Well,THAT was interesting... It looks to me that, in a (Server 2016) two-host cluster, if I stop the StarWind VSAN service on one host, it automatically stops that service in the other host as well! Am i imagining things? Kind of makes me wonder how we are supposed to proceed, if we want to keep the...

It doesn't feel like we're talking about the same things, Boris. Terms like "volume" and "device" seem to have multiple meanings. And I'm afraid you lost me when you said: Under data migration I meant creating a new device on server 2 (if we assume server 2 was faulty), connectin...

Thank you Boris. I do get that there's nothing we can do to make the sync itself run faster. I was looking for a way to speed up the preceding manual copy, i.e. how faithful does that copy have to be, before sync will start? I gather it's not enough to simply recreate the partition and empty folders...

Thank you very much Boris, that's what I needed to know!

-- Ken

What is the "StarWind Cluster Service"? Does it have any value in a hyper-converged Hyper-V based VSAN environment with Microsoft Failover clusters? Is it documented anywhere? I'm getting warnings in Windows Server Manager that the StarWind Cluster Service has stopped. From what I can see,...

BTW, this very simple powershell script lists all status info on all local StarWind devices, no editing required. Import-Module StarWindX $server = New-SWServer -host 127.0.0.1 -user root -password starwind -port 3261 $server.Connect() if ( $server.Connected ) { foreach($device in $server.Devices) {...

What the heck, let me try to respond to this. I'm not staff, just going through this sort of process myself, but I think I can help. 1. Can someone tell me what the StarWind Storage Appliance is for? StarWind creates a virtual version of a SAN or NAS shared storage device. This is real, and yes, it ...

Thanks Boris. Ah. OK, I get that. Hmm. Let me see if I understand what that means... When you say "migrate data from the old HA to the new one", I take that to mean something like cloning the host storage LUN, partition, whatever, to the new replacement for the failed storage. That doesn't...

Thank you Boris, but I'm not sure we're both talking about the same thing here. I asked about "how to recreate and re-synchronize replica images, in the case of a host or device failure ." In such an instance, the replacement storage would be completely blank: no partitions, nothing. And I...

Thank you Boris. That is a cute little hack, and I see how it works. And I appreciate your links to those documentation pages. I've been through them before, but I had another look. I rather enjoyed one on iSCSI vs SMB, but now I can't find it. Oh well. Re: your comment that "As for the absence...

Thanks Boris, As it happens, I spent some time writing an enhanced-reporting variation on the GetHASyncState.ps1 script just yesterday. But I'm a little bit confused. GetHASyncState.ps1 is quite the script. Despite its name, it really appears to do much more than get states (which could really throw...

I have a feeling I might be missing something... I can't find any PowerShell examples for how to recreate and resynchronize replica images, in the case of a host or device failure. Seems like it might be something like the Replication Manager "Add Replica" function, except that the replica...

Thank you very much Boris. I agree that the drive needs to be considered suspect. I will be checking it further, even though it is not currently showing any errors, and may replace it regardless. This might be a good opportunity to test StarWind image re-creation using PowerShell -- and a good reaso...

Ah. Excellent. Very clear, informative answers. Thank you!

-- Ken

Thank you Boris, I've checked the Windows System Event logs, and do confirm that those bad block errors did show up as recently as October 3rd (a week ago). Nothing since then. As I've had no other issues with the drives, and haven't made any drive-related changes, it's a bit of a mystery. FWIW, the...