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roelvdh
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Joined: Thu Jan 21, 2021 8:32 pm

Thu Jan 21, 2021 8:46 pm

Hi,
I am new to StarWind. Just downloaded and installed StarWind Free on a regular Win10 system. StarWind Management Console works fine, my computer is correctly shown as the first server. I want to add the C-drive of my Win10 system as a iSCSI-target. However, the entry Add Target under the Target tab is greyed out. I must have missed something while configuring the server, but I need a little help.
Thanks, Roel
yaroslav (staff)
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Thu Jan 21, 2021 9:27 pm

Hi Roel,

Welcome to StarWind forum. StarWind on Win 10 is not supported (see https://www.starwindsoftware.com/system-requirements).
Here is the guide https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resour ... rver-2016/ (you can create an image file with no replication if you have nowhere to replicate).
Also, we do not recommend keeping images on C:\
ChrisKL
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Tue May 24, 2022 2:07 pm

Let's be realistic. Almost nobody is going to use Starwind for anything more than proof of concept iSCSI. Having to deploy it on a Winows Server is silly, considering that the Server already has the built in iSCSI as Target functionality. Add to it this too: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtua ... csi-target
yaroslav (staff)
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Tue May 24, 2022 4:01 pm

Hi,

Thank you for the article. I am afraid that you are missing many cool features of VSAN, e.g., high availability, out of your view. StarWind VSAN is more than just an iSCSI target. It is a software to virtualize not only the storage but also RAM of your servers. Find out more about caching in VSAN https://knowledgebase.starwindsoftware. ... rinciples/.
Furthermore StarWind VSAN is not a Windows-Server-only soulution for a while already.
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