Hey PoSaP! Thanks for your reply. I actually know that article already. I did a lot of research on that topic , and I still think Starwind is a "competitor" to S2D that has to be taken very seriously. If you read more posts in this blog you will discover that Starwind is able to achieve mo...

Hi there! It´s been a while. :oops: I`ve been running a Hyperconverged Cluster based on 2012r2 and Starwind for the last 5 Years. (And its still up!) First of all: Thanks a lot for the great software! Now I am building a new lab and I am looking for some design tipps :) My old Lab lacks of RAM, and ...

Hi there! At first: Thanks again for this great Software, I love it and what it enables me to squeeze out of my hardware! I have a "question" (maybe its more of a long story with a couple of things I didn't fully understand): I am wondering about Access-Rights for my 2-node hyperconverged ...

Hi there! Thanks for your reply. I've also added the rule for the synchronization manually, initial synch works without problems with those rules. I just wanted to report that the second rule isn't generated automatically on the second node. (on the first node the rule gets created automatically) Ki...

Hi there! Thanks for your reply! I manually changed the access policy to deny everything . Thats how i configure firewalls... and how I thought to configure Starwind. Block everything, allow only initiators / IPs that are needed on interfaces that are needed to targets that are needed. Lets ask the ...

Hi there,
I'm not sure if it helps, but:
If I create a non-ha storage on one of the two nodes the cluster validation test performs great.
So i think we can narrow it down to mpio / ha-storage.
Kind regards!

Hi there, it may be that I've found a bug in the latest V8. If i create a HA Device manually: 1. Create Storage on clusternode1: "add device (advanced)"-> "Hard Disk Device" -> "Virtual Disk" -> "My Computer\D\iSCSI_Backstores\Storage1.swdsk", 1GB, 512 b secto...

*push* I'm trying to get this "solution" running since 7 days. If there is any obvious thing I did wrong, it would be great if someone could tell me. I sent you the logs via e-mail and didn't get any response to that so far. I'm wondering if its a complex thing, or if you are too busy or a...

Hi there, this question is pretty simple. There is nothing running apart from starwind. I've installed drivers for the hardware, and maybe the drivers for the Brocade 1020 got something to do with it. (CNA magic stuff) But there is nothing else running on those hosts. Thanks for your time! Kind rega...

:) Yes, this makes perfect sense. I thought HB might be something trivial like ICMP, and Sync something... i don't know... "magical" :roll: follow up question: The initiator iqn contains an IP from a subnet that shouldn't be used for sync, but for HB. Does this play a role here? (meaning d...

, I'm sorry.
I got confused with the nicknames. Alex got the mail with the logfiles, should I send them to you also?

Hi there, i've made a couple of additional screenshots to make clear what i'm trying. Anatoly, I've mailed you the logfiles for this configuration(together with the cluster validation test results) from both clusternodes two days ago, did you recieve them? (be aware, the Subnets differ as I don't po...

Hi there, I've got a question about the listed iSCSI Initiator connections for a clustered storage. I've noticed that i've got 3 additional connections on every target on both clusternodes coming from "iqn.2008-08.com.starwindsoftware:..." on node1 they are from node2 and vice versa. (Thei...

Hi there, thanks for your time answering my questions, I'm very happy about that! I've got a follow up question about point 5: I thought it may be possible to use one of the 10gbit connections (point 2 point) using the setup i've described with the drawing. Currently I'm using the Sync Network for t...

Maybe I'm doing something wrong here. I don't got any experience with MPIO. Here is what i did: (btw. happened on 4 nodes: old testing lab, also in the rebuilt testing lab) Clustered Storage was already configured and is waiting to be used by the initiators. AFTER connecting the iscsi targets via th...