Starwind with 1 NIC

WindowsTechBlog · Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:00 pm

Hello all,

Recently i have downloaded the Trial Version of StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS for my Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster test environment. I have to 2 Fileserers and on both servers i create an .img file for the virtualdisk (for the hyper-V storage). Now i have to slect a NIC for Heartbeat and sync. I have only 1 NIC in each server. I cannot select a NIC, is this because i have only one NIC. It is for a test network and i do not have enough hardware to create 2 NIC's in each server. How can i fox this?

Mon Feb 03, 2014 4:51 pm

Hi!

Actually you should have at lease two NICs on each server to run HA. As the work around you can try to virtualize the network card , but that is supported for test labs only.

WindowsTechBlog · Mon Feb 03, 2014 9:44 pm

Hi Anatoly,

Thanks for your respone. It's not possible to create an another workaround? I have inly physical servers with one NIC, i am not running my servers on Hyper-V.

Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:30 pm

Sure. Create a set of VLANs on top of your physical LAN and proceed with your eval.

WindowsTechBlog · Wed Feb 05, 2014 5:35 pm

Hi anton,

First, thanks for your reply. The two servers are now both with 2 NICs. Now I can be in the "Add Device Wizard" only one NIC, why is the other NIC is not visible? How can I fix this?

See the attachments.

Sorry for my bad English, i am from The Netherlands.

Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:51 am

In most of cases we can see such behavior when something else (like MS target) is reserving the NIC, can you doublecheck if this is so please?

WindowsTechBlog · Sat Feb 08, 2014 12:40 pm

Hi Anatoly,

Thanks for your response! I have removed de iSCSI Target Server role from the server, and now i am able to select 2 NIC's!:D Thanks for the solution! Now i can proceed with my testing environment!

Sat Feb 08, 2014 5:48 pm

Excellent! Please keep us updated about your progress

barrysmoke · Wed Feb 19, 2014 12:51 am

What happens if you have to change the ip's on the nics, what does starwind do...does it stop working?

Wed Feb 19, 2014 11:47 am

You`ll probably have a split brain, or just unsynchronization of devices. Anyway, it is not hte best idea to change IPs on the fly.