StarWind Software

Hi

I just downloaded and deployed the latest VSA as a new VM on ESXi. Installed and boots fine, gets an IP from DHCP but nothing appears when I try the IP in a browser.
I can ping the VM but no web interface to manage it.

Any ideas?

Use the latest build of StarWind VSAN at https://www.starwindsoftware.com/release-notes-build to install StarWind Management Console. In the console, add the VSA IP and you are ready to go.

Hi

Oh, I thought from reading the docs the VSA was supposed to have everything bundled, including the management console?

It worked connecting the VSA to a local management console.
However, logging in and it tells me there are no disks configured for storage in the VSA and to go to the web interface https://10.10.1.154:9090/ to configure them.
I tried the URL and it opens a StarWind Virtual Storage Appliance login page but I don't have any details to login. Where do I find the login info for this page?

You might have come across the previous version of documentation at the website. Here is an updated document - https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resour ... re-vsphere

Thanks, that was it. The new documentation was much clearer.
I see the VSA is not licensed for LSFS devices. Is there a specific reason for this?

LSFS is not licensed to use with our new VSA version. New functionality will be added in the upcoming builds.

Ok, thanks.

I've been testing the VSA without much success.

Initially it booted and configured fine. I created a 1TB volume and connected an ESXi bok to it. Mounted fine and created a Datastore.
I used a testing VM with Server 2016 to run a disk benchmark using ATTO and the performance was a good bit worse than a test run on a Starwind Windows shared datastore from exactly the same storage.
So I rebooted the VSA and after a reboot the Starwind service didn't start. I started it manually from the command line and it stayed up for a few minutes. ESXi Datastore came back online but the VM couldn't run any ATTO benchmarks.
If I tried to write to the volume from within the VM the Starwind service on the VSA would go down and have to be manually restarted.
I've repeated this pattern a bunch of times, everything has been rebooted etc. and it's still the same.

Have you seen any of these issues during development/testing of the VSA?

craggy,

Could you provide us with the exact steps you did when encountering this so that our QA team could investigate it?

I can but in the mean time I have a log of the SW service crashing if that's any help?

Hello Craggy,

Thank you for your interest in StarWind Virtual Storage Appliance.

Could you please send logs to support@starwind.com? Your help is appreciated.

We will update you with the investigation results as soon as it wil be finished.