Hi I've had some issues with power cuts and a failed UPS which forced my servers offline. I brought the first up and marked it as synced in order to start the VMs followed by the second server. After the bootup, the 2nd server took 8 hours to sync on 10gbe direct connection despite them both being t...

Hi I've got a lab setup which is housing some personal vms including email server, unfortunately I've had a couple of crashes due to extended power cuts while I was out and now both nodes will not connect to each other. I've reset each server, including the services but right now neither will work. ...

Would it be possible for this to be added to some form of improvement list? Would help with resyncs.

Hi Had an interesting issue last night with my UPS which knocked the home servers offline completely. Upon powering everything backup, SW vSAN went in to sync mode. Its been running for 20 minutes now and it still says 0% synced, which I get why... However I was wondering if it is possible to to mod...

Ok will do, glad to assist in making this software even better, its certainly working well for me!

Welcome. I would be happy to test but my test license expires in April so won't have console access.

Hi Boris Resolution: 2736 x 1824 Build: 11818 The issue is that via RDP to the VM, the console is all screwed like the image as the RDP session follows the resolution of the PC it is being accessed from. If I directly access the VM via the vCenter console then its perfectly fine as the VM desktop re...

Hello Just a quick one, my tablet has a high resolution and RDP'ing in to the VM that hosts a starwind installation causes the console to be screwed in terms of placement of text etc. Is the console High DPI aware? If you look at the screenshot I've attached, the menu in the middle is supposed to ha...

If a drive fails on a single host, then Starwind will move all operations to a single feed from the other working VM. Once you've replaced the failed drive, starwind will then sync from the remaining host to the new drive and then bringing it back online and usable. Starwind vSAN can be considered a...

Hi Posap So firstly I'm using VMWare ESXi 6.5 with vCenter 6.5 too, with Hyper-V its a little easier to get access to the drives but I prefer ESXi. To allow RDM access to the drives you either need an HBA that can act as a JBOD device, I use Dell H200s on my Dell R710s but a 9211-8i or similar flash...

So performance of the drives via RDM/Storage Spaces was fine and no issues. IO and IOPS seemed aligned with the speed of the drives, will no roll out a full cache + storage array and see how that will perform.

So I've now passed through the discs via RDM to the VMs. The SSD HA image synced at 3.9mbps which is pretty much the max speed of the SSD, so fine there. The HDD was setup in storage spaces with simple spaces setup and one drive. a 100gb image was then created on the new drive and was synced at 1.1g...

Hi Oleg Thanks for the reply. I'm used to running vmware vsan which worked well but required minimum of 3 hosts and my power bill wasn't liking that so needed to find an alternative. Presently I'm not running raid on these machines, I'm just testing with single drives and cache until I'm happy with ...

I'm going to document my testing in this thread now! So deleted the previous two images, created a new HA image @ 1.75TB with 90GB flash cache and it is now syncing at 900mbps ; much better than earlier! I deleted the second heartbeat only link and now running single 10gbe sync (plus heartbeat) and ...

So I wiped the image and started again. This time I IO tested the VMDKs and got a reasonable sequential speed close to what I was expecting for both the HDDs and the SSD. I've now created a 100GB image on the SSD and replicating to the other SSD... Windows is reporting 3.9Gbps via the 10gbe network ...