IOmeter testing Starwind storage !?!?!?

that_kid · Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:18 pm

anton (staff) wrote:This is not exactly true... Linux actually has better network and storage stack (OK, from the performance point of view, I know a lot about internal design of both and NT architecture is definitely a winner). So StarWind running on the top of the Linux box actually shows 20-30% better results (mostly latency and I/O load) compared to the NT version USING THE SAME HARDWARE.

Did I miss something, is there a linux version of Starwind?

Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:51 pm

VSA or OEM only.

that_kid wrote:
anton (staff) wrote:This is not exactly true... Linux actually has better network and storage stack (OK, from the performance point of view, I know a lot about internal design of both and NT architecture is definitely a winner). So StarWind running on the top of the Linux box actually shows 20-30% better results (mostly latency and I/O load) compared to the NT version USING THE SAME HARDWARE.
Did I miss something, is there a linux version of Starwind?

that_kid · Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:31 pm

Oh ok, you had me all excited for a second.

Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:37 pm

Why just for a second?

that_kid wrote:Oh ok, you had me all excited for a second.

JLaay · Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:49 am

Ok mr. "Virgin Islands"

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What do you mean by VSA and/or OEM?

Greetz Jaap

Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:21 am

VSA = Virtual Storage Appliance. Linux-based ESX/ESXi, Hyper-V and Xen pre-configured image you upload to your hypervisor and run to have stand-alone iSCSI target.

For OEM you can check Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_e ... nufacturer

In our case it's Linux-based flash USB dongle, CD or IDE flash disk with pre-loaded StarWind OEMs can put into their servers to have fully-functional iSCSI SAN solution.

Both versions are in pre-beta stage so we'll release them before summer 2010.

JLaay wrote:Ok mr. "Virgin Islands" ,

What do you mean by VSA and/or OEM?

Greetz Jaap

TomHelp4IT · Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:03 pm

I was talking about Openfiler on Linux compared to Starwind on Windows, on exactly the same hardware each time, I don't know a lot about Linux vs. Windows storage and network stacks so I'll take your word for it. Would suggest to me that Openfiler was the problem then, because it was definitely a lot slower than Starwind.

Wed Mar 03, 2010 2:08 pm

I did not say Openfiler was a problem...

TomHelp4IT wrote:I was talking about Openfiler on Linux compared to Starwind on Windows, on exactly the same hardware each time, I don't know a lot about Linux vs. Windows storage and network stacks so I'll take your word for it. Would suggest to me that Openfiler was the problem then, because it was definitely a lot slower than Starwind.