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by LearnVSan
Wed May 21, 2025 10:28 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: VSAN-Free pass whole disk in HA
Replies: 9
Views: 7033

Re: VSAN-Free pass whole disk in HA

Ah - can I switch to "write-thru" L1 cache just by editing the .swdsk files then? Stop service, edit, re-start? Indeed I made the caches "write-back" for both HDD and SSD. Not sure how much worse the HDD array performance is going to get with write-thru but can't resync TB of dat...
by LearnVSan
Wed May 21, 2025 9:42 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: VSAN-Free pass whole disk in HA
Replies: 9
Views: 7033

Re: VSAN-Free pass whole disk in HA

Ah - did not see that script - thanks you saved me from trashing the HDD array and re-copying. Good thing also as there are a few more fields in the .swdsk files. To be honest I think this type of journalling (2-disk, 1-strategy/on-failure) makes the most sense for high capacity devices, from what I...
by LearnVSan
Wed May 21, 2025 5:54 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: VSAN-Free pass whole disk in HA
Replies: 9
Views: 7033

Re: VSAN-Free pass whole disk in HA

Many thanks for your continued help, appreciated. If I can have one last question - what do you need to modify to change the journal from default RAM to disk - when the image/HA is already up? (i think creation options "bmpType=2"? (or is it 1)? and "bmpStrategy=1"? (write to dis...
by LearnVSan
Mon May 19, 2025 9:02 pm
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: VSAN-Free pass whole disk in HA
Replies: 9
Views: 7033

Re: VSAN-Free pass whole disk in HA

OK, thanks, got it working with some issues. - Can you move the .img, .swdsk.bak to another drive later if the same drive letter is assigned? [i.e. stop SW service, copy image files to another disk, change drive letter to original, re-start SW?] I ask as I cannot get tiered storage spaces with SW [S...
by LearnVSan
Sat May 17, 2025 10:35 am
Forum: StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) [+Free], HCI Appliance (HCA), Virtual HCI Appliance (VHCA) [+Free], StarWind x Proxmox VE SAN Integration Services
Topic: VSAN-Free pass whole disk in HA
Replies: 9
Views: 7033

VSAN-Free pass whole disk in HA

Firstly, thank you for making a free version available for home users. I am trying to set up my 1st HyperV cluster and have read on the powershell scripts but unsure how to proceed. But perhaps it helps other users. Using Windows app/driver not the VHA VM. I have 2 hosts with 3 disks that I want too...