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Vladyslav Savchenko
  • Vladyslav Savchenko
  • February 6, 2025

StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) vs Mysterious Software-Defined Storage (SDS), Part 3: VMware vSphere HCI Performance Benchmarking, TCP & RDMA

How does StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) stack up against a “Mysterious” software-defined storage (SDS) contender? We put them to the test in a 2-node cluster environment using NVMe over TCP & RDMA configurations. The results? Some surprises, some confirmations, and a whole lot of insight for IT pros.
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Dmytro Malynka
  • Dmytro Malynka
  • November 7, 2024

RDMA: A Deep Dive into Remote Direct Memory Access

Dealing with latency and CPU load? RDMA might be the answer. It enables data to move directly between devices, bypassing traditional bottlenecks.
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Volodymyr Perishko
  • Volodymyr Perishko
  • August 2, 2024

StarWind has set hyperconvergence performance record. Let’s get behind the scenes

Hyperconvergence has dramatically transformed data center landscape over the past few years. New technologies are being developed, good old ones are being improved… We live in exciting times! And as data centers are becoming more reliable and powerful, it is important to get more out of the hardware in use: nobody likes to leave money on the table! Intel, Mellanox and StarWind have teamed up to develop a Hyper-V highly available cluster where you’ll get awesome performance without compromising ease of manageability of the environment. This article discusses the measurements in brief, showcasing the recent results.
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Vladislav Karaiev
  • Vladislav Karaiev
  • July 25, 2024

The Essential Guide to Data Backup and Recovery

Is your business prepared for dataloss or cyberattacks? Our latest guide covers everything you need to know about data backup and data recovery.
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Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • April 4, 2024

iSCSI vs NVMe-oF: Performance Comparison

Discover our latest SPDK iSCSI vs. NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) performance benchmarks, and understand which protocol excels in speed and efficiency for your specific use cases.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • March 23, 2023

Use cases for Raw Device Mapping (RDM), Persistent Memory (PMem), Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) and NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)

Everything depends on your organization’s needs and goals. VMware, like other big virtualization vendors, supports a multitude of popular and proprietary technologies related to storage performance. It can be quite confusing which one to choose when, so we’ve prepared a succinct blog post for you to follow to optimize your IT infrastructure.
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Vladyslav Savchenko
  • Vladyslav Savchenko
  • October 4, 2018

StarWind rPerf: All-in-one free tool for ensuring the maximum performance level of your RDMA network connections

Nowadays we often meet systems with RDMA connections configured for increasing the performance of the system. Also, it’s not a news that we can meet environments with the different OS installed. In our case, we will be looking into a vital aspect of the process – the performance of RDMA connections. So, let’s have a look at the configuration of RDMA and what we need for building and testing RDMA connections, problems that you possibly can face, and the final part is making it perform in a way that will make us happy. So, let’s start.
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Didier Van Hoye
  • Didier Van Hoye
  • September 27, 2018

Does low latency, high throughput & CPU offloading require RDMA?

Does low latency, high throughput & CPU offloading require RDMA? What? Blasphemy, how dare we even question this? In my defense, I’m not questioning anything. I am merely being curious. I’m the inquisitive kind. The need for RDMA is the premise that we have been working with ever since RDMA became available outside of HPC InfiniBand fabrics. For us working in the Windows ecosystem this was with SMB Direct. Windows Server 2012 was the OS version that introduced us to SMB Direct, which leverages RDMA.
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Didier Van Hoye
  • Didier Van Hoye
  • April 17, 2018

SMB Direct – The State of RDMA for use with SMB 3 traffic (Part II)

The Flavors of RDMA & what role DCB plays.
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