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Volodymyr Khrystenko
Volodymyr Khrystenko
StarWind Senior Software Development Engineer. Volodymyr specializes in virtualization, storage protocols, and networking. With exceptional experience in architecture planning and hardware sourcing, he provides technical leadership in infrastructure research and development. Volodymyr delivers expert guidance on optimizing storage systems and modern enterprise-scale IT architectures.
Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • May 14, 2025

DRBD/LINSTOR vs Ceph vs StarWind VSAN: Proxmox HCI Performance Comparison

Comparing HCI Storage Performance: DRBD/LINSTOR vs Ceph vs StarWind VSAN. Dive into a detailed performance comparison of DRBD/LINSTOR, Ceph, and StarWind VSAN on Proxmox VE.
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Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • January 30, 2025

Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D): Why Is East-West Network Traffic Much Higher Than Expected?

Why does a Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) cluster generate twice the network traffic during writes? We ran experiments to test it. Dive into the technical details in our latest article and understand how it might affect your infrastructure.
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Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • September 26, 2024

Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D): Is there any Data Locality?

Running your VMs on the right node in a Microsoft S2D cluster could be the key to unlocking better performance.
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Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • September 12, 2024

StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) vs Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), Part 2: Hyper-V HCI Performance Benchmarking (RDMA)

Discover how StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) and Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) stack up in real-world scenarios, check out the performance results, and see which one stands out in high-performance storage. 
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Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • August 22, 2024

StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) vs Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), Part 1: Hyper-V HCI Performance Benchmarking (TCP)

Explore a detailed performance comparison of Microsoft S2D and StarWind VSAN on Hyper-V. Check out the in-depth benchmark results. 
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Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • April 4, 2024

iSCSI vs NVMe-oF: Performance Comparison

Discover our latest SPDK iSCSI vs. NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) performance benchmarks, and understand which protocol excels in speed and efficiency for your specific use cases.
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Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • June 13, 2023

Linux NVMe-oF Initiator and StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator for Windows: Performance Comparison Part 2.1

Previously, we compared the performance of NVMe-oF Initiators for Linux and Windows. Time to try that again with an updated StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator for Windows.
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Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • July 20, 2022

StarWind SAN & NAS over Fibre Channel: MDRAID vs GRAID

The new build of StarWind SAN & NAS is already here! Installed on top of a dedicated storage node full of NVMe drives, it now can be accessed over FC (Fibre Channel). The best way to see how fast it can go is to test its performance using two different RAID5 arrays, such as MDRAID and GRAID.
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Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • Volodymyr Khrystenko
  • April 13, 2022

Benchmarking Backup Appliance with GRAID based on StarWind SAN & NAS

With NVMe SSDs quickly erupting as the desired storage standard, common RAID technology isn’t able to provide any longer. StarWind, being ahead of IT infrastructure trends, has already solved this bottleneck. Empowered with GRAID  SupremeRAID™, the world’s first NVMe-oF RAID card, and StarWind SAN&NAS SDS, StarWind Backup Appliance unleashes the entire potential of NVMe for both backup performance and backup data security.
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