I had doubts about need of ESXi reboot for refreshing device info.
It works with V8R4 from August 2016. We have checked with 3-node ESXi 6.5 cluster.
Option has been added to both StarWind HA nodes: edit StarWind.cfg, restart StarWind service, wait for HA sync, repeat for the second node.
Then all three EWXi nodes were restarted one-by one.
After storage resan ESXi showed disk type as Flash.
All this time test VM with test load remained functional.
Important remark: in case of HAImage device, we need to add the "SolidStateDrive" parameter to corresponding ImageFile device. This device is mentinoned in HAImage's "Storage" parameter, for example:
<device name="HAImage1" ... AluaNodeGroupStates="0,0"
Storage="imagefile2"/>
For this device we need to locate "imagefile2" in config file to add the parameter:
<device file="My Computer\D\img\Storage5\Storage5.img" name="imagefile2"
SolidStateDrive="1"/>
There is another method for marking storage as SSD on ESXi side:
https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/searc ... Id=2013188