StarWind NVMEof Initiator

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gerby

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Has anyone used it? Any thoughts? I'm looking to try it out in my home lab; everything is connected up with CX4-LXs and I've proved out NVMEof with zvol backing from a Linux guest but now I'd like to add some physical windows boxes with targets on my storage infrastructure.

Other notes: they don't accept "free" email providers like gmail for the free download and I'm leery of mixing work and personal communications I suppose I'll need to email sales or spin up a domain?
 

LaMerk

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I used NVMe-of initiator to connect PureStorage targets. It works, the IOPS is significant better compared to iSCSI. The interface might be confusing, because Windows shows NVMe-Targets as iSCSI-Targets in Initiator, but it doesn’t affect the performance. Multipathing , TCP, RDMA are supported (I used RDMA only). I think only Starwind has solution, which allows NVMe-of in Windows. By the way what NVMe-of target do you use?

Regarding downloading – it will be easier to connect sales person or support. I used my corp e-mail, that’s why the were no issues.
 
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