StarWind Virtual SAN has a very user-friendly and nice interface which allows IT guys to do most of the operations only in a couple of clicks and provides a one sight overview of all virtual storage related happenings in the environment including pop-up notifications. Accurate and non-intrusive windows-based error reporting makes it quite easy to…
Multiple servers accessing the same iSCSI target of NTFS/ReFS volume
Questions about possible issues with multiple servers accessing the same iSCSI target to NTFS or ReFS formatted volume are often discussed among people who run applications that are already highly available by design and do not need Microsoft Failover Cluster but still need some shared storage and preferably a highly available one. Letting multiple hosts use…
Using Microsoft DiskSpd to test StarWind Virtual SAN storage performance
I have used IOMeter for a long period to test different types of storage performance. It has a simple and informative GUI and is very flexible in terms of test patterns and testing results are quite holistic and logical. Being a DOS child I still sometimes prefer doing things using shell and keyboard instead of clicking….