Sure. Upcoming version of StarWind (the one we have under heavy development) has log-structured file system. Component completely eliminating random writes killing virtualized environments. It's VM I/O-aware layer, something similar to what Virsto and Tintri do. It does all writes in sequential way...

anton (staff) wrote:My preferred scenario is - StarWind running directly on SoFS servers. If you cannot manage skip using them and cannot install StarWind directly on Hyper-V nodes (w/o any external hardware).

You mean using the NAS configurator & have Starwind as "backend" storage for the FS?

On the Technet forum VR38DETT (Starwind employee) said V6 is out and it can do both. You may however will to wait for upcoming one with log-structuring to fight I/O blender and flash level cache. Fow now dedupe is slowing down I/O but it will increase IOPS. Anton, Can you share more info on ".....

Anton, thx for the links. I'll start reading & studying asap!

If v6 is used as NAS, is this kinda what the architecture would look like? With iSCSI replacing the FC?



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Since v6 now supports Clustered Scale-Out NAS:

Using Server 2012, does the NAS support:
1) SMB 3.0
2) Hyper-V VMs from the file share

These are good ones! At least you're not going to blow your SSDs with your performance tests :) BTW, make sure you don't fill them more then 50% as they will have performance degradation. 50% is not a problem for these STEC SSDs (reading from their whitepaper) According to STEC, this is what separa...

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Anton,

I will definitely keep you posted.

Slight delay, as I have to return the STEC 200GB SLC SSD sample (Z16IZF2E-200UCU).

It's replacement will be the 100GB version (Z16IZF2E-100UCU)

No updates yet, was hoping to "acquire" a few more Seagate 1TB NL-SAS drives.

These 2.5" drives are not easy to find at a reasonable price!!

Hope to start later this week!!

I'm really trying to make this a simple test. Single Hyper-V host, hosting a few vm's with iSCSI storage connected via 10GbE. Some of the hardware shown was chosen since I plan to also test ZFS/Nexenta. The 12x 10GbE ports is more for show, it looks good in the pics! Aitor, any ideas on how one can ...

I would like to perform some simple tests comparing a few different flavors of iSCSI SAN software I'm primarily interested in comparing performance (aka "speed" - IOPS, installing o/s, copying files etc). Dedup will not be part of this test. After reading these (see links below), I disagre...

Thx for the email.

I just sent you another email with some questions

Any updates on the Starwind test reports (vs other competing entities)?

Anton, at 18TB (that's a lot of data) if it was production data, I would be willing to pay for support.

That's just my opinion.