Guys I reaslised I hadn't replied to this....and I have been using StarWind for a while. Why did I buy Starwind? Becasue it was an excellent product at an excellent price. I had bumped into it a while ago (back in the very early days) and when I needed a vSAN in this job StarWind sprang back to mind...

Hi Yaroslav,

New license key applied. All appears well.

Thanks as always to the Starwind team - great product and great service.

B.

Hi Yaroslav, I will send the screenshots by email to support@starwind.com For anyone else who is interested... UI Screenshots show that on the 8.0.0.12585 node heartbeat and sync channels are down and csv1 is not synchronised. Physical network connections are OK (ping between nodes works fine). iSCS...

A little more information: The upgraded host iSCSI initiator shows the local connections to the csv and witness as "reconnecting" The connection to the CSV via the other cluser host is "connected" In loghtof this, would the solution be to disconnect the existing sessions and disc...

Guys, I have a 2 node cluster using Starwind vSAN Free to provide the CSV. Its been in and working largely without problem since 2018 - version 8.0.0.12585 I have a short maintenance window so I have started the upgrade process. 1. Migrated all roles to one node 2. Wait for Syncronisation to be comp...

Hi Not having updated the Cluster OS since its install (why break something when it works?) I find that Windows Server 2016 is reaching the point at which an upgrade to 2019 is called for. I KNOW Microsoft do not recommend in place upgrades for Server OS, however it does work (mentioned in at least ...

Thanks Yaroslav,

Now just got to find a time that I can do the upgrade

Ben

>>Most likely you were hit by the issue with trail license expiration check..... For now the workaround is to downgrade to build 12767 or 12658 depending on which of them you used before the update. Using VSAN Free... Is this bug now fixed? I really don't want to update and find that it isn't!

To wrap up the thread... I noticed a couple of gotchas.... 1. using powershell/StarwindX to put the HA images in maintenance mode - message received that there were still clients connected to the devices, which, I guess, there were in that the stopped cluster iSCSI had connections to the drive. So j...

Yaroslav Great thanks for that.... So now the sequence is:- Gracefully shut down all guests stop the cluster Put Starwind in Maintenance Mode - using example starwindX\powershell\MaintenanceMode.ps1 as a starting point. Shut down cluster nodes power off <wait for power company to do their thing> Pow...

Guys, Unbelievably, the power company has given us notice of power interruption. I know we should have UPS to cover this but we don't, so I will be shutting down the cluster & the hosts in advance and restarting after the power interruption. Am I right in thinking that if I stop the cluster usin...

Yaroslav Thanks for the guide. Starwind brought the CSV up and started synchronizing on its own after i installed the old version of SW on the hosts - I have not (yet) marked anything as synchronised manually. The host that has the older data I have kept paused in the cluster. I have moved roles bac...

Ok that seems to have worked - up to a point. The CSV has come back - its Synchronising. Can I bring roles back online on the node with the up to date data? The Witness hasn't survived - both nodes say device is not synchronised. Do I force it synchronised (on the host which has the most recent CSV,...

Hi Boris The zip files are where they were last time, would you like me to PM the link? Also - to down grade to the previous version, I guess I just pause the node, don't try to drain the roles and then run the install as usual? I assume SW will sort out which drive has the latest data for Sync or d...

Ok - as soon as I can get my g-Drive back, they will be where they were last time!

Ben