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    Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST

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    • QuixoticJeremyQ
      QuixoticJeremy @Stuka
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      @Stuka Thanks!

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      • ABykovskyiA
        ABykovskyi @scottalanmiller
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        @scottalanmiller said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

        @Reid-Cooper said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

        @ABykovskyi said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

        @Reid-Cooper said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

        I guess I'm early and get to kick things off. The Linux VSA on KVM, is there some recommendations around underlying filesystems, tuning guides, performance info? Anything like that yet?

        Hello @Reid-Cooper! Thank you for attending! There are no specific recommendations on filesystems. You can put StarWind VSA VM on EXT4 volume and get the work started.

        As for the tuning guides and performance info, they would be available as soon it will leave pre-release state. With current version of the VSA we show that we are working in the Linux direction.

        Thanks. Seems like XFS would be the more obvious choice?

        I would assume so, especially with the recent Phoronix benchmarks in the 4.11 kernel series.

        Scott is on point, XFS would be the best option.

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        • LaMerkL
          LaMerk Vendor @scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          @scottalanmiller said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

          @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

          Will we be able to manage all of the Starwind VSA products from the Windows Powershell? Or Is the PowerShell module only made to work on Windows Starwind setups?

          Or even better, what about a non-PowerShell interface for the others?

          We're currently working on adding a support of Swordfish API. StarWind Swordfish plugin should be released shortly, so please stay tuned!

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          • dafyreD
            dafyre
            last edited by

            Is the Two-Node setup for Starwind an Active/Active setup or active/passive?

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            • TheDeepStorageT
              TheDeepStorage Vendor @dafyre
              last edited by

              @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

              Is the Two-Node setup for Starwind an Active/Active setup or active/passive?

              StarWind's two-node setup is an active-active scenario.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @LaMerk
                last edited by

                @LaMerk said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                @scottalanmiller said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                Will we be able to manage all of the Starwind VSA products from the Windows Powershell? Or Is the PowerShell module only made to work on Windows Starwind setups?

                Or even better, what about a non-PowerShell interface for the others?

                We're currently working on adding a support of Swordfish API. StarWind Swordfish plugin should be released shortly, so please stay tuned!

                Cool.... https://www.snia.org/forums/smi/swordfish

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @TheDeepStorage
                  last edited by

                  @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                  @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                  Is the Two-Node setup for Starwind an Active/Active setup or active/passive?

                  StarWind's two-node setup is an active-active scenario.

                  More importantly, it's all active, regardless of size. So four nodes is active/active/active/active.

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403 @TheDeepStorage
                    last edited by DustinB3403

                    @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                    @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                    Is the Two-Node setup for Starwind an Active/Active setup or active/passive?

                    StarWind's two-node setup is an active-active scenario.

                    With this setup is there any risk of a split brain scenario occurring? If so what protections are built in to ensure that the system normalizes its self?

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                    • coliverC
                      coliver @scottalanmiller
                      last edited by

                      @scottalanmiller said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                      @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                      Will we be able to manage all of the Starwind VSA products from the Windows Powershell? Or Is the PowerShell module only made to work on Windows Starwind setups?

                      Or even better, what about a non-PowerShell interface for the others?

                      Is there a non-powershell interface for the Windows version?

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                      • DustinB3403D
                        DustinB3403 @coliver
                        last edited by

                        @coliver said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                        @scottalanmiller said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                        @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                        Will we be able to manage all of the Starwind VSA products from the Windows Powershell? Or Is the PowerShell module only made to work on Windows Starwind setups?

                        Or even better, what about a non-PowerShell interface for the others?

                        Is there a non-powershell interface for the Windows version?

                        Yes, the GUI 🙂

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                        • LaMerkL
                          LaMerk Vendor @DustinB3403
                          last edited by

                          @DustinB3403 said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                          @coliver said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                          @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                          Will we be able to manage all of the Starwind VSA products from the Windows Powershell? Or Is the PowerShell module only made to work on Windows Starwind setups?

                          Or even better, what about a non-PowerShell interface for the others?

                          Is there a non-powershell interface for the Windows version?

                          Yes, the GUI 🙂

                          We have a few options here: GUI, Web-GUI, Swordfish plugin (soon), SMI-S and VVols.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @coliver
                            last edited by

                            @coliver said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                            @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                            Will we be able to manage all of the Starwind VSA products from the Windows Powershell? Or Is the PowerShell module only made to work on Windows Starwind setups?

                            Or even better, what about a non-PowerShell interface for the others?

                            Is there a non-powershell interface for the Windows version?

                            If you are on the free version it is a GUI for 30 days. If you are on the paid version, it is a GUI for forever.

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                            • TheDeepStorageT
                              TheDeepStorage Vendor @DustinB3403
                              last edited by

                              @DustinB3403 said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                              @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                              @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                              Is the Two-Node setup for Starwind an Active/Active setup or active/passive?

                              StarWind's two-node setup is an active-active scenario.

                              With this setup is there any risk of a split brain scenario occurring? If so what protections are built in to ensure that the system normalizes it's self?

                              Instead of forcing people to use a 3rd host as withness we use a hearbeat channel (preferably set up on a separate physical NIC to avoid a SPOF) that constantly has the nodes pinging each other. This way if the synchronization channel fails the HA device that is second by priority will be disabled to avoid split-brain.

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                              • ABykovskyiA
                                ABykovskyi @travisdh1
                                last edited by

                                @travisdh1 said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                Apparently I'm going to be starting with the unusual questions. In your V2V Converter, you have the option to convert to Microsoft VHD, why the Microsoft VHD and not just VHD?

