A lot of things depend on the workload. If cache has nothing to cache then enabling it will slow down the performance. In any case to troubleshoot the issue support will ask you to turn both L1 and L2 completely to see how underlying storage can go with NO caching enabled (or 100% cache miss situat...

Also, if you turn on Level 2 cache, disable it by commenting it out of the configuration. Level 2 cache has weird performance issues (some times it's near 100%, other times I get only 25%). Can you tell me where exactly the configuration file is and what the process is for making these changes (par...

I have been testing further and it looks like the issues may be due to my L1 cache being set a 128MB. I've created a new device and found in another Starwind guide the recommendation to use 1GB of L1 cache per 1TB. The performance is better. I will test more and report the results.

Completed the setup outlined in: http://www.starwindsoftware.com/styles-v2/pdf/technical_papers/StarWind-Virtual-SAN-Hyper-Converged-2-Node-Cluster-VMware-vSphere.pdf I have an HA volume setup between the two Starwind Controller VMs that is 1TB in size. Jumbo frames are turned on within the NICs of ...