Possible issue with HA and target creation

kmax · Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:51 am

HA setup with 5.6

Failover node is wiped out. The "partner" images don't exist.

Recreate the targets. In the wizard, select the original "good" img file...thinking you can do a full-resycnc against an empty image on the partner...

In the wizard, select the path and file name of what the partner should be. Since it doesn't exist you check the checkbox for the partner and define the size. So you enter the size you know is correct. It won't let you, says there is a mismatch of sizes.

Work around is to copy the master img file to the parnter. Then in the wizard you can select both files and resync.

Wondering if this is repeatable.

Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:37 am

It is! We'll provide more checks but there's no way to avoid sync Vs. blank data if user had forced StarWind doing this.

kmax wrote:HA setup with 5.6

Failover node is wiped out. The "partner" images don't exist.

Recreate the targets. In the wizard, select the original "good" img file...thinking you can do a full-resycnc against an empty image on the partner...

In the wizard, select the path and file name of what the partner should be. Since it doesn't exist you check the checkbox for the partner and define the size. So you enter the size you know is correct. It won't let you, says there is a mismatch of sizes.

Work around is to copy the master img file to the parnter. Then in the wizard you can select both files and resync.

Wondering if this is repeatable.

kmax · Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:20 pm

Is this something that will be fixed in the future?

I guess I don't understand why you give the option of specifying an image, then allow you to create a "new" partner image and have it fail.

Fri Mar 25, 2011 11:48 am

Yes, absolutely!

kmax wrote:Is this something that will be fixed in the future?

I guess I don't understand why you give the option of specifying an image, then allow you to create a "new" partner image and have it fail.