Thank you very much, Yaroslav. I really appreciate your help, especially when you are so busy.
Re: Witness and Cluster Validation
The Witness drive on one host was online in disk management, and the other offline, exactly as normal, when the Cluster Validation checks were run. It also shows as online in the cluster management console. And note, the validation had no problem with the Witness disks -- in fact, the cluster management console shows the Witness drive online. It's just the CSV that's the problem.
Re: Interface configuration
I've gone through and removed DNS from all Ethernet interfaces except for the one interface on each host server that is connected externally through the network switch.
I double-checked all interfaces and see Jumbo Packets disabled on every one of them. I'm mystified as to where you saw that. Could you tell me where you saw it?
Re: Licenses
But I think you may have found the problem in the license issue in the log! It's puzzling because I get no warnings about that. I'm not exactly sure what StarWind calls the license I'm currently running. I don't see any way to confirm it in the StarWind Management Console "Register" section.
- My original license key is a LicenseType 5 (in the XML). It does not appear to be either free or trial, but its expiry date appears to be 3 years ago! I get a warning about it being expired now if I try to apply it. I originally installed the full version of StarWind a couple of years ago and let the GUI access expire.
- I have a LicenseType 18 key which has XML tags for Trial and Free. It cannot be used -- I get a message saying "Free License can't be used after Trial License installation.
- I have several Free keys, all LicenseType 22, which also cannot be used. I get the same message as for the Trial license (above). They contain tags for FreeLicense only.
This may have something to do with having to upgrade the StarWind software a couple of months ago.
So at this point, I'm unclear what sort of key I should ask for, but I'll give that a shot.
If I'm SOL, I'm going to have to know how to access the contents of the CSV volume with StarWind offline.
--- kenw