Hi, Performance varies, of course, but with StarWind RAM cache u. LSFS it's comparable to the native Windows volume. Here are some numbers running MS SQLIO v1.5.SG with 32 threads writing for 30 secs to a 1 GB file using 64KB random IOs, multiple I/Os per thread with 1 outstanding: Windows volume wh...

Hi Anton, 1) Build 8116 seems to handle LSFS volumes better i.e. the sync seems to go faster, and garbage collection seems to work, too. 2) Areca has problems with SSDs and HDDs on the same controller. Once we removed the SSDs completely, performance of the HDD arrays improved. With these 2 changes,...

We run a hyper-converged Virtual SAN (v8.0.7929) on 2 SuperMicro X9DRD-7LN4F nodes with Win 2012 R2. Each has 128 GB RAM, 5x 4TB Seagate ST4000NM0023, 1x Areca 1882IX-24 Controller. For now, we use only 2 vSAN HA images with LSFS, each has 2TB and 16 GB L1 cache. After a clean shutdown and startup o...