Starwind vSAN Free - v8 Upgrade
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2022 9:13 am
Guys,
I have a 2 node cluster using Starwind vSAN Free to provide the CSV. Its been in and working largely without problem since 2018 - version 8.0.0.12585
I have a short maintenance window so I have started the upgrade process.
1. Migrated all roles to one node
2. Wait for Syncronisation to be complete (the cluster was quiescent for 4 days - no users at all, just background processes so not much data written to the csv at all)
3. Installed the new Startwind v8.0.0.<latest> on quiet node.
OK so this is where things go a little unexpected...
1. Installation process completes as expected.
2. Starwind console no longer works in read only mode (as it did previously; I am aware that I have the free license... the console used to work in RO mode after the 30 days) so getting status of the HA volumes is slightly more tricky (Powershell)
3. When I get the status of the Starwind HA volume it is worryingly unpopulated...
Obviously i need to make sure the device is OK and synchronising (I don't think it is at the moment as there is no disk activity and the device status indicates that it isn't syncing)
I don't want to break anything any further - so I haven't rebooted the node (I know that the windows standard response to a problem doesn't help in this instance).
I do have recent backups of the SW configuratuion files (it will take a while to get hold of them) and of course the other node is up anyway.
Everything is untouched.
Can anyone lend a hand?
Regards
I have a 2 node cluster using Starwind vSAN Free to provide the CSV. Its been in and working largely without problem since 2018 - version 8.0.0.12585
I have a short maintenance window so I have started the upgrade process.
1. Migrated all roles to one node
2. Wait for Syncronisation to be complete (the cluster was quiescent for 4 days - no users at all, just background processes so not much data written to the csv at all)
3. Installed the new Startwind v8.0.0.<latest> on quiet node.
OK so this is where things go a little unexpected...
1. Installation process completes as expected.
2. Starwind console no longer works in read only mode (as it did previously; I am aware that I have the free license... the console used to work in RO mode after the 30 days) so getting status of the HA volumes is slightly more tricky (Powershell)
3. When I get the status of the Starwind HA volume it is worryingly unpopulated...
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Name : HAImage2
DeviceType : HA Image
DeviceId : 0x0000021DC4C79300
File : My Computer\D\CSV1\CSV1_HA.swdsk
TargetName : iqn.2008-08.com.starwindsoftware:sl-hvbwac05.learning.local-csv1
TargetId : 0x0000021DC4CB5180
Size : 0
CacheMode : wt
CacheSize : 5120
CacheBlockExpiryPeriod : 5000
Exists : True
DeviceLUN :
IsSnapshotsSupported : False
Snapshots :
SectorSize :
State : 1
Parent :
Partners : System.__ComObject
SynchronizationChannels :
HeartbeatChannels :
SyncStatus :
SyncPercent :
IsWaitingAutosync : False
SyncTrafficShare :
NodeType : 0
FailoverStrategy : 0
MaintenanceMode : 0
I don't want to break anything any further - so I haven't rebooted the node (I know that the windows standard response to a problem doesn't help in this instance).
I do have recent backups of the SW configuratuion files (it will take a while to get hold of them) and of course the other node is up anyway.
Everything is untouched.
Can anyone lend a hand?
Regards