First, this software is very cool. It is lightning fast and I love the features.
That being said, I have been running StarWind 3.5.5 and I can not find any combination that is stable. I have tried running it on Vista sp1 and on XP sp3. When used in conjunction with the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator (latest version) and an image file target it is blazingly fast until the StarWind server crashes. I have atteched the logs and I'd be happy to supply the dumps. I tried to attach them but they must be too big because it kept failing.
So, I thought maybe there is a problem with the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator and got a copy of StarPort 3.6.3. With the StarPort -> StarWind configuration it ran ok at first (not nearly as fast as with MS Initiator) then the StarPort machine degraded to the point that the entire system was hung. I don't really have any logs from that machine because it wasn't possible to get any. I could probably reproduce that and forcibly crash the process before it hangs to get a dump.
I haven't tried windows server 2003 yet but can do so tonight. My hope is to run it on a Windows Vista sp1 machine though. I could run it in a VM but that is clearly suboptimal.
I have tried both of the above scenarios with initiator and target on the same machine and on different machines.
I am trying to use it to write backups from multiple workstations to a single storage array.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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