MPIO on Starwind Server Side

tthompson164 · Tue May 26, 2015 8:22 pm

I need to set up a single Starwind VSan. The Box has a management interface and 2 other interfaces I would like to use for storage I/O. Looks like I have to use MPIO which is unfamiliar to me, but I cannot find any Docs (that are clear to me) about how to do this. I am not replicating just want to expose two iSCSI storage connections from a single VSAN. Anybody familiar with this?
TY
TThompson

Wed May 27, 2015 11:52 am

Hi,

It is quite easy. MPIO ( Multipathing I/O feature) should be installed first

Run it and tick "add support for iSCSI devices"

In order to allow StarWind Virtual SAN to use the Loopback accelerator driver and access the local copy of the data faster you have to add a minor modification to the StarWind configuration file. Locate the configuration and open it using Notepad. The default path is: C:\Program Files\StarWind Software\StarWind\StarWind.cfg

Find the string «» and uncomment it (should look as follows: <iScsiDiscoveryListInterfaces value="1"/>). Save the changes and exit Notepad. Should there be any issues saving the document, launch Notepad with Administrator rights and then load the starwind.cfg file to do the modifications.

Finaly you can connect your target using both NICs

tthompson164 · Wed May 27, 2015 4:00 pm

So that is it for the server side? Just enable MPIO. What about the iSCSI initiator on the server?
Thanks, tthompson164

Thu May 28, 2015 10:17 am

iSCSI initiator is one of the tools, that is necessary to get StarWind VSAN working.

Please visit our resource library https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resour ... ry?type=tp

The following contains the guidelines that may be helpful for you:
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/quick- ... irtual-san
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwi ... stallation
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwi ... -v-cluster