No real reply. I think I might have to call it a day in using starwind I have recommended it highly in the past but in this instance its just not up to parr. Installing any apps is next to impossible on a vhdx mounted on an iscsi device. 7 hours to install SQL this is absurd!

1. Upgraded from v6 to v8
2. currently running a copy into an iscsi attached disk 2-4mb transfer speed.
3. I have done all the recommended steps but still see very slow performance?

1. Broke the Network team ( although this has never been an issue in the past )
2. Setup multipathing
3. I am getting the same issues, worse now transfer sits at 0bytes on a copy then shoots to 7-8mbs then goes back down to 0bytes there is currently no other I/o to the san

Please ignore my question re Native SAN I just did a quick install on my machine and it indeed does. So only question is could I do an in place upgrade? As with all SANS advisable to stop all I/O I guess !?! Can I mount the ibv locally so I may extract the data to a different volume as backup before...

Hi Anton, thank you for the reply, a few questions: 1. Can I do an in place upgrade to v8 or is it recommended to remove starwind completely and start from scratch. 2. Will my "devices" remain intact? 3. Is v8 Native ie my SAN is a physical windows 2012 R2 server - NOT hyperV I prefer to u...

I forgot to mention I am using Native San v6 not virtual san product.

TOPOLOGY 1 x windows 2012 R2 with LACP Team x 2gb - Host / HyperV 1 x windows 2012 R2 with LACP Team x 2gb - RAID 10 - ISCSI SAN Connected into a 1GB Managed Switch I have setup iscsi starwind on the storage server. Mapped a lun to a windows 2012 r2 Hyper-V host. Connection is all fine however when ...