Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
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Category Archives: Starwind
Running a VM from a RAM Disk
Posted by on January 26, 2010
I posted earlier about some of my experiments with the FusionIO solid state storage card, SSD’s and the feature I spotted in Starwind to create a virtual disk from RAM – these are the quick results I see when running a Windows 2003 R2 virtual machine from a RAM disk. This is done by [...]
Share a RAM disk via iSCSI…run VM’s from it?
Posted by on January 25, 2010
I found this very clever feature in the StarWind vSAN product that allows you to allocate a chunk of physical memory on a host (i.e real RAM) and present it out as an iSCSI target – imagine the possibilities for running virtual machines from that? watch this space \
Nothing happens when I try to run Starwind software Manager on Windows 2008 R2
Posted by on January 24, 2010
I am doing some work with a FusionIO solid state flash storage card at the moment (more on this in a future post) as part of this I need a windows based iSCSI target for my testing, and rather handily you can download an evaluation copy of the Starwind Enterprise Edition from here I [...]
