Problems installting on windows 2012 std core

[Klas]

I get an error in a setup windows 'Not implemented'.

The server is a windows 2012 std core, try to install starwind server v6.0

Error installing on windows 2012

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PS C:\Users\admin> get-service msiscsi

Status Name DisplayName
------ ---- -----------
Running msiscsi Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Service


PS C:\Users\admin> Get-WindowsFeature -name *iscsi*

Display Name Name Install State
------------ ---- -------------
[ ] iSCSI Target Server FS-iSCSITarget-Server Available
[ ] iSCSI Target Storage Provider (VDS and V... iSCSITarget-VSS-VDS Available

Any ideas?

[Klas]

Same error when i try to install lates build of 5.8.

Have anyone tried Starwind on windows 2012 core?

[Bohdan (staff)]

Same error when i try to install lates build of 5.8.

Have anyone tried Starwind on windows 2012 core?

Do not install StarWind Management Console on Core Windows versions where there is no Graphical Interface (Windows Explorer).
Select "StarWind iSCSI Service" installation type.
Install the StarWind Management Console on any non-Core machine and manage StarWind service remotely.

[Klas]

Hi,

We only try to install the server tools but get the error.

PS C:\storage> Get-WindowsFeature -name *gui*

Display Name Name Install State
------------ ---- -------------
[X] Graphical Management Tools and Infrastructure Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra Installed
[ ] Server Graphical Shell Server-Gui-Shell Available

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[anton (staff)]

Kind of strange... OK, let us check the stuff with our latest build. Thank you for your feedback!

[Klas]

Ok, an explanation and solution should be great. We are aming on upgrading all of our hyper-v 2 node clusters to v6.

I enabled full gui on the 2012 server and after that the installer worked.

Might it be that the installer shecks if there is a "gui" on the server and then run the installation differently? If so, have you taken in account the different types of gui in 2012?

[anton (staff)]

Not really, shoud be some other component service is willing to have. Let us check...

Ok, an explanation and solution should be great. We are aming on upgrading all of our hyper-v 2 node clusters to v6.

I enabled full gui on the 2012 server and after that the installer worked.

Might it be that the installer shecks if there is a "gui" on the server and then run the installation differently? If so, have you taken in account the different types of gui in 2012?

[Klas]

New feature found

This is not our production nodes, just to test and verify stability of v6.0.

We have problems to configure HA. Seems like when though the option is available the setting is not accepted to run HB and sync on same NIC.

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[Bohdan (staff)]

Dedicated heartbeat channel is required.
I mean there must be at least two dedicated channels between each pair of HA nodes (one for "Sync and heartbeat" and one for "Heartbeat only").

The HA configuration with 2 Nodes should look like on the attached image.
But instead of 2 sync channels you can use one during testing.
The GUI warning message will be corrected.