Anton, The numbers above relate to an issue I noticed with Thick vs. Thin provisioning not specifically SSD related. The first set I posted (earlier in the thread) are on the SSD. I did not initialize the SSD between uses. Just deleted the LUN and files then recreated them. The numbers directly abov...

I just wanted to provide a few comments on how Starwind might be able to improve its placement in the Enterprise Environment. Specifically what I'd like to see is ... Site Recovery Manager support: Specifically, Starwind needs to provide a SRM plug-in so array based replication is possible. Metrics:...

Just another vote for a personal license for home/lab use.

OK, here the Thick vs. Thin numbers. 1 TB Thick 4096 cache V8 Beta 3 Max_IOPs Date/Time Guest Workload Spec IOPS Read IOPS Write IOPS MBPS Read MBPS Write MBPS 2014-02-24_20:59:55 io-analyzer01 0.5k_100%Read_0%Random 7238.98 7238.98 0 3.53 3.53 0 2014-02-24_20:59:40 io-analyzer03 0.5k_100%Read_0%Ran...

I archived the results as part of my cleanup. It was getting hard to determine what was what for comparisons and I'll be honest I haven't read the entire VMware manual on how to restore the archives. I've only started adding descriptions so I could make better long term decisions. But here's a few s...

Hmm, I already posted the original log of the failed mount (second zip file). As for determining the sector size, do you have a specific command to run to determine that? Also, I am only using thick image files. I found the LSFS method to cause too much performance loss for the initial writes to be ...

Do you happen to have any Intel I/O Meter benchmarks for your storage setup? I have them archived, but didn't label them so it might be a bit difficult to dig out the right ones. I can provide the current stats for my current configuration using an Arcea 1261, 2 GB cache, 10 Seagate 7200 RPM SATA d...

The device is a SSD ( I think the page.block size is 8K), NTFS block size was 4K. When I cleaned it, as a raw disk it had no formated block size. Under ESXi it was formatted as VMFS 5 with a 1MB blocksize. I have it currently working as a NTFS disk with an imagefile. I only reported it as an error b...

Just an FYI regarding storage spaces ... I've done some testing using storage spaves vs the standard (Computer Manager) mirrored/striped options. What I found was the native method was always faster than storage spaces. This is without using flash based caching. I personally decided that storage spa...

For bit more clarification ... Initially I used Starwind to export a previously formatted disk using the Physical Disk (Disk Bridging method). That method failed to present the LUN to ESXi 5.5. After I took the disk offline, I was able to successfully use Starwind to export the disk (disk bridging),...

I did not write protect it. I mearly cleaned the disk to wipe all partitions and then exported the SSD. As for why I took it offline, wihtou the disk being offline Starwind would not successfully present it as a LUN. Starwind generated an error in the log. I'll post the original log with my initial ...

Disk Bridging Bug Report I was testing Beta 3 using VMware IO Analyzer and decided to test disk bridging on a Samsung 840 Pro series (512 GB) model. To create the disk bridge I performed the following steps: 1) Open Computer Manager to determine the disk ID. 2) Open a command prompt and run DiskPart...