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by zxu
Sun Jul 08, 2018 3:03 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: Build 12166 Add-HADevice w/ 4096 sector size
Replies: 4
Views: 6624

Build 12166 Add-HADevice w/ 4096 sector size

After upgrading to build 12166, using PowerShell to create HA device fails with the provided sample script. The server is Windows 2016 with 4k native backend storage. $server = New-SWServer -host 172.17.62.11 -port 3261 -user root -password starwind $server.Connect() $firstNode = new-Object Node $fi...
by zxu
Wed Nov 15, 2017 10:45 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: PowerShell to create Image File Device with SWDSK Header
Replies: 7
Views: 9919

Re: PowerShell to create Image File Device with SWDSK Header

No issue with creating an image file via PS under a junction point other than the swdsk file is not generated. Via the GUI, if you create a new image file under a junction point (without attaching it to any target), this is where the issue is (if I remember correctly). It was a side discovery when d...
by zxu
Wed Nov 15, 2017 1:08 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: PowerShell to create Image File Device with SWDSK Header
Replies: 7
Views: 9919

Re: PowerShell to create Image File Device with SWDSK Header

You can produce the junction point like this... Assuming you have one system boot drive and a big RAID5 hosting your StarWind SWDSK. When you format the second RAID5 drive, instead of assigning it a drive letter (say D), you mount it under C:\starwind\raid5. C:\starwind\raid5 will be a junction poin...
by zxu
Tue Nov 14, 2017 5:57 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: PowerShell to create Image File Device with SWDSK Header
Replies: 7
Views: 9919

Re: PowerShell to create Image File Device with SWDSK Header

It creates the img file without swdsk. I am running the latest version of SW under Win2016. I have also noticed that if the path to the image file contains mounted volume junction, StarWindX FileBrowser can not handle junction points and will start throwing errors in the SW server log. If you use th...
by zxu
Mon Nov 13, 2017 3:07 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: PowerShell to create Image File Device with SWDSK Header
Replies: 7
Views: 9919

PowerShell to create Image File Device with SWDSK Header

I am trying out the SSD L2 cache with HA devices. In order to add the L2, I need to create the cache device with a swdsk header file. I looked all the PS examples and was not able produce the swdsk header file with New-ImageFile and then Add-ImageDevice. What is the proper way to create the image fi...
by zxu
Fri Aug 18, 2017 4:24 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: PowerShell Specify L2 Cache Setting
Replies: 3
Views: 8724

Re: PowerShell Specify L2 Cache Setting

Thanks! Can you use Add-DDDevice to add HA LSFS? The Create-HALSFS is using Add-HADevice. I don't see DeduplicationEnabled an option in Add-HADevice. Is this an undocumented option in Add-HADevice?
by zxu
Fri Aug 18, 2017 1:54 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: PowerShell Specify L2 Cache Setting
Replies: 3
Views: 8724

PowerShell Specify L2 Cache Setting

Is there a way to specify L2 cache setting/path when creating a device (either local or HA, disk in WT mode with L2 or LSFS)? Additionally, how to turn on dedupe on/off when creating HA-LSFS? There seems to be some disparity between what can be done via PowerShell vs GUI.