That did it.
The device is now showing after rescan of storage in ESXi.

Attaching the response from SyncHaDeviceAdvanced: I have very few screens to show in the Windows based starwind console so I hope this is what you were looking for:

I repeated the process for the .bak file I stopped the service I changed the .bak file maintenance mode false I started the service I tried to rescan storage still nothing. just to verify the networking (which hasn't changed) from the CVT I pinged the ESXi host, and one of the other ESXi hosts... an...

I don't think I understand what you are asking for.... in side /opt/starwind/starwind-virtual-san/drive_c/starwind/headers there is only one folder partnerha02. in that folder is only partnerha02.swdsk and partnerha02_HA.swdsk if you mean in /mnt/sdb1 there is only one folder vSWsanVolume01.... and ...

In CVM, the service is called starwind-virtual-san.service, you need sudo privileges to edit the files and stop the service. No need to change the sync status, it should be good. For anyone else who has to follow these steps, I'll be complete in my documentation: I was able to use the command line ...

As I mentioned earlier, I'm using the CVT not the windows version so I found the files you recommended but I may need some clarifications on how to do the process from linux. You need both partners to exit the maintenance mode. You can edit the headers 1. Stop StarWindService on one node In the CVT ...

Initially Created a LUN using the CreateImageFile.ps1 sample. It creates a non-replicated image. You cannot make it HA later without significantly reworking the scripts. I will come back to how I did this at the end of this post so you can address that -- that seems like a totally different topic f...

History: Using the CVT machine with vmware, Initially Created a LUN using the CreateImageFile.ps1 sample. Using Create HA_2 and AddHAPartner as template and converted the Image file to HA, and allowed it to fully sync. "Primary" was targetha02 "Partner" is partnerha02 The "H...