Actually, I'm not a big fan of IOPS either as using IOMeter, I was able to get wildly varying values on our existing SAN just by modifying the block size. As you should, say for example your array's max performance was 300MB/s. This is a maximum of 300*1024*1024 = 314,572,800 B. Therefore if you te...

So yes there is a trade off with a RAID 0, but with 3 Nodes and getting the steps identified so that any of my staff could follow, in the event of failure was easy and acceptable. Having the OS on a mirrored RAID, eliminated the whole server restoration fiasco. Although it is still backed up in cas...

Thinking about this some more if it is able to be done over the same link then we could switch from Dual Port 10GB NIC to Single Port 40GB NIC and have 2x the throughput on the cluster. Would it be possible to have 2 single port 40GB NICs in each server and have them both directly connected and prov...

Hopefully that makes sense although if it doesn't please let me know.

Hello anton, Apologies if I wasn't clear with the Veeam question and I wasn't trying to be non compliant with their license just looking to be license efficient with looking to push backups to tape at our DR center but I will pick that up with them directly. I have been reading some documentation an...

Hello, I am beginning my journey at looking at storage and frankly I think I have found the answer at the first stop. I do have a couple of questions though. For a 2 node StarWind cluster can I use RAID 0 on the SSD L2 cache or is this a bad idea? I ask as this could significantly reduce the cost of...