StarWind Software

Hi,

I just installed the SAN and NAS free version, one of the 2 disks' free space is just too low, the disk is 347GB usable capacity but only 19GB is available ?

I'm using Stripe only, this is a test environment.

Not sure if this is any misconfiguration.

Not sure why, but I removed the disk and reconfigured it, and its showing full space now but the dashboard still shows 100% of storage used even though nothing is stored in them.

You have formatted the entire underlying storage as ZFS and that is why it may be showing 100%.
Also, please try passing the StarWind devices to ESXi. You should be able to consume the entire ZFS volume.

The Storage Appliance is running as a VM with Disk directly attached to the Storage Appliance.

So I deleted 2 virtual disks and now it shows 50% space used, can I know if this means thats here space used refers to the number of disks configured instead of the free space of the disks ?!

I think it is the GUI glitch, did you try restarting the VM?

The VM was restarted more than once, the vCenter was restarted.

Anyway I have had a lookup, correct me if I'm wrong.

The vCenter plugin allows the Storage Appliance UI to be displayed within the vCenter pages, meaning I can do configurations from within vCenter.

If thats the case then I can simply connect storage to ESXi software iSCSI and be done with it.

Did you create the StarWind Devices on those disks? If not, can you try creating some so you consume the capacity of the disks?

yaroslav (staff) wrote:Did you create the StarWind Devices on those disks? If not, can you try creating some so you consume the capacity of the disks?

I'm not creating StarWind devices on the disks, I'm creating StarWind as a VM on ESXi and then attaching disks to the VM

Can you try filling the disks with data? E.g., creating a datastore on it and putting test VMs there?