Every systems and storage administrator wants to protect one’s environment from Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities, which affect not only Windows PCs, but servers as well.
Most major vendors (Intel, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.) have published detailed information about the vulnerabilities and updates, which fix the issue. Other vendors also work on the issue resolution.
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Installation package of StarWind VSAN product offers a set of options to automate the installation process. It can be installed with command-line scripts and by means of Group Policy management in Windows Domain.
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This article provides solution to the problem with iSCSI targets getting into reconnecting state after installation of Windows updates.
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This article provides the guidance regarding MPIO installation/configuration.
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There are so many different possible options to install and configure StarWind. Let’s try to keep them all listed to pick up the best possible one for every single use case: Learn More
This article provides a solution to “kernel panic – not syncing: attempted to kill init!” error while botting a CentOS VM after V2V conversion to any non CentOS hypervisor using StarWind or any other V2V Converter.
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This article describes Log-Structured File System devices. It provides technical properties, requirements, limitations, features and benefits of the LSFS device, which should give the end-user necessary knowledge and understanding for its implementation into the system.
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This article explains the difference between 512 and 4096 bytes logical block size of StarWind device providing necessary information for the end-users to be able to properly choose logical block size depending on their current hardware and system configuration.
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This article provides step-by-step guidance on adding, changing and disabling L2 cache in different scenarios.
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This article provides a basic theoretical insight on L2 Flash cache usage, explains why L2 cache is needed.
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