Hello,

of course, csv cache is only read cache. But for VDI, boot stomrs at the morning, loading the os. Is read cache not a good solution?
And the cache is on the hypervisor. no bottleneck on the storagepaths.
For any other scenario, yes, i agree, csv cahe is not a solution...

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Hello, some updates: XENSERVER and intellicache only works with NFS storage. So not possible with starwind and deduplication. OK, we have used hyper-v again. The performance with deduplication was slower compared with no deduplication device. I have read, new version of starwind will improve the per...

Hello, i have attached the docx. The value was 65536 (defualt), now i have 262144 for Max Receive Data Segment Length. Change was made in the starwind console. And i have changed the entry in the cfg file. Before i changed this settings, the xenserver was finding only one path. I have tried it 8 tim...

Hello, i have made 2 additional changes: i have edited the starwind.cfg and there uncommented the <iscsidiscoverylistInterfaces value="1" /> also i have changed in the starwind console the following parameter in the advanced section: Max Receive Data Segmnent Length to the same which is in...

Hello, i have read the manual. There are 2 differences between the scenario in the whitepaper an my. First, i have no HA environmant. Second: My starwind server has 3 nics. one nic for management, 2nd and 3rd nic for iscsi traffic with different subnets on seperate switches. one nic has ip 172.31.24...

Hello, i am trying to use multipathing with starwind 5.8 and xenserver 6.0.2. My xenserver has 2 nics configured with seperate ip subnets and the starwind server has also 2 nics. I have created a device and a target for the xenserver. I have enabled multipathing in the properties of the xenserver. W...

Hello, next week we will start to test xendesktop and data deduplication. Somebody has tested in the meantime? Maybe some best practices? First plan was to use Hyper-V for the virutal desktops. But, i have seen something about intellicache with XENSERVER, maybe the best way is to use for the SAN ded...

Hello,

thanks for your reply. I will try with some vhd for VDI.
At the moment our VDI is not in production use, so i have time to test

Regards

Hello, is with version 5.8 deduplication official released and not experimental? We are planning to implement XENDESKTOP, so deduplication maybe very interesting for our VHD files (we will use hyper-v as hypervisor). About performance: Are there performance disadvantages with deduplication (so you a...

Hello, now i have installed the vss writer on the hyper-v hsot server, which are accessing a csv on a iscsi device.(with the option softwaer and hardware vss). At the moment i have a target "data" with one device "ImageFile1", type "basic virtual". For vss i need an &qu...

Hello, ah, when i use this way "Products" -> "Starwind Free Products" -> "Starwind iSCSI Free Edition" and after that click on download, right, i have : Download StarWind Installer: http://www.starwindsoftware.com/customer/download/starwind.exe This package installs Sta...

Hello, just in this moment i have downloaded the AdCycleBackup_x64.msi. Can i use this to install the hardware vss writer? I do not need the starwind plugin for hyper-v backup, only hardware vss providers. So i can optimize my backup and limit the time where the cluster shared volume is in redirecte...

Hello,

i have authenticated to the download area with my e-mail adr. and passowrd.
After that there was a download available for starwind.exe and the license file.
I have no email from starwind.

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Hello,

i have downloaded Starwind 5.8 (free edition).
I have seen in the installation noted, that Hardware VSS provider are available as seperate download.
Where can i find the providers to download? We want to use them with Microsoft DPM and/or VEEAM B&R v6 for our Hyper-V Cluster

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Hello,

on Twitter i saw a message, new Version 5.8 available, but when i open the link, there is a beta web site.
Is the official release not available?
Do you mean beta 5.8 is available?

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