Wanted to give you a heads up...while MPIO works with Starwind and VMware in a single subnet, MPIO does NOT work with OS iSCSI Initiators like MS Windows or Linux, although the MPIO config does do RR, data only travels over the primary NIC.So we still need multiple subnets to perform MPIO from with...

One suggestion I have is... Say Node 2 is complete failure. As in replace the box or redo the physical disk scenario. It would be nice if you could start Node 2 from scratch...and "join" it with Node 1, and have it start automatically replicating the HA features without the need to recreat...

Thanks for the comments. Can you expand on the performance improvements of 5.7?

As an aside, 23TB of targets in my mind is incredible. Can you describe your disk subsystem and network interfaces on that?

In regards to the original poster, sounds like you are looking at the Supermicro 836E1. While Adaptec cards works fine, I would lean towards an LSI card since the backplane uses an LSI expander chip. I've had situations where my Adaptec card would not recognize any drives at all on the backplane...I...

Dumb question, but is MCS going to be supproted in the future?

anton (staff) wrote:V5.7 should be published gold in 2-3 weeks from now. We're stalled a little bit with ESX certification.

oxyi wrote:great, good to know, let me download it again and try it.
I will report back.

ETA on 5.7 ?

Can you throw us a bone and tell us exactly what 5.7 has?

Wow! Thank you for taking care of this one :) I had that issue too. You aren't running the latest version. 1667 is the latest. They updated from 1659 sometime a week or two after posting 5.6 was available. Seems to have taken care/helped the issue, so just redownload and you should have the newer v...

I had that issue too.

You aren't running the latest version. 1667 is the latest. They updated from 1659 sometime a week or two after posting 5.6 was available. Seems to have taken care/helped the issue, so just redownload and you should have the newer version.

Is this something that will be fixed in the future?

I guess I don't understand why you give the option of specifying an image, then allow you to create a "new" partner image and have it fail.

HA setup with 5.6 Failover node is wiped out. The "partner" images don't exist. Recreate the targets. In the wizard, select the original "good" img file...thinking you can do a full-resycnc against an empty image on the partner... In the wizard, select the path and file name of w...

Your original thread inspired me to do some testing with Atto over the past few days. I had terrible read performance with 512 bytes. That led me to this article: http://sustainablesharepoint.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/best-practice-for-hyper-v-with-iscsi/ As for the results...this is before changing ...

I think it might be beneficial if you guys (Starwind) would come up and make available standard .icv files for customer troubleshooting and general benchmarking comparison against other systems.

How do you see "recover from full shutdown in a more graceful manner"? I mean what exactly you'd like us to add / fix / replace? We'll release journaling with V5.7 so it would be clear what node fall last and whose data is more up to date. Also sync process should not take that many resou...

No, just basically upgraded to 5.6. After the resync occurs on the first node is when it has problems.

I have however perhaps spotted something. Mooseracing...what nics you using and are you using any teaming?

I don't see any either.