Thanks for the info, I'll look more into ACL tonight. Just FYI, the CHAP config I copied from the trial license instance does indeed work on VSAN free. So whatever that encoding format is, seems to be portable and is honored by VSAN free. CHAP is kind of old, so the ACL config might be better going ...

Hmm not sure if I follow. I'm using PowerShell. So basically I'm doing this: $bytes = $utf8.GetBytes($password) # Returns byte array $hash = $md5.ComputeHash($bytes) # Returns byte array [Convert]::ToBase64String($hash) # returns string There isn't really an opportunity to convert any of this into h...

Hello! Been using VSAN Free and it's working great. I need to change the password for my CHAP authentication. I had successfully changed the admin password before by directly editing the starwind.cfg file using the BASE64 encoding of the MD5 hash as outlined in this topic: https://forums.starwindsof...

"Mutual" CHAP, not multiple. :-) The powershell script in that thread worked great for setting the admin CHAP. I'll deploy a trial to look at the configs for the CHAP side of the auth. Are the two places I need to look in the config the StarWind.cfg file and the .swdsk header file for the ...

Hello, now that my lab servers are successfully working, I want to lock down my VSAN infrastructure. The documentation seems to do a good job of discussing best practices from the GUI, but I can't find good information on how to do it from the command line or by editing the config files. Can somebod...

Got it working. For future reference for anybody else in this situation. Shut down node 2's storage. Added this section to the new node (example): <storage id="2" name="\\share\path\witness.dat" type="smb_witness"> <authentication type="basic"> <basic login=&q...

Looking at the hadisk config, the second node didn't take any of the file share witness config when I ran the "addpartner" script, so that would explain the issue! I'll need to compare the two files and make sure all the settings match...

Thanks! Maybe I'm misunderstanding the design, but a two node can be run this way, right? I'm using an SMB file witness share as the tie-breaker node for the cluster to given quorum, not the heartbeat interface strategy. I have four network connections for VSAN. Two are for sync and two are for data...

And Node 1 (for completeness) after reboot...

Screenshot of Node 2 while Node 1 is rebooting attached.

I got both nodes online, synced, everything seems to be working, but I'm running into an issue with the HA behaving as true HA. When Node 2 reboots, Node 1 detects the down server and storage still works, as a single node with node majority due to the SMB share witness. When Node 1 reboots, Node 2 s...

Fantastic! That is exactly what I was looking for.

How do I retrieve the health status of StarWind VSAN on a Windows server? Either PowerShell or C#. I just want to write a little script/tool to email me if there's a problem (warn/error in the console).

Thanks!

Oh thanks, good idea, I can create a two node from the start that way. I like that. So I basically...

Create HA with 2 nodes
Remove Node
(do stuff)
Add real second node later on

I'll play with this some in my lab.

Hello, I'm trying out StarWind VSAN Free. Done a bunch of reading but want to get clear on a point. I am building a Windows Failover Cluster that will use StarWind VSAN as the storage system. I want to start with a single node, to try it out. Then I want to bring a second node online later. It seems...