StarWind Software

I´ve read all the posts related to LSFS devices uncontrollable grow and still can´t see a plausible solution to the fact that we are running out of space (wich already happened in my case).

My questions....Is there still no way to (manually) tell starwind to execute a LSFS log files maintenance? Is there any way to convert a LSFS device to IMG files (whithout losing data) to prevent this from happening..on and on...

Really need to solve this.
Appreciate any help.

No, unfortunately no. The best workaround that we have until the fix will arrive (should be in the month) is to move all data from LSFS devices to thick provisioned ones.

Any chance to mount offline an LSFS disk to extract the information????? I´m trying to avoid copying 5TB of information via iSCSI.....

Would you mind updating the StarWind to the beta build that contain fixes for the issue?
Please refer to this thread, and let us know if that helped:
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/forums/ ... =17&t=3947

Theoretically, it should allow you to mount not active LSFS as well.

Thanks for your quick reply....it is obvious you are working hard on this. Well, had to move fast to IMG fixed size disk (painful process of course )... I´ll be back to LSFS in production after you release the bugfixed RTM version and let you know....

May I wonder why trying out fix doesn`t work for you please?

It does.... deploying a second starwindfixed LSFS storage server rigth now, keeping the current IMG based just in case...feedback later....

Thanks!

Finished installing the new (fixed) starwind server using https://tmplink.starwind.com/StarWindBeta.exe whith the following results:

The option to (manually) trigger defragmentation of the LSFS device is now available. Clicked that option and my 5TB datastore went from 7.65TB to 4.61TB size on disk in a couple hours, but....

- Statistics about device fragmentation status are somewhat crazy, I think:
User data is said to be in the order of Petabytes!!!
Fragmented Data is only 50 GB, however recovered more than 3TB of disk space after defragmentation.
Fragmentation Percent is stucked at 100% even after defragmentation has already occurred.

- Mounting time is still sky high: 5 hours in my case mounting a 5TB device.

Im not yet been able to check the integrity of the data inside the datastore because Starwind service now crushes ramdonly with Event ID 1000 due to failure on module ntdll.dll....Dont know if this is a driver/hardware/software(starwind) malfunction. Never happened before with the previous versions of Starwind/HW. Such kind of behavior could be caused sometimes by resource exhaustion (high memory consumption), which I dont think is the case...

What would be really desirable in my opinion:
- Autodefragmentation should (actually) trigger when I/O demand is low.
- It should be possible to execute manual defragmentation (with high priority) as a time-windowed scheduled task with an start and end time.
- Mounting time is too high. Still an issue to work on.


Ill keep testing.....

Thank you very much for comprehensive feedback!
Could you please send us log file from StarWind service for the session that finished with crash? Or even all the /logs directory in zip-archive, if it is OK for you.

Thank you very much for the feedback.