Starwind (IBV mode) and SQL Server

[HelderConde]

Hi,

I'm running Starwind software as a virtual SAN to my virtual machines. All of them running perfectly in .IMG mode. Very solid!

I've set one LUN to be my SQL storage place. Since it will store quite critical data, I decided to make it IBV instead of IMG, so that I can have "temporary backups/snapshots" every couple of hours. This is the only LUN I have running as IBV.

Although it appears to be running fine, our SQL admin guy has been reporting that some files on that particular LAN are getting currupt every now and then, despite the fact that no downtime nor any errors are reported by Starwind Logs.

So I decided to ask: should I make that LUN run as IMG instead of IBV? Does this make any difference or can the problem be somewhere else?

Thanks in advance!

Helder Conde

[HelderConde]

Oh, forgot to mention that I'm *not* using caching.

Thanks!

Helder

[Max (staff)]

Hello HelderConde,
This situation has too much variables for such kind of a behaviour, let's do the following:
Drom me an e-mail (support@starwindsoftware.com) with a brief disk config description (using GPT or GUID partition tables)
I would also require starwind logs and the info on the time when the data get's corrupted.