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by rilliam
Tue May 13, 2008 3:59 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: How to configure *W for VMware ESX HA
Replies: 8
Views: 7860

ESX HA and Starwind

I am very interested in this, has anyone attempted it?

If I don't get a reply today I will try and post my results.
by rilliam
Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:36 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: using smb / cifs / mapped drives
Replies: 1
Views: 2910

using smb / cifs / mapped drives

I have a sabio CM4 (NAS box with embedded linux) and I would really like to use this device as my storage device and have iscsi connections to it.

Is it possible to have StarWind store data to a shared / mapped network drive?
by rilliam
Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:56 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: ibvm snapshot file size and frequency waste disk space
Replies: 1
Views: 3626

ibvm snapshot file size and frequency waste disk space

We are storing an sql db on a iscsi mounted volume and even when there are very minor changes or none at all I have noticed that a new snapshot file is created as I told it to every 2 hours. This is fine, but why is the size always atleast ~100MB? At 1.2GB a day this seems to be a waste. I guess I c...
by rilliam
Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:25 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: Snapshot rollback
Replies: 9
Views: 10060

=)

"cough...duh." = I was wrong. You are right.
by rilliam
Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:06 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: delayed volume mirror
Replies: 3
Views: 5025

command line

I can't recall why I beleived there was command line tools that were by email request only. Is this not the case?
by rilliam
Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:54 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: licensing behavior
Replies: 5
Views: 6425

logs

I beleive the problem is related to sid's. The two machines are based from the same virtual machine and for some reason vmware is not prompting me to create new sids. These two machines are not part of a domain and I noticed there were items in the event log related forced network elections. The com...
by rilliam
Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:44 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: Snapshot rollback
Replies: 9
Views: 10060

more questions

I have gone through the directions you have given and have found they don't work. Maybe I am doing something wrong but I will detail my results. Restoring Individual Files: Step 4: Snapshots are not listed in the "open image" dialog, only files of type ibv. If I specify the exact filename,...
by rilliam
Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:21 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: GMT in open image dialog
Replies: 1
Views: 3425

GMT in open image dialog

Is there a reason why snapshots are listed in GMT when cloning from an existing ibvolume? Its very confusing when you are trying to isolate the correct snapshot.
by rilliam
Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:37 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: delayed volume mirror
Replies: 3
Views: 5025

delayed volume mirror

I am storing an sql database on an iscsi volume. My understanding is that using ibvolumes I can make a snapshot of the volume at every specified amount of time. What I would like to do is also have a mirror of the volume that can be mounted that is 2 hours behind the original volume in a case where ...
by rilliam
Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:32 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: licensing behavior
Replies: 5
Views: 6425

appreciated

I appreciate that it is not correct licensing. The question was to verify if the software actively disables itself. For the sake of testing I wanted to replicate the exact configuration on both server, these are not production machines but only for testing. Next time I will use a test license; howev...
by rilliam
Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:29 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: licensing behavior
Replies: 5
Views: 6425

licensing behavior

We have purchased the professional version of starwind and I am testing it on two seperate machines. Just to verify, does starwind disable itself or fight for a license on the network if it sees another machine using the same license? The behavior I am getting is that on one machine the service will...
by rilliam
Tue May 29, 2007 9:33 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: Snapshot rollback
Replies: 9
Views: 10060

?

I don't know what "RO mode" is, can you expand on that? My goal is not to restore specific files only, I would like to roll the entire volume back. But even if I was doing one file, what does not make sense to me is how to specify what snapshot. As I recall the open dialog does not display...
by rilliam
Fri May 25, 2007 5:06 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free]
Topic: Snapshot rollback
Replies: 9
Views: 10060

Snapshot rollback

How do I rollbackup to a previous snapshot? Is that possible?