I disabled the service on Dec 28 and let the other node run for this production cluster. I started it again on Jan 14 and monitored the log. No more complains about underlying storage were observed, so I resumed Failover Cluster Node (Hyper-V) on this node. Kept monitoring the log since then, and th...

The server showed RAID card error, so I called server support to replace it and the cache battery. After replace, done extensive diagnostics on the hardware level including hard disk surface scan; and sfc and chkdsk (on the volume where Starwind image files reside) on OS level. All tests returns no ...

I installed VSAN on two-node Hyper-V HyperConverged setting back in 2015. It has been working well until recently (2 weeks) one of the nodes shows the warning message "Underlying device response time is longer than expected". It has caused one of the Hyper-V cluster node failed, some VM's ...

A late late reply... I'm happy to report here that my hyperconverged cluster has been running for 9 months un-interrupted. I've wrote a blog post to share my experience: http://setupwz.com/building-a-minimal-hyperconverged-server-cluster/ I know that StarWind continues to offer free 2-node hyperconv...

Having known that now the free edition can only be installed on VM, I wonder, desperately, if there's still any hope to run a two node Hyper-V failover cluster on two physical machines with it. Well, let me tell my story... Back in January, when I was looking for a minimal solution of Microsoft fail...