SCVMM/ SMI-S and SSD Cache

dlyoung455 · Sun May 29, 2016 8:45 pm

I have setup SCVMM using the SMI-S provider. I was able provision LUNs to the Hyper-V hosts. I notice when I provision via SCVMM; I don't have a option to use Cache Drive with a LUN. Its understandable because its different in each storage vendor. How would we retrofit SCVMM SMI-S created LUN with Cache after the fact? Is there Power shell command I can use to accomplish this?

David
Chicago Public Schools

Mon May 30, 2016 8:50 am

Hello David,

First of all, thank you for the question.
For now if you want to change L1 cache, you can find it over here:
https://knowledgebase.starwindsoftware. ... -l1-cache/

Or wait for a new release build with those features.

Thank you.

dlyoung455 · Mon Jun 06, 2016 2:34 am

So I see the entries on StarWind.CFG but the examples are only for .img not lsfs1. Here is my entry

<device name="lsfs1" DataPath="My Computer\E\Storage\Pool0\csv01.spsp" CacheMode="none" PoolName="Gold" PhySectorSize="4096" SectorSize="4096"/>

I have SSD drives
See attachment for path to SSD Cache.

So using lsfs how would command look like?

Tue Jun 07, 2016 9:21 am

Could you clarify what cache type you want to change?

If it is L2 cache, so you need to go here:
https://knowledgebase.starwindsoftware. ... dance/661/

Thank you.