Hi Bertram, Since you are planning to rebuild underlying storage only, the procedure is the following: - check if StarWind devices are synchronized; - move production environment to one host; - stop and disable StarWind service on the second host; - copy StarWind folders from the RAID array volume y...

Hi Ralf,
I have already sent you a reply.
Please share your results.

Hi Ralf,
Please check your email, I have already sent you the reply.

Hi batiati,
During benchmarking we did not face any issues with ReFS on Windows Server 2019, however, our QA team is still checking the stability of such setup to advise it for production.

Hi Ralf,
Could you please log a support case, using this link?
Please refer to this thread.

Unfortunately, it is not possible. The only way is to create a new device with the size required and move data from the old one.

Hi batiati,
Thank you for your detailed instructions.

Hi batiati, Thank you for your interest in StarWind solution and your comments regarding the article. As you might notice, in the described configuration each of 12 volumes owns by a separate node, thus the situation you have described was avoided during the test. Feel free to ask any other questions.

Hi Ashley, You can change disk type in StarWind. It can be done by adding "SolidStateDrive" parameter to device string in config file StarWind.cfg: Stop StarWind service on one node; Start WordPad with administrator privileges, open StarWind.cfg file, find <device... record by value of dev...

Hi Ashley,
StarWind supports TRIM/UNMAP commands.
Please try to upgrade your nodes to the latest StarWind build.

1. the raid/disk/volume that Starwinds is using for the san is 10TB. We can present 100% of that to VMware with no issues? Correct. 2. So VMware get 10TB, and we use the 20% rule for them.. so our max space to use = 8TB (for Virtual Hard drives). As I told you initially, it depends on your vendors ...

Clark, Since the VSAN is running on a WINDOWS 2016 Datacenter OS... would we not have to meeting the windows Requirements? Open space for repairs and such? I'm thinking windows throws warnings at 20%??? You are right for the disk where OS is installed. But you can use all space on the volume with St...

Hi Owen,
You are totally right with conclusions.
Thank you for the update

Hi Clark,
It really depends on the environment and hypervisor you are using. Please follow the recommendations that are given by the vendors you are using in our environment.

You can create your own VM and install StarWind VTL inside VM.