It's on the wish list for a lot of us. 1) Change cache/size and method 2) Change network interfaces without recreating target 3) If a node goes off the deep end being able to re-create the partner image with a sync without having to drop the target, copying over an img file, re-creating the target a...

No problem, after you wrote that I thought I was nuts.

But the question still stands...5.8 to 6.0 without interruption?

From the release notes on 5.8: Warning: The existing HA devices cannot be upgraded to version 5.8 without bringing the storage offline for a short time. Please, take the following steps to update the existing HA devices: 1. To prevent data loss, disconnect clients from HA (if it is possible). 2. Upd...

Will 5.9/6.0 allow online updating..meaning won't have to take entire HA down like we did from 5.7 to 5.8?

Do we have an ETA on official 5.9 yet?

Just curious if you read up on the next SMB versions in regards to clustering/fault tolerance and how Starwind fits in with it all.

I know this is somewhat out of the realm of Starwind and I hope they allow some leeway... But what is everyone's experience writing or reading from a hyper-v guest housed on a CSV? I have a 3 node cluster...iSCSI performance is great with Starwind. Atto within a hyper-v guest is great as well. Howev...

With flow control on, did it affect max speed, or did you see more of a zig zag pattern? Meaning did it hit the max, then back down, then back up, etc. with it enabled?

Can someone (probably should be Starwind) create a standard .icf file in iometer and upload it so we have something common to run?

Does task manager show both iscsi interfaces utilized at around 50% when you do the test?

Yeah, I'm maxing out the iSCSI connections with bluk reads/writes. No problems there. And the sync channel will do over 350MB/a sec now where before it was around 120. It is getting into the area of what my storage is capable of...considering I'm running this while 20 other VMs are running against t...

Not sure what to say...however I created a simple 50 GB HA target (with 1 GB write-back cache) and attached it to one my hyper-v nodes just for testing purposes, no CSV or anything like that. Connected multipath to it using 2 1Gb interfaces round robin. The starwind servers have 10Gb CX4 interfaces ...

Upgrade went fine. No issues.

Sync is much faster....around 2-3x of previous versions.

So where we at with the official release of 5.7?

Alex (staff) wrote:kmax,
we are already working on this feature, it's planned for 5.8 release.
Thank you!

Awesome.

If you combined this, the ability to extend HA target size, snapshotting, and modify cache settings there wouldn't much else to complain about.