StarWind Software

Likely I'm doing something that's obviously wrong, but I can't see it. I ran Starwind 4.1 quite a bit last year and got somewhat familiar with it -- this new version is quite different. Anyway, here's the story. On a Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V image, I have Starwind 5.4 (free) installed. I created a image file and loaded it. Everything looks like it's running fine, but when I go to the Windows Disk Management program and do a new scan, it doesn't see any new volume to initialize or format. Is there another step I need to take before it'll see it? I've tried rebooting to no avail.

There's nothing obviously special in the Windows Event Log, and from the Starwind log:

7/26 11:12:42.470 a94 S: SymId: 'ImageFile1': Assigned target name: 'iqn.2008-08.com.starwindsoftware:vp2k8r2c1.lab.net-serverdisk', alias 'serverdisk'
7/26 11:12:42.470 a94 IMG: SscPort_Create: Opening device 'ImageFile1', image file 'My Computer\C\Cluster\serverdisk.img', buffering=0, async=1, readonly=0.
7/26 11:12:42.470 a94 IMG: ImageFile_Create: 'C:\Cluster\serverdisk.img': type 0, geometry: sct 16, trks 32, cyl 4096, TotalSectors: 2097152
7/26 11:12:42.470 a94 IMG: ImageFile_Create: VendorId 'ROCKET ', ProductId 'IMAGEFILE ', Revision '0001', Serial 'B34C8B2A2816ABB5'
7/26 11:12:42.470 a94 Tgt: : parameter 'header', value '0'.
7/26 11:12:42.470 a94 Tgt: : parameter 'file', value 'My Computer\C\Cluster\serverdisk.img'.
7/26 11:12:42.470 a94 Tgt: : parameter 'buffering', value 'no'.
7/26 11:12:42.470 a94 Tgt: : parameter 'asyncmode', value 'yes'.
7/26 11:12:42.470 a94 Tgt: : parameter 'ImageSizeLow', value '1073741824'.
7/26 11:12:42.470 a94 Tgt: : parameter 'ImageSizeHigh', value '0'.
7/26 11:12:42.470 a94 Tgt: : parameter 'readonly', value 'no'.
7/26 11:12:42.470 a94 Tgt: : parameter 'CacheMode', value 'none'.
7/26 11:12:42.470 a94 Tgt: : parameter 'CacheSizeMB', value '0'.
7/26 11:12:42.470 a94 Tgt: : parameter 'CacheBlockExpiryPeriodMS', value '0'.
7/26 11:12:42.470 a94 S: iqn.2008-08.com.starwindsoftware:vp2k8r2c1.lab.net-serverdisk: 65536 session(s) allowed.
7/26 11:12:42.470 a94 conf: Target [0x000000000044E440] has been created. Device 'ImageFile1' is accessible as target 'iqn.2008-08.com.starwindsoftware:vp2k8r2c1.lab.net-serverdisk'.

Do you have ROCKET device visible at the client side in System -> Device Manager as a disk node?

Nope. Under Device Manager | HOSTNAME | Disk Drives, the only entry is "Virtual HD ATA Device". Doing a "Scan for hardware changes" operation doesn't result in anything new found.

OK, moving forward... Does iSCSI initiator show active connection to StarWind? What you see there?

covanent wrote:Nope. Under Device Manager | HOSTNAME | Disk Drives, the only entry is "Virtual HD ATA Device". Doing a "Scan for hardware changes" operation doesn't result in anything new found.

I have it figured out now -- as suspected, just missing an obvious step. I hadn't run the iSCSI Initiator yet, and once I did, everything fell into place. Thanks for the pointer.

Oh, c'mon

covanent wrote:I have it figured out now -- as suspected, just missing an obvious step. I hadn't run the iSCSI Initiator yet, and once I did, everything fell into place. Thanks for the pointer.