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by bweeks
Thu May 24, 2012 1:41 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: Invalid storage selected!
Replies: 13
Views: 7707

Re: Invalid storage selected!

OK so I have got the array to the point where I am able to browse the datastore and as such remove the virtual machines. I acheived it as follows: I have a server with 6x300GB 15k SAS drives configured as a single RAID5 volume I installed windows on this and partitioned it with 50GB for the OS C Dri...
by bweeks
Thu May 24, 2012 7:16 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: Invalid storage selected!
Replies: 13
Views: 7707

Re: Invalid storage selected!

Hi there I would be interested if you have found a resoloution to this. The underlying NTFS partition on my Starwind device filled up yesterday and the Starwind partition becaome unavailable to ESXi. So far I have been unable to recover this. The the datastore is unavailable I am unable to browse it...
by bweeks
Tue May 08, 2012 9:01 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: Unable to mount VMFS partition
Replies: 9
Views: 11753

Re: Unable to mount VMFS partition

Hi Anatoly

Do you have any instructions for performing the upgrade to the latest version?
The event happened around the 25th April

Regards

Barry
by bweeks
Wed May 02, 2012 3:29 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: Unable to mount VMFS partition
Replies: 9
Views: 11753

Re: Unable to mount VMFS partition

Hi there and thanks for the response.
We are running an evaluation so are just using the free version at the moment.
The version number is 5.8.1889 and the plugins all report version 5.8
We created a dedupe disk 1.4TB big
This was formatted in ESXi as VMFS 5
I have emailed the log file as requested.
by bweeks
Wed May 02, 2012 10:35 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: Unable to mount VMFS partition
Replies: 9
Views: 11753

Unable to mount VMFS partition

We are currently trialing the StarWind product in our lab environment. We have it running in standalone mode on two Dell servers. Just last week one of the datastores went offline and now we are unable to remount it. ESXi discovers it but when trying to mount it only offers the option to format it. ...