Hi,
I looked into StarWind VSA, but discarded the idea since it required a windows machine to run it.
Then today I found out that there is a linux version of it - great I thought - so I proceeded to download the VSA and installed it in vsphere.
I was poking around on the linux machine that it runs on and guess what ps aux showed me:
Suffice to say I was surprised
Lets just say I will not be running their Linux version after all - I mean virtualized storage is one thing, but virtualized storage running in a virtualized layer on top of a VM, that is just crazy.
Perhaps one day if they create a real linux binary I will take a look at it again.
I don't know if this is common knowlede, but I certainly did not know they were running their windows binary on Wine
I looked into StarWind VSA, but discarded the idea since it required a windows machine to run it.
Then today I found out that there is a linux version of it - great I thought - so I proceeded to download the VSA and installed it in vsphere.
I was poking around on the linux machine that it runs on and guess what ps aux showed me:
Code:
root 2020 0.0 0.0 127872 1268 ? Ss 22:05 0:00 SCREEN -dmS StarWindVSA /bin/bash -c WINEDEBUG=-all WINEPREFIX=/opt/StarWind/StarWindVSA /usr/bin/wine64 StarWindService.exe --console -o -lpStarWindVSA
root 2022 0.0 0.0 115408 1476 ? S 22:05 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/logwatcher /var/StarWind/StarWindVSA/events/StarWindVSA-Events.log
root 2023 0.6 0.3 2213912 30596 pts/0 Ssl+ 22:05 0:00 StarWindService.exe --console -o -lpStarWindVSA
root 2029 0.8 0.0 17760 6088 ? Ss 22:05 0:00 /usr/bin/wineserver
root 2035 0.0 0.0 2069596 3424 ? Ssl 22:05 0:00 C:\windows\system32\services.exe
root 2038 0.0 0.0 2055580 5528 ? Sl 22:05 0:00 C:\windows\system32\winedevice.exe
root 2040 0.0 0.0 1920280 7132 pts/0 Sl+ 22:05 0:00 C:\windows\system32\explorer.exe /desktop
root 2047 0.2 0.0 451592 6820 ? Ssl 22:05 0:00 /usr/libexec/udisks2/udisksd
root 2054 0.0 0.0 1938272 2924 ? Sl 22:05 0:00 C:\windows\system32\plugplay.exe
root 2062 0.3 0.0 2043496 5756 ? Sl 22:05 0:00 C:\windows\system32\winedevice.exe
root 2146 0.0 0.0 6524 652 ? S 22:05 0:00 inotifywait -q --format %e /var/StarWind/StarWindVSA/events/StarWindVSA-Events.log
root 2147 0.0 0.0 115408 404 ? S 22:05 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/logwatcher /var/StarWind/StarWindVSA/events/StarWindVSA-Events.log
root 2157 0.1 0.0 163596 6192 ? Ss 22:05 0:00 sshd: admin [priv]
Lets just say I will not be running their Linux version after all - I mean virtualized storage is one thing, but virtualized storage running in a virtualized layer on top of a VM, that is just crazy.
Perhaps one day if they create a real linux binary I will take a look at it again.
I don't know if this is common knowlede, but I certainly did not know they were running their windows binary on Wine