sounds great, I will send you an email asap

Lab only, but up time is important as we depend on it around my house :) I didn't think SMB3 was really an option since, well I don't have VMM. In my ideal situation I would have the following in place. -2 servers (max) in use all the time, leaving one for playing around and trying out new stuff. -t...

I have a server built that I intend to use as VM and general SMB storage. In addition to this storage server, I have Hosts one ESXi, one HyperV. (started with ESXi, but trying hyperV to see if iit helps with some issues) Storage server Win 2012R2 patched to date Boot Volume 120GB Samsung 840 SSD Dat...

anton (staff) wrote:StarWind Virtual SAN for Hyper-V is what you should be looking at.

bah I don't use HyperV so I guessed at StarWind Virtual SAN for VSphere! thanks, I will re-install the correct froduct.

[quote="anton (staff)"]V6 would be EOL-ed quite soon. Please use StarWind Virtual SAN for everything you do now as there are quite a lot of things changed. Thanks! Sorry to have to be so specific here, but it's really not that obvious what your products are by the name. from here http://ww...

OK, so If I have a physical Windows 2012R2 server, and looking to enhance it's ability as an iSCSI SAN via StarWind FREE (non-trial) product (IT consultant playing in home lab) What product should I download and use? I appear to have installed StartWind iSCSI SAN software release 6.0 build 2013-07-0...

Might it be so simple as I should not have had the iSCSI target server role installed on that box?

I removed the roll then reinstalled Starwind and it seems to be working now ... O well hopefully search will find this post for the next person looking.

ESXi 5.5 host, iSCSi initiator using Dynamic discovery finds disks presented by my readyNAS, as well as disks presented by my Windows 2012 server, but when I create a device/target attached combo in Starwind free edition, it is not detected. Windows firewall is disabled. ESXi firewall allows softwar...