Anton, this has worked wonders thankyou for taking this on board.

I created 2 x 10GB on my test box and wiped, added some data, rebooted... Mirrors reconnected.

Gave it a good thrashing afterwards and alls well

OK thanks, shall do

You need change management

Saying that, I don't even like change management

Will starwind use virtual memory for cache when it runs out of conventional memory? e.g. 3 targets using 2 GB cache on a machine with only 3 GB RAM. I have seen it allocate 2GB for the first target but not for the other 2 targets... even though virtual memory should make this possible? Might sound a...

Anatoly, I've been running free edition on w7 for some time now, both on my laptop and my ML115 G5 opteron!

Make sure your firewall settings on windows are laxed for the Starwind ports / service.

W7 FW can be a pain, and the network location is worth looking at as well, should be home/work and not public.

Are you using a single target for both hosts to access at the same time? Obviously this would have the cluster option set on it, if so.

Their free initiator only has the features there to fit in with the rest of the stuff that's built into windows server, RADIUS, IPSec, iSNS, mount points, CS Vols, MPIO (for the cluster network). When it comes to doing anything out of the ordinary, as usual, you have to look elsewhere! You should ta...

The starwind one is better in general! Supports RAID 0/1 & JBOD over iSCSI - something you can't get away with doing using dynamic disks in windows.

Although the windows client does have full MPIO support and integrates well with WSCS!

Hey nice one for that, nobody else has been whinging about it and I thought it was likely just me!

Thanks for that, just what I was expecting to hear if I was wrong about the "application" being higher level. I will do some tests with SQL and report back, in any case I think that the stripe/AU size (or a multiple of) will be best. I'm not using RAID at the moment but I will be placing a...

Hi folks, couldnt' find any posts relating to this so perhaps this will be an interesting one... when creating a new disk in starwind, specifying number of sectors per block ... According to this : http://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-help/index.html?specifyparameterscdpnew.htm "The Number ...

Thanks

Hi Anatoly, yes it's after I have added the mirror using your iSCSI initiator, when viewing preferences for the item it's greyed out.

Also, I have checked application prefs, on the mirror tab, automount is checked and the control is enabled. But it does not automount.

Cheers

Guys, I have tried and tried different things to get this working. This check box is currently greyed out on W2K8, W2K3 and Win7 for an iSCSI mirror device (both devices remote) There seems to be no workaround to get the devices, whether simple/dynamic, to auto-mount on system startup or even get th...