Follow up, to the question, I asked, in April. (It's been a busy year!) The scenario, I asked about, was "Compute and Storage Separated", with the "compute" side (a 2 node Hyper-V cluster) accessing the "storage" side (a 2 node StarWind Virtual SAN Free cluster), via iS...

"Configuring HA File Server for SMB NAS", is recommended, for use with the Free License, at the end of the "StarWind Virtual SAN Free Getting Started" guide. I had no problems, building a test environment, following the steps in "Configuring HA File Server for SMB NAS",...