All posts by this Michael Rakitin

Posted by Michael Rakitin on January 16, 2023
How to change Synchronization Journal settings for StarWind HA devices

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Posted by Michael Rakitin on June 22, 2022
How to update StarWind SAN & NAS, Core: StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN) V8 R12 to the R13 release

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Posted by Michael Rakitin on June 14, 2022
Changing, adding and disabling L1 cache – VSAN for vSphere

This article provides guidance on his article provides step-by-step guidance on changing and disabling L1 cache on the HA device on VSAN for vSphere.
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Posted by Michael Rakitin on July 26, 2021
How to move a Virtual Machine to Microsoft Failover Cluster

This article provides guidance about steps on how to move virtual machine files to the cluster storage and add the virtual machine to the cluster.
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Posted by Michael Rakitin on May 28, 2021
Minimize storage response time on ESXi when a partner server has gone offline unexpectedly

This article guides on how to minimize a delay in response time when a partner server has gone offline without proper shutdown and as a result speed up the failover process.
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Posted by Michael Rakitin on May 28, 2021
Collecting StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator logs

This article guides on how to collect the logs of StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator with DebugView.
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Posted by Michael Rakitin on May 28, 2020
StarWind VSAN for vSphere: changing Linux I/O scheduler to optimize storage performance

This article provides a step by step guidance for changing Linux I/O scheduler option and improving storage performance used by StarWind Virtual SAN service.
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Posted by Michael Rakitin on December 17, 2019
How to restart/shutdown servers with StarWind VSAN installed

This article describes the steps to restart or shutdown servers with StarWind VSAN installed to perform scheduled maintenance works (for installing software updates, hardware changes, servers relocation, etc.)
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Posted by Michael Rakitin on November 29, 2019
Automate moving tapes to free media pool in Veeam B&R

This article provides steps that need to be performed in order to automate moving tapes to the Free media pool in Veeam B&R Learn More

Posted by Michael Rakitin on September 30, 2019
Fixing reset to device error when running the LSI_SAS controller

This article provides steps that need to be performed in order to fix reset to device error when running the LSI_SAS controller.
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