2), 16gb ram a pcie sas raid adapter and a pcie scsi perc raid adapter. I have a MD1000 SAS cage, and 2 220S scsi drive cages. In total I have about 4.5Tb of storage that will be hanging off this server.

For the server O/S it will be Windows Server 2003 enterprise R2.

Is 16gb a waste or can Starwind use that much memory?

Thanks in Advance, Sandor