We can do 4KB blocks on top of a 512e disks but we cannot do 512e on top of a 4KB (and this is what Storage Spaces expose). So everything seems to work as expected. With my "lowly user cap" on - as a user, why can't you do 512byte on a 4k block? - My plaform (Xen) only supports 512byte - ...

I've found a work-around for this... If you use Computer Manager to create a 'Spanned Disk' out of the 2 SSD's - you'll end up with 2 'Dynamic Disks' spanned into 1 NTFS volume - which can then be used by StarWind. The only downside to this is of course you don't get any of the 'niceties' of Windows...

Hi, I have a StarWind v8 build 8730 system here. The system has 2 * 250Gb SSD's in I'd like to pool with Windows Storage Pools and create a 'Simple' virtual disk atop of those (Simple = RAID0) - and then create one large StarWind virtual disk atop of that - but it fails. Install WS2012 R2 - install ...

Hi, We last looked at StarWind when it was v6. We ran into an issue way-back-then that due to block size differences you couldn't put StarWind data on Windows storage pools. So we're trying v8 at the moment. I have 2 * 2012 R2 servers. I create a Storage Pool comprising of 2 * 4Tb SATA drives on eac...

Hi,

Which logs do you want? - Any pointers where I can get them from (i.e. if there's some other logs from within StarWind) - I'm only aware of the 'Server Log' tab in the StarWind Management Console.

Thanks

-Karl

Hi, We're evaluating StarWind for Hyper-V (6.0.5713) We've got three identical WS2012 R2 servers - they boot off of one SSD, and they have two other SSD's in them for storage. We've found if we RAID these (e.g. RAID0) with the on board controller (embedded LSI) - write performance is poor. If we cre...