Set up vSAN Free and Hyper-V Cluster from scratch

[RobT64]

Hi, I have been using vSAN Free and Hyper-V Cluster for about 3 years now, and just decided to rebuild the Hyper-V cluster. I don't recall changing anything at all with the two vSAN nodes, but the newly rebuilt Hyper-V Cluster nodes could not connect to iSCSI, (I kept getting a licence error). So I removed vSAN and rebuilt both machines. And was planning to rebuild the entire cluster. However, I can no longer find the guide I used to set it all up.

Every time I search I wind up with guides talking about hyper converged, which is not what I want or have a licence for. I will admit my eyes are not as good as they used to be so I struggling trawling through pages of text now. I have a standard 2 node free licence. It was all working fine before upgrading to server 2019. Does anyone know where the guide to set up a simple 2 node vSAN with 2 node Hyper-V cluster went to?

Rob.

[yaroslav (staff)]

Hi, you can use this guide https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resour ... rver-2016/ OR https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resour ... rver-2016/. It is just the same for 2019. There is no difference between the StarWind VSAN license for hyperconverged or converged systems. The way you connect the targets is different though. I hope the guides above will be helpful.
If the license does not work with the latest build(s), reach out to us at support@starwind.com for the key replacement. Use this thread and 862176 as your references.
You could also check this thread out for more info https://forums.starwindsoftware.com/vie ... p+3#p31505