Everything happens for a reason. People must realize the cause of sanctions and stop the war.

Unfortunately, in Russia it is currently impossible to buy vmware.

I am curious, what happened in Russia?

Hello Steve, Thank you for your interest in StarWind products. Could you please clarify how exactly you are connecting the target with a non-replicated cache-less device in the ISCSI initiator (number of sessions, MPIO policy)? Could you please double-check that Windows defender or any other antivir...

Hello myrandor,
It was suggested to assign disks to VM as RDM instead of pass-through the controller. Please let us know if it helps.

Please contact support for a configuration review. In most cases, the cluster enters into a split-brain state when nodes cannot send heartbeats to each other. Because of that, Microsoft recommends establishing redundant links for a cluster communication. If you are talking about a possible split-bra...

Hello Nicholas,
Please consider updating StarWind VSAN which is described here: https://knowledgebase.starwindsoftware. ... d-version/

Hello myrandor,
Thank you for your input in improving our products. I will forward your findings to the responsible teams.

Hello everyone, the fix shoudl be present in the build 13861.

Hello,
The tests went fine, however, I would suggest using NTFS as ReFS could have some possible issues.

Hello mvalpreda,
There is no difference in performance between trial and free version.
Could you please log a support case here to check that issue: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/support-form
Thank you!

Hello MohamadB, Thank you for your interest in StarWind products. To configure the setup, please follow this guide: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resource-library/starwind-virtual-san-hyperconverged-2-node-scenario-with-vmware-vsphere-6-5/ Please note the following: - SSD and HDD RAID settings: h...

Hello mafigo74,
2 segregated interfaces for StarWind VSAN should be enough. Since you are using the trial version, I would recommend contacting your account manager and schedule a remote session with our engineers to review the configuration and apply the best settings - it's free of charge!

mahuan1688, The documentation will be available shortly on our website, however, you can use the command below to create the disk: vdo create --name=vdo_dedup --device=/dev/disk/by-id/%DRIVE_ID% --emulate512=enabled --vdoSlabSize=2G --sparseIndex=enabled --activate=enabled --indexMem=0.25 --blockMap...

MBerthe,
Null characters were added there intentionally and are not going to be removed.
You can remove them if you want but we do not recommend doing it for proper program work.

Update for the community: Important news first - the data is available now! We found out that the problem is not related to StarWind. Disk became RAW because the cluster service stopped and was unable to start due to the DNS server absence. When cluster service is not running, the operating system i...