FYI, our upgrade went OK. Sync took a little long though (4 days)... Looking into getting faster nics...

Thanks Anatoly, looks like we will be scheduling some maintenance soon

We’re currently running a Hyper-V cluster (two nodes) based upon HA Starwind storage (version 5.7). Before we upgrade to 5.8, I want to make sure I get all of the details right. We have Hyper-V node1, Hyper-V node2, Storage node1 and Storage node2. We have HA as well as a few Basic images, in total ...

Thanks guys,

I'm actually building that config as we speak; all links are teamed (802.3ad). Ive got two storage servers and two hyper-V servers. Using MPIO over the teamed links.
Using HP procurve switches that understand LACP.

I'm currently testing with MPIO RoundRobin from server1 to server2 over 2 1Gbit ports per server.
The best speeds I see using Atto is 115MB/s writes and 113MB/s reads (at 1024k blocks) which is what I also get just using 1 Nic port.

Are your results better? What are they?

I've run into a snag.. I was hoping to use NIC teaming (link aggregation) to actually improve the throughput. I was hoping to team 2 1Gb nics to improve speed, thus reaching close to 2Gbit throughput for my iSCSI channels. I have Quad Intel NICs and a HP Procurve 1800 24G, and 802.3ad LACP is suppor...

Found the link here on the forum, I know it solved my issues. If that information becomes a FAQ you may want to consider making it a sticky...

cheers,

Paul

Fixed it, the answer was to be found in that small packets were being read horribly slow, otherwise ATTO shows good performance, just a 0.5 size blocks were 4 to 6 when reading.

This fixed it:
http://sustainablesharepoint.wordpress. ... ith-iscsi/

Hi Anatoly, The NIC's are Intel (on the motherboard) I also have a quad Intel card in the starwind as well as the diskless server, but I'm using the onboad nics. What do you mean by the 'boot server'? What I'm doing now: I've configured static IP addresses on the diskless server, in the Bios nic opt...

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone here had similar experiences with booting from iSCSI: I've got a Starwind HA setup, and one (SuperMicro) server without disks that I want to boot from the Starwind iSCSI target. In the bios of the SuperMicro I can change one of the NICS to use iSCSI & then setup...