you still never said why the servers rebooted??

When you say Move targets? Do you mean move the Starwind IMG to a different hard dive - array? That is fairly easy but you cant do it on line. You have to force remove the target and then copy the file to its new location and then add the target back preserving the existing data. As for moving VMs f...

WORD! Venom, unfortunately your idea will not work as expected, snapshots taken this way may be inconsistent and overall speed will be too slow. On the other hand we have a better solution with utilizing servers both as DB and HA nodes: you just need to install StarWind on both servers and configure...

so what happons if you creat a HA image and leave the heart beat drop down boxes blank? will it scan know interfaces to find the partner or will it use the partner address already provided in the HA set up? if you (hypothetically =) created a HA image and just let the wizard leave the Heart Beat Box...

As for the AD idea have you ever use the MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) LSI utilty? the adaptec raid manager is the same way. after you install the program , when you log in you just use an admin accout on the local machen or a AD admin account if it part of a domain. its really nice to just beable ...

hello again i need some help i cant find one compleat install guild that covers compleatly what i want to do in DETAIL i can not get all my paths to show up. i need a step by step for seting up HA MPIO(mpio per box) to ESXi each starwind box has 4 nics Just for iscsi targets, if i make a target in n...

NIC teaming does not work well for iSCSI traffic with more then 2 NICs teamed (iSCSI PDU size is limited). Please stay tuned as V5.7 will have own MPIO implementation and we'll take care of multiple network interfaces (non-teamed) to aggregate bandwidth. Also V5.7 fill have final fix for 10 and 40 ...

also how can i view the contents of a virtual hd img file , how can i copy stuff out of it if need?

hello guys in my HA set up each starwind box has a 4 port gigbit nic just for the sync they are connected directly to each other with 4 pach cords. in the the nic propertys i set up a TEAM with all port ports on each card the type is Static Link Aggregation. when i do a sync it is only useing 25% or...

thanks guys good tips!!
i use 192.x because its jsut easy for me. my lan is a 172. and all my wan links and hops are 10. so it just easy for me to know all my san suff is 192.168. 1~5.x

ok thanks
this is want i set up today before i saw your post
so far i have just loaded server on both and got all the swiches set up
so i dont know if it will work but unless i am missing somethign it should work well.

Anatoly thank you for the help. the 4 ports I listed are just for San Traffic each server has 2 four port cards plus 4 ports on board but your diagram will help 4 port to each switch 4 port to each other for the replication link and 4 onbord ports for managment ,lan connetions, ip-kvm ect. but what ...

Hello guys i need some help i cant wrap my head around this. i am seting up starwind in a 2 node HA with 3 ESXI boxes all five boxes have 4 Gb ports for san traffic i have defined 4 subnets 192.168.100.0 ,101.0 ,102.0 and 103.0 each of the five computers will have 1 port in each subnet my question i...

1) Initially setup looks absolutely admirable. 2) There's not much use from SSD with StarWind at this moment unless you really know what you're doing... Better use cheap SATA in RAID 1/10 and tons of RAM we're going to convert into distributed write-back cache. 3) RAID 5 and 6 suck... Use cheap SAT...

Oh I See!!! So for example if you have two starwind boxes in HA, and an iSCSI Client is going to write 1000Mb of data, Using Mutipathing the client would send 500Mb to Node1 and 500Mb to Node 2 by alternating every other packet. So each node would have both 500Mb of Data to send sync and 500Mb of Da...