yaroslav,

You might be right - I see block errors on the VSA. I'm trying to determine if this is within the VSA or the vmware SSD.

I'll keep you posted - thanks!

Jeff

Thanks yaroslav I don't think this is a storage issue. The VSA is running on an SSD inside the ESXi host. All the other VMs running on that SSD are fine. This only started happening after the networking issues. Maybe the image is damaged inside the VSA, but this would be self inflicted by the starwi...

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Thanks - I don't know why I had node majority and heartbeat mashed together in my mind

I guess I should ask this question: is a heartbeat interface necessary if the cluster is using a witness and the cache-mode is write-through? I'm trying to create a 2 node HA cluster with a witness. They should all be using heartbeat IPs. I'm using the free version so I'm limited to powershell. 1st ...

Thanks for the info. I just called the images master and partner like the powershell scripts :) Sounds like I will always have this sync issue during an outage of all nodes because of the write-back cache. As such, I created a 3 node cluster (2 active storage nodes and 1 witness) with write-through ...

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