StarWind does not allow to use snapshots / CDP with HA. FOR NOW. Upcoming version will have re-worked storage stack allowing to mix "containers" in any combinations. Also we're working on alerts / performance monitoring so you'll also see them soon. Hi Anton, can HA, snapshot/CDP be mixed...

StarWind is not that difficult to setup either so it's actually "Web-based GUI Vs. Custom Management Console" battle :) sorry, not my intention to imply that starwind setup is difficult. it took me about 5 minutes to download the software and have the first volume up. but a little bit lon...

eql would be easy to setup and use, but expensive to upgrade or expand. you cannot add disk trays. extra disks only come with new head. so expansion = repurchase. eql uses 64MB page size in its snapshot space allocation, meaning 1 byte change in data will result in 64MB in snapshot space. it's parti...

does starwind plan to provide a Volume Shadow Copy writer? to be installed on starwind server. (not a VSS provider that will be installed on the clients)
this will allow the image files to be backed up in the same way as any database files whose engine supports VSS.

thanks, it worked flawlessly.

synchronization worked, thanks! but i am not clear on how this HA failover worked. primary keeps forwarding writes to secondary, and when primary become not available, how does the client knows where to find the secondary? the partner has totally different IP and target name. the client learns about...

you are absolutely right. starwind's not listening on port 3260 on NIC2 on either server, how do I make it listen on NIC2?

How do I create a target that has HA, snapshot, and replication at the same time? i.e. vol1 on server1 has snapshots created every 10 minutes. vol1 has an HA partner on server2, snapshots are created for this partner at the same 10 minute interval vol1 has an mirror on server3, snapshots are created...

I don't think a user would expected a file be left on the disk after he canceled an operation to create a device.
well, no biggie, just a small refinement.

have 2 servers, each with 2 NIC. server A NIC1: 10.1.1.2/24 server A NIC2: 192.168.0.2/30 server B NIC1: 10.1.1.3/24 server B NIC2: 192.168.0.1/30 NIC1 are connected to corporate network NIC2 are connected to each other using a crossover cable I can ping any NIC from any server. HA device works fine...

from the way a device's created, it looks these features are mutually exclusive. is there a plan to make them all optional for a device at the same time? A volume can have memory cache, HA, snapshot, be replicated, and have snapshot created at the replication target, all at the same time. maybe too ...

is conversion between 2 different device types going to be supported? e.g. from mirror to snapshot and CDP
can device setting be changed after the device's created in the future?
all without downtime to the client.

add target>hard disk->advanced virtual->snapshot and CDP..->create new virtual disk-->next(file's created at the point)->next->you get prompted that "the following devices will be added" if you "back" and then "next" again, an error message says "specified file alr...