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    Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2

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    • FATeknollogeeF
      FATeknollogee @KOOLER
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      @KOOLER said in Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2:

      Thank you for this one! we're finalizing the things with our Linux-based ESXi, Xen and KVM appliances so far so no Windows install would be required 😉

      Will the performance of the appliances be as good or better than the native windows install?

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      • Oles BorysO
        Oles Borys
        last edited by

        Thank you for going for it!
        Just in case here are the guidances you might find helpful:
        VMware 2 node HC
        Hyper-V 2 node HC
        StarWind HA device configuration

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        • RomoR
          Romo
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          @scottalanmiller what is the size of the vm's disk?

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @Romo
            last edited by

            @Romo said in Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2:

            @scottalanmiller what is the size of the vm's disk?

            200GB in this example. You can log in directly and play with it if you want. @Ambarishrh has the login details.

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            • AmbarishrhA
              Ambarishrh
              last edited by

              Thanks @scottalanmiller for setting this up. Was planning to work on this during the holidays here, but things didn't go as planned. Few other things came up and had to travel. I will be working on this from today and post my feedback. Thanks once again

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              • AmbarishrhA
                Ambarishrh
                last edited by

                Logged in to the server and checked. Added the SAN storage to the DB1 server for now

                http://i.imgur.com/kHBLKs4.png

                http://i.imgur.com/g2apxcB.png

                http://i.imgur.com/po1dtjx.png

                Starwind SAN requires CHAP secret details to be added on the ISCSI connector or else you get won't be able to connect and status shows inactive.
                http://i.imgur.com/bPhJlN6.png

                http://i.imgur.com/ekwQe8s.png

                Then add the drive via Computer Management
                http://i.imgur.com/WHf80ED.png

                http://i.imgur.com/kbVw3Ww.png

                http://i.imgur.com/SCuDeOp.png

                http://i.imgur.com/AMn3RkO.png

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                • KOOLERK
                  KOOLER Vendor @dafyre
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                  @dafyre said in Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2:

                  @KOOLER said in Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2:

                  Thank you for this one! we're finalizing the things with our Linux-based ESXi, Xen and KVM appliances so far so no Windows install would be required 😉

                  O.o Sweet! I'll help beta test!

                  DEAL 🙂

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                  • hobbit666H
                    hobbit666
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                    Very interested in seeing a Linux App for the VSAN. Can't say I could BETA test as i'm still trying to get 2 servers to play with lol.

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                    • FATeknollogeeF
                      FATeknollogee
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                      Paging @KOOLER Will the performance of the appliances be as good or better than the native windows install?

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                      • RomoR
                        Romo @FATeknollogee
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                        @FATeknollogee said in Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2:

                        Paging @KOOLER Will the performance of the appliances be as good or better than the native windows install?

                        It must be at least as good, why release an inferior product.

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                        • FATeknollogeeF
                          FATeknollogee @Romo
                          last edited by FATeknollogee

                          @Romo Coz that's what they had said in the past.

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                          • mlnewsM
                            mlnews @Romo
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                            @Romo said in Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2:

                            @FATeknollogee said in Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2:

                            Paging @KOOLER Will the performance of the appliances be as good or better than the native windows install?

                            It must be at least as good, why release an inferior product.

                            Much lower cost. And the lower cost all comes from external parties, so more money to spend on Starwind!

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                            • KOOLERK
                              KOOLER Vendor @FATeknollogee
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                              @FATeknollogee said in Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2:

                              Paging @KOOLER Will the performance of the appliances be as good or better than the native windows install?

                              Native implementations, especially ones written with a modern CPUs in mind (user-mode, polling instead of an interrupt-driven I/O, think about Intel SPDK/DPDK) will be faster to anything running inside a VM. There are some ways to "fix" this by SR-IOV network and storage hardware (RDMA-capable NICs and NVMe) right into "controller" VM but hardware partners we're working with (mellanox) have some issues with RDMA inside a VMs so FOR NOW native implementation is going to be faster.

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                              • KOOLERK
                                KOOLER Vendor @Romo
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                                @Romo said in Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2:

                                @FATeknollogee said in Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2:

                                Paging @KOOLER Will the performance of the appliances be as good or better than the native windows install?

                                It must be at least as good, why release an inferior product.

                                Nissan has GT-R cracking 0-100 in sub 3 seconds but it doesn't mean Nissan Altima doing same 0-100 in low 10s suck 😉 Every product has own target niche.

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