Updating from Free Edition to HA

[raymondjt]

Hallo,
we are starting with the free edition of StarWind using Win2008R2 Failover Clustering and assigning cluster shared volumes (CSVs) to the Win Servers.
There are one quorum disk image and at the moment two bigger normal basic img files, which are assigned to the csv.
In an other thread (MPIO) on the question of changing from free to a HA edition - I got the answer:

"It should be .img file with 65536 header size."

What does that mean?

Can we prepare the "normal basic" img-files on creation, to easy things, if we change to HA?

Any White-Papers or docu on this topic? I quess we are not the only site, that "thinking about" / will convert from FREE to HA edition.

THX
Raymond

[Anatoly (staff)]

There is no official documentation regarding to this.
There is only one way for now how you can upgrade Basic Image target (and this is the only one type of target that can be upgraded to HA for current StarWind version) you should create Basic Image target with 65536 bytes (please see screenshot in attachment) , and after you`ll get second server you need to delete BI target and create HA device using this image file (please note that you should perform synchronization in proper direction by choosing corresponding option in target wizard)

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