Configuring SMI-S Agent for SCVMM 2012

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gothicreader
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Sat Feb 08, 2014 2:39 pm

Hello,

I've installed the "free" version of Starwind for Hyper-V and installed the SMI-S Agent that supports SCVMM 2012 SP1, (StarWind_SMIS_1_00_3_beta).
I'm currently using this product to get me through my training for my certification with Microsoft Certified Solution Expert.
My environment consist of a domain controller, 3 hyperV hosts, SCVMM, and SAN server.
The SAN server is where I have the Starwin product installed, along with the agent.
My SAN server has 3 disks attached that will shared among my HyperV hosts.
I've created the SAN Devices in Starwind management console.
3 DeDuplicated Disks and 3 targets: tier1 (70GB) E: drive, tier2 (70GB) F: drive, and quorum (1GB) G: drive.
All HyperV hosts are connected via iSCSI to my targets.
If I view the StarWindSMISConfigurator file, I noticed the configuration is for Flat Image file and HA (see attached files), and only 2 concrete pools
Adding Starwind as one of my provider, it only shows 2 Pools (as denoted from the StarWindSMISConfigurator file), that don't correlate with my Device and targets, that I created.
I read through the instructions (Using SMI-S for Management Automation of StarWind iSCSI SAN V8 beta in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2, September 2013) to configure the StarWindSMISConfigurator, but this doesn't seem to work. I should be able to see 3 concrete pools for each of my targets.

Is the FREE version limited, thus the reason why it isn't working as it should?
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gothicreader
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Sat Feb 08, 2014 4:04 pm

:mrgreen:
Solved. I guess what I was seeing is correct, since in SCVMM creating a cluster did show all the drives as it should. DUH!!!
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Sat Feb 08, 2014 5:48 pm

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