Hello bkdilse, Thank you for your interest in StarWind Virtual SAN. To address your questions: Yes, we are planning to transition to a newer OS as part of our ongoing development efforts. While we cannot disclose specific details at this time, the transition is scheduled for Q2–Q3 2025. A migration ...

Hello overgrown1357, Thank you for your interest in StarWind VSAN. Migration from any Linux platform to StarWind VSAN is not currently supported, as there is no existing integration or compatibility for such transitions. We are actively working on a VM-based update that will enable users to upgrade ...

Hello CombFiltered, Yes, you are correct. Indeed, the "force create mode" should be set to "0775" to ensure that both the user and group have read, write, and execute permissions on the file share. This configuration will maintain consistent permission settings for newly created ...

Hi CombFilteredm, The update won't revert the changes you made in the configuration file and will apply the setting to new shares created. Could you please collect the logs from your system and send them to us using this form? https://www.starwindsoftware.com/support-form I'll check them and let you...

Hi CombFiltered, We conducted a quick test in our lab and have reproduced the issue you described. I have requested our R&D team to implement a fix in the next release, either through a custom setting or as a permanent update for sharing. In the meantime, I have a workaround that will resolve th...

Hi anhdzung88, Please check the VSAN configuration guide - https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resource-library/starwind-virtual-san-vsan-configuration-guide-for-vmware-vsphere-esxi-7-vsan-deployed-as-a-controller-virtual-machine-cvm-using-web-ui/ iSCSI LUNs utilize the Standard volume only. Indeed it ...

Hello anhdzung88,

Please create a Standard volume to create and utilize iSCSI devices connected to your client host machines via iSCSI Initiator.
For iSCSI LUNs a Standard volume is used while a Raw volume is required for creating NVMe-oF LUNs.

Hello descalona, I appreciate your interest in StarWind Virtual SAN Free. This functionality will be provided within the upcoming StarWind VSAN update release in February 2024. Please use Web UI to configure StarWind VSAN in your environment for now. Should you have any questions or assistance, plea...

Hello SiegfriedB, StarWind VSAN deployed as a CVM allows creating ZFS stripped mirror storage pools using four or more identical disks. We do not use mirrors of disks that have different capacities. What type and capacity of disks have you used to create the pool? Also, creating a ZFS pool via comma...

Hello rprengel, Thank you for posting the screenshot. I see you have deployed the old version of SAN & NAS, released back in 2021. That was the first version of the software which didn't feature the TUI interface and SMB/NFS shares. Please download the latest version of the software. It provides...

Hello rprengel, The Text-based user interface is not executable from the terminal. So, please open the display console of SAN & NAS VM in your hypervisor and try to use TUI from it. You should be able to log in to TUI using any existing user account with administrator-level permissions and then ...

Hello Jase, Could you please clarify, what is a standard hard drive (stored on a datastore) you are using? Is it a virtual disk (VMDK)? If it is a virtual disk, such as VMDK, VHD, and VHDX, it is identified by the system as such. The "Hardware RAID" layout is allowed to use for the applian...

Hello bolivier, I hope all is well. Our developers are under investigating the cause of the error and we will inform once get the result. It might help if you could clarify whether your account "administrator@vsphere.ne" is correct and it has the following privileges assigned: - Extension....

Hello tryllz, Hope you are doing good. Would you mind clarifying whether the problem has occurred after you had submitted logs? At the moment, we have seen a potential problem only in the logs for December 28th. In order to work around that problem, I would like to suggest scheduling a remote sessio...

Hello tryllz,

Happy New Year!

Thank you for providing the logs. We have started investigating the case.
Do my best to get the results this week.
Thank you for your understanding.

Best regards,
Dmytro Malynka
Product Manager
StarWind Software