Manual Copy? Is this possible?

[muhlitfan]

Hello, quick question. And I'm sorry if this question seems stupid, knowing VSAN Starwind is all about automating active-active synchronization between storage devices.

But is it still possible to manually copy the data from one partner node to the other?

Let's say, one of the HAImage in one of my node in my cluster is Not Synchronized. I copy the image files from the Synchronized HAImage to an external disk from one partner node, and then run to the Not Synchronized node. Copy the newest image files from that same external disk to that node. And then BAM, both of these images are Synchronized.

[yaroslav (staff)]

Hi,

I doubt copying data will change anything, as the service checks a bitmap that keeps track of data altered after a node goes down, rather than the actual data on nodes.

[muhlitfan]

I see. Well I'm just making sure about this, so thank you for your response yaroslav!

[yaroslav (staff)]

You are welcome