Got it - I thought the same thing. So I scratched my entire setup and rebuilt it with your suggested setup below and it works now. I think I know why it wasn't working for me so my first question.. On the guide, page 5, it shows a virtual NIC with no physical adapters bound to it - what is that for?...

I resolved the ping timeout issue in my last post by removing the virtual VMkernal iSCSI network adapter from the virtual machine, and re-adding it as a VMXNET3 adapter. I no longer have any ping timeouts on the 172.16.127.* subnet. I still cannot add a device to the iSCSI target without first bindi...

Ok - Here's some additional information that I have overlooked. It's not very clearly defined either in the guide that I put a link to in my original post. Page 3 shows in the diagram that the 2 physical cables between ESXi hosts have 2 IP addresses in different subnets on them. When I originally cr...

I assume you can ping all the interfaces on all the systems for the vSAN and virtual Sync networks? Here is my list of IP addresses related to the vSAN targets. From SW1 which is hosted on ESXi 1, I can ping every IP address except for the iSCSI vSAN on ESXi 2 or the iSCSI vSAN on SW2. The same thi...

I'm trying to setup and configure the Starwind vSAN on an ESXi cluster following this technical whitepaper. http://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san-hyper-converged-2-node-cluster-vmware-vsphere My goal is to utilize the local storage that is on my ESXi hosts in a 2 node cluster, along w...

How can I change the jumbo frames on the WS side? I'd like to give that a shot before changing my infrastructure's MTU sizes. Since this is my production environment, I can't just change these MTU sizes on the fly for my VMkernels and SAN NIC's. According to VMware, I need to bring down my VM's befo...

Update. I worked with a VMware technician, and he showed me this article - so that explains the differences between my testing Windows 2003 vs. Windows 2008 at least at an operating system level. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=20...

Another update. On my ESXi host, I added more 2 VMkernels. I enabled jumbo frames 100.0.1.1, 100.0.2.1 are the IPs On my SAN, I added an image file, enabled jumbo frames on the network cards. I also added an Access Rights rule to prevent my main iSCSI network in the 10.0.0.x network from accessing t...

Just an update. I had a remote session with Max, and he created a RAM drive that performed at 1GB speeds (a little over 120MBps on ATTO) The next step i'll take in troubleshooting this is to build the network per the best practices guide found here (page 6) http://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-h...

Ok, so to update... I removed the 2 IP addresses of my partner SAN in the VMware iSCSI software initiator (removed from dynamic and static tabs) and rescanned. I ran ATTO and the WRITE results were identical, however the READ results were about 50% at 2048, 4096, and 8192 test results which is what ...

Attached are examples, one is a 2003 VM, the other is a 2008 VM. Both on the same host, same SAN. I have tried changing hosts, and SAN's, with no luck. I have 7 Windows 2008/2008 R2 VM's and all of them behave the same VMware has dismissed it as being an issue with ESXi and told me to contact my SAN...

I have not had much luck working with VMware thus far, they keep pointing me towards it being a SAN issue. The only things they have tested so far are moving it to local storage, which immediately improved the performance. The other thing they tried was changing the SCSI controller with no luck, and...

Just an update - i've tried a couple of things with no luck. Manually changed the SCSI controller of the Windows 2008 VM from LSI Logic Parallel to LSI Logic SAS (also tried using VMware Stand Alone converter to change it) Moving the VM to a new host, and a different SAN Moving the VM to a host that...

I am running StarWind version 6.0.4768

I'm currently working with VMware on this to troubleshoot the issue as well. They had me build up a new VM, with a different SCSI controller but that did not make it any better. 1. Operating system on servers participating in iSCSI SAN and client server OS The SAN's are running on Windows 2008 R2, I...