StarWind Software

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.

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.