No, StarWind 5 does not support Storage Link. Attach a StarWind storage is very simple. From XenCenter, select New Storage Repository and in five seconds, you have the new storage available for the guest VM. Every XenServer host must have an unique IScsi IQN. StarWind 5 works fine with XenServer 5.5...

Create a Pool with xenserver1 and xenserver2 that use the same default sr StarWind1. Create a second sr with StarWind2. StarWind1 works mirroring everything to StarWind2. If you have one problem with xenserver1, you can use xenserver2. If you have one problem with StarWind1, you can use StarWind2. I...

Actually I use only img files.

With the "old" version of StarWind (4.2.2), I have same problems with ibv files.

During these day I'm testing StarWind 5.0, I hope to use ibv (CDP, ThinProvisioning, Snapshot...).

Andrea V.

Ok, problem solved.

I have forget to change the starwind.cfg file.

I have uncommented:

<iScsiDiscoveryListInterfaces value="1"/>

and now XenCenter can view the IQN of StarWind.

That's all.

Andrea V.

I have installed the new release of StarWind 5.0 on my test server (W2003 - 3Gb Ram - Adaptec 2405 - four seagate savvio 10k in Raid 10). I have a pool with two XenServer 5.5 and with XenCenter I have tried to add a new storage repository. The problem is that XenCenter can't discover the IQN of the ...