Thanks for the advice. I failed to mention that this actually is a lab/test/dev environment connected using iSCSI over cross-over cables, so performance and data security isn't super crucial.

Hi. I have an HP DL380 G5 with StarWind Enterprise, which is filled with disks od varying sizes. I'm thinking about changing one of our RAID 10 LUNs to a RAID 5 to gain some disk space. This can be done live in HP Array Configuration Utility, but I'm a little worried about the consequences: What wil...

Here is a late reply: The problems were caused by Windows somehow changing the internal LUN ID of the disk device in question. I got assistance from the support crew to simply recreate the DiskBridge device, and then everything jumped into place and started fine again.

I am running a PoC for my customer's test environment using 2 VMware ESX servers and a Windows 2003 Server running Starwind Server. I first set up a 50 GB "Image File" (name: san1) target on an existing partition, and tested it out. Worked fine. Put a few VMs on it. No problems. Then I pop...