Windows Software RAID Target Problem

tangel · Tue Oct 05, 2010 3:09 pm

I have a five drive software RAID that I'd like to use as an iSCSI target. When I try to select it using either bridge or SDP, the selection box only lists the component drives and not the windows software RAID-0 LUN.

Is there a way to have StarWind use the software raid lun?

Thanks!
-tim

Tue Oct 05, 2010 3:26 pm

StarWind *FREE* does not allow bridged connection, only image file based targets. Upcoming V5.5. *will* expose LUNs as bridged iSCSI targets but will apply 1TB limitation (for *FREE* mode only).

tangel · Tue Oct 05, 2010 3:29 pm

I downloaded the trial version. Should I move the topic to a different forum?

tangel · Tue Oct 05, 2010 6:47 pm

I've updated to 5.4.1608 and am still seeing the same issue. I see all of the constituent disks of the stripe listed individually when i try to disk bridge but I don't see the aggregated stripe itself available.

Is it possible to use a Windows striped dynamic disk as an iSCSI target in StarWind?

Thanks!

Constantin (staff) · Wed Oct 06, 2010 10:18 am

You can use dynamic disk for image file, but no as diskbridge. In fact dynamic is software RAID made by OS, so when you are trying to share it as diskbrdife StarWind doesn`t recognize it as hadware RAID.

Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:33 pm

Yes, it's a wrong forum for your post so I'll move it with keeping "shadow" here.

Constantin was fast enough with the "on topic" answer. In a nutshell: only PHYSICAL disks can be "bridged" and exported AS IS with StarWind.

tangel wrote:I downloaded the trial version. Should I move the topic to a different forum?