Is there any magic to upgrading the StarWind iSCSI target? Do I need to power down VMs or pause them? Do I just download and run the installer? Thanks for your help. I will upgrade my setup.

Hello. It seems that lately my StarWind Free Edition consumes all available memory, slows down the storage/virtual environment dramatically, and then hangs up entirely. I have 8GB of memory in the SAN. I've configured a 4GB cache. Shouldn't the Starwind Service *not* consume all of the available mem...

ok, good to know...

my server has 8GB of memory and ONE RAID controller.

The image file is 3.7TB, though approximately 600GB of that is actually used.

Shall I enable write-through caching with 4GB cache? Is that an effective alternative?

hello. I have StarWind iSCSI SAN running on a 2U server with six 1TB SATA drives. The cache set on the 2U server is equal to the hardware- based memory cache on the PERC6/i RAID controller. Take a look at the attachment. You'll notice that there are periods when access times are STELLAR, and then pe...

hello... looking to understand the consequences of cascading software and hardware caches in a virtualized environment. virtualized IIS, SQL, Exchange, BES, and various workloads with iSCSI (Starwind) connectivity to a Dell server with a PERC 6/i controller that has 256MB cache. The cache could be c...