Thanks, Anton, for the hints. It seems my scenario fits in metaSAN.

I've seen there is a guide in your library to use metaSAN with StarPort.

My only unanswered question now is if low-bandwidth LUN mirroning can be band constrained and if replication may be set synchronous or asynchronous.

Do metadata and data stored in a mirrored LUN get corrupted if an initiator connects in read only mode to copy 1 of the LUN and another one connects in r/w mode to copy 2 of the LUN? Or does setting replication active between two copies of a LUN require r/w to be enabled on both copies? Just asking....

This is the scenario: - two plants A and B with Windows network - people at plant A produces and uses documents - people at plant B uses documents produced by people at plant A - plant A and B would like to live share documents - plant A and plant B are connected with a 4 Mbit/s link (almost full) P...

Do not use SPTI for disk exporting. It is slow and designed mainly for burners. Please use DiskBridge instead. Disk Bridge module does complete emulation of the SCSI layer that allows any type of hard drives (PATA/SATA/RAID) to be used by remote initiator clients. Thanks Bohdan. I re-exported the p...

Hello. I hope you haven't exported your system disk via iSCSI. No, the system disk is a PATA 80 GB disk and I created a 16 GB partition for installing Windows XP Pro 32-bit and StarWind 3.5.3. Rest of disk is unused. Disk published by StarWind is a single independent SATA 500 GB disk. Have you used...

StarWind 3.5.3 publishes a 500 GB SATA disk which is attached to a Windows XP box running VMware Server 1.0.5 using the MS iSCSI Initiator 2.0.6. I copied a test VM folder from the local disk to the iSCSI volume, added the VM to the VMware catalog and started it. I received a bunch of errors like th...

Who edited my message? I didn't.

Anyway, thank you.

What I don't understand fully is why the machine where StarWind runs in does not show a 100% CPU usage, nor a 40 Mbit/s network usage. Does it mean that it is actually the I/O subsystem that forces the system in idle waits?

Current test machines: (1) Win 2003 STD 64-bit SP2 with 1.5 GiB RAM + StarWind 3.5.3 (2) Win XP PRO 32-bit SP2 with 1 GiB RAM + MSiSCSIInit/StarPort TTCP says (1) and (2) have a link that can do about 40 Mbit/s. HDTune says average transfer rate for the SATA disk I will publish from (1) as iSCSI LUN...

Are there directions for configuring two StarWind storage servers to be used as external iSCSI storage for a 2-node VMware ESX 3.5 Server with HA option enabled?