Moving from MS iSCSI Target (.vhdx) to StarWind

[gman42]

Hi. We're looking into moving to StarWind Virtual SAN (or at least testing it out) as a replacement for Microsoft's iSCSI Target in Server 2012R2. One question, so we can decide how to deploy it:

In Server 2012R2 the iSCSI drive is mounted as a .vhdx file. Will Starwind recognize this and let me use the existing file? Or does it use only its own native format, which I assume would mean I need enough extra disk space (which I don't have right now) to copy over the contents of the existing one?

Thanks in advance.

[Vladislav (Staff)]

Hi gman,

StarWind Virtual SAN uses its own format for iSCSI devices consisting of two files *.img and *.swdsk. However, you can start with a minimal size of initial StarWind storage and extend it as soon as you need to or if additional free space arrives. A step-by-step extending of StarWind storage and moving your data into it is also possible I believe.