Replication - Select Existing Device
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:24 pm
version: starwind-v8 build15260
Hosts: 2x WinServer2022 Standard Baremetal
Steps to recreate:
- Node1: Add Device (Advanced) - HDD - Virtual - Name:"Witness" - Size:1gb - SectorSize: 4096 - No Cache
- Node2: repeat
- Node2: expand Target:Witness - select Device:imagefile1 - select Replication Manager
- Replication Manger Wizard
- add a partner - "Two-Way" - Host: Node1 - Failover: Heartbeat - Setup: Select existing Device
- i cannot get it to see the existing device on Node1
The only settings in the Replication Manager Wizard i can see I can alter are:
- "Modify Target Name ...". When i tick "Target Name" and specify the iqn of Node1's "Witness" it errors with
"Specified Target Name already exists, change Target Name"
- "Location". When I set this to Node1's Witness device folder it errors with
"Device folder 'Witness' already exists in the specified location"
clicking "Show Details" it add the line "Success"
BUG-01 / Q: Is the wizard's GUI showing it as an error on the "Select Existing Target" screen, when it should be showing it as a "success please proceed"
NB: If you close the Replication Partner Wizard and then re-open it but this time do NOT alter "Location" or "Modify Target Name..." it allows you to advance. But you only two pages further to a "Device Name / Device Size" page that is blank and won't let you proceed.
This is an issue as:
- When you use Replication Partner wizard to "Create new Partner Device"
- it says that it will use "Existing Device Parameters will be used as a Template"
- but it does not
- This is as issue as on Node1
- your target "CSV1" has a C:\ sub folder "CSV1" and image file "CSV1.img"
- your target "CSV3" has a C:\ sub folder "CSV3" and image file "CSV3.img"
BUT
- using Replication Partner to "Create new Partner Device" (as select existing doesn't work)
- on Node2 your target "CSV1" gets a C:\ sub folder "Storage1" and image file "Storage1.img"
- on Node2 your target "CSV3" has a C:\ gets sub folder "Storage2" and image file "Storage2.img"
- This is not good.
BUG 02 / Q: Shouldn't this part of the wizard set the sub folder and image filename to the provided Target?
RESOLVED IN v8 build15260
BUG 03 / Q: Why does Node1's Witness get a filename of "Witness.img" but the device name is "imagefile1"
RESOLVED IN v8 build15260
Hosts: 2x WinServer2022 Standard Baremetal
Steps to recreate:
- Node1: Add Device (Advanced) - HDD - Virtual - Name:"Witness" - Size:1gb - SectorSize: 4096 - No Cache
- Node2: repeat
- Node2: expand Target:Witness - select Device:imagefile1 - select Replication Manager
- Replication Manger Wizard
- add a partner - "Two-Way" - Host: Node1 - Failover: Heartbeat - Setup: Select existing Device
- i cannot get it to see the existing device on Node1
The only settings in the Replication Manager Wizard i can see I can alter are:
- "Modify Target Name ...". When i tick "Target Name" and specify the iqn of Node1's "Witness" it errors with
"Specified Target Name already exists, change Target Name"
- "Location". When I set this to Node1's Witness device folder it errors with
"Device folder 'Witness' already exists in the specified location"
clicking "Show Details" it add the line "Success"
BUG-01 / Q: Is the wizard's GUI showing it as an error on the "Select Existing Target" screen, when it should be showing it as a "success please proceed"
NB: If you close the Replication Partner Wizard and then re-open it but this time do NOT alter "Location" or "Modify Target Name..." it allows you to advance. But you only two pages further to a "Device Name / Device Size" page that is blank and won't let you proceed.
This is an issue as:
- When you use Replication Partner wizard to "Create new Partner Device"
- it says that it will use "Existing Device Parameters will be used as a Template"
- but it does not
- This is as issue as on Node1
- your target "CSV1" has a C:\ sub folder "CSV1" and image file "CSV1.img"
- your target "CSV3" has a C:\ sub folder "CSV3" and image file "CSV3.img"
BUT
- using Replication Partner to "Create new Partner Device" (as select existing doesn't work)
- on Node2 your target "CSV1" gets a C:\ sub folder "Storage1" and image file "Storage1.img"
- on Node2 your target "CSV3" has a C:\ gets sub folder "Storage2" and image file "Storage2.img"
- This is not good.
BUG 02 / Q: Shouldn't this part of the wizard set the sub folder and image filename to the provided Target?
RESOLVED IN v8 build15260
BUG 03 / Q: Why does Node1's Witness get a filename of "Witness.img" but the device name is "imagefile1"
RESOLVED IN v8 build15260