StarWind Software

Greetings,

I have a 4 node 2012 R2 Hyper-v cluster where I point my hyper-v VHD disks to an SMB3 share on a separate physical 2012 R2 file store. My storage server is a Dell server with PERC710P controller so I'm using direct attached storage on a single vdisk and no storage spaces. I have several terabytes of VHD's already on disk but want to add VSAN and then mirror to another VSAN server with similar configurations. How do I preserve the existing VHD's and add VSAN for mirroring? If there is a guide to this somewhere I'm not opposed to reading. I'm just trying to learn the product right now!

Thanks

To understand the basics of the product, you can use any Hyper-V related guide provided.

If I understand things right, you have to install Starwind on your storage server and create a virtual standalone device, which then should be connected over iSCSI to your Hyper-V cluster nodes. After initializing it as Cluster Shared Volume, you can start a live storage migration of your existing VHDXs to newly created standalone VSAN device.

After you get a second server, just enable starwind replication to it and add additional iSCSI connections on your cluster nodes with multipathing and round robin. That's it.

Valid point, Darklight, thank you.

Any further questions here?