Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2
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@Romo said in Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2:
@FATeknollogee said in Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2:
Paging @KOOLER Will the performance of the appliances be as good or better than the native windows install?
It must be at least as good, why release an inferior product.
Much lower cost. And the lower cost all comes from external parties, so more money to spend on Starwind!
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@FATeknollogee said in Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2:
Paging @KOOLER Will the performance of the appliances be as good or better than the native windows install?
Native implementations, especially ones written with a modern CPUs in mind (user-mode, polling instead of an interrupt-driven I/O, think about Intel SPDK/DPDK) will be faster to anything running inside a VM. There are some ways to "fix" this by SR-IOV network and storage hardware (RDMA-capable NICs and NVMe) right into "controller" VM but hardware partners we're working with (mellanox) have some issues with RDMA inside a VMs so FOR NOW native implementation is going to be faster.
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@Romo said in Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2:
@FATeknollogee said in Installing a Starwind SAN on Windows Server 2012 R2:
Paging @KOOLER Will the performance of the appliances be as good or better than the native windows install?
It must be at least as good, why release an inferior product.
Nissan has GT-R cracking 0-100 in sub 3 seconds but it doesn't mean Nissan Altima doing same 0-100 in low 10s suck
Every product has own target niche.