                                Thaks for great question. It should actually work with XEN as well.

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                                • coliverC
                                  coliver @TheDeepStorage
                                  last edited by

                                  @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                  @DustinB3403 said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                  @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                  @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                  Is the Two-Node setup for Starwind an Active/Active setup or active/passive?

                                  StarWind's two-node setup is an active-active scenario.

                                  With this setup is there any risk of a split brain scenario occurring? If so what protections are built in to ensure that the system normalizes it's self?

                                  Instead of forcing people to use a 3rd host as withness we use a hearbeat channel (preferably set up on a separate physical NIC to avoid a SPOF) that constantly has the nodes pinging each other. This way if the synchronization channel fails the HA device that is second by priority will be disabled to avoid split-brain.

                                  What if it fails due to the primary hosts failure? Sudden power outage etc. In a two node setup would both nodes then go down?

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                                  • DustinB3403D
                                    DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                    @coliver said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                    @scottalanmiller said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                    @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                    Will we be able to manage all of the Starwind VSA products from the Windows Powershell? Or Is the PowerShell module only made to work on Windows Starwind setups?

                                    Or even better, what about a non-PowerShell interface for the others?

                                    Is there a non-powershell interface for the Windows version?

                                    If you are on the free version it is a GUI for 30 days. If you are on the paid version, it is a GUI for forever (plus the option of Powershell).

                                    FTFY

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                                    • TheDeepStorageT
                                      TheDeepStorage Vendor @coliver
                                      last edited by

                                      @coliver said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                      @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                      @DustinB3403 said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                      @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                      @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                      Is the Two-Node setup for Starwind an Active/Active setup or active/passive?

                                      StarWind's two-node setup is an active-active scenario.

                                      With this setup is there any risk of a split brain scenario occurring? If so what protections are built in to ensure that the system normalizes it's self?

                                      Instead of forcing people to use a 3rd host as withness we use a hearbeat channel (preferably set up on a separate physical NIC to avoid a SPOF) that constantly has the nodes pinging each other. This way if the synchronization channel fails the HA device that is second by priority will be disabled to avoid split-brain.

                                      What if it fails due to the primary hosts failure? Sudden power outage etc. In a two node setup would both nodes then go down?

                                      Both hosts are constantly in sync,and each VM has access to it's virtual disk on both hosts. If one of the node fails, then the cluster just continues working if it's VMware FT or the VMs failover and everything continues working in case of Hyper-V or VMware HA.

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                                      • dafyreD
                                        dafyre @TheDeepStorage
                                        last edited by

                                        @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                        @coliver said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                        @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                        @DustinB3403 said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                        @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                        @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                        Is the Two-Node setup for Starwind an Active/Active setup or active/passive?

                                        StarWind's two-node setup is an active-active scenario.

                                        With this setup is there any risk of a split brain scenario occurring? If so what protections are built in to ensure that the system normalizes it's self?

                                        Instead of forcing people to use a 3rd host as withness we use a hearbeat channel (preferably set up on a separate physical NIC to avoid a SPOF) that constantly has the nodes pinging each other. This way if the synchronization channel fails the HA device that is second by priority will be disabled to avoid split-brain.

                                        What if it fails due to the primary hosts failure? Sudden power outage etc. In a two node setup would both nodes then go down?

                                        Both hosts are constantly in sync,and each VM has access to it's virtual disk on both hosts. If one of the node fails, then the cluster just continues working if it's VMware FT or the VMs failover and everything continues working in case of Hyper-V or VMware HA.

                                        How would we configure the iSCSI connection in Hyper-V for this? Using MPIO?

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                                        • TheDeepStorageT
                                          TheDeepStorage Vendor @ABykovskyi
                                          last edited by

                                          @ABykovskyi said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                          @travisdh1 said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                          Apparently I'm going to be starting with the unusual questions. In your V2V Converter, you have the option to convert to Microsoft VHD, why the Microsoft VHD and not just VHD?

                                          Thaks for great question. It should actually work with XEN as well.

                                          Looks like we'll have to double check this and then make some changes to the V2V to reflect it supports both.

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                                          • TheDeepStorageT
                                            TheDeepStorage Vendor @dafyre
                                            last edited by

                                            @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                            @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                            @coliver said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                            @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                            @DustinB3403 said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                            @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                            @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                            Is the Two-Node setup for Starwind an Active/Active setup or active/passive?

                                            StarWind's two-node setup is an active-active scenario.

                                            With this setup is there any risk of a split brain scenario occurring? If so what protections are built in to ensure that the system normalizes it's self?

                                            Instead of forcing people to use a 3rd host as withness we use a hearbeat channel (preferably set up on a separate physical NIC to avoid a SPOF) that constantly has the nodes pinging each other. This way if the synchronization channel fails the HA device that is second by priority will be disabled to avoid split-brain.

                                            What if it fails due to the primary hosts failure? Sudden power outage etc. In a two node setup would both nodes then go down?

                                            Both hosts are constantly in sync,and each VM has access to it's virtual disk on both hosts. If one of the node fails, then the cluster just continues working if it's VMware FT or the VMs failover and everything continues working in case of Hyper-V or VMware HA.

                                            How would we configure the iSCSI connection in Hyper-V for this? Using MPIO?

                                            Exactly. We actually have a lot of guidance to configuring MPIO properly on our webiste. Here is a Knowledge Base article with details: https://knowledgebase.starwindsoftware.com/guidance/how-to-configure-mpio-with-starwind-correctly/

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