how to setup 2 node cluster with clustered Storage - Hyper V

disto · Thu Apr 23, 2015 2:19 pm

Hi all,

I'm new with StarWind Virtual SAN.
I try to setup a test environment with 2 Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V Servers.
Both of them have only local storage. I'd like to setup a clustered storage with Virtual SAN to provide HA Storage to a Hyper-V Cluster.
I've created a Cluster and added the 2 server. Then i did "create clusterd storage". After I added the server with available store and klick next, I get the error "Storage creation failed. Failed: invalid partner info."
On one of the server a imagefile1 has been created on the local storage, on the other server nothing was created.

Is there any documentation of how to setup a storage cluster? Can anyone provide some information please?

best regards

Thu Apr 23, 2015 5:02 pm

Hello Disto!

Yes, we have a quick start guidance for setting up Hyper-Converged with Hyper-V Cluster 2 Nodes Scenario, it can be found here:
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwi ... -v-cluster

disto · Thu Apr 23, 2015 7:16 pm

Hi Oles,

thank you for that.
Well that's the way I expected it. And I will do this as described in the document.

But what about the "Cluster"-section within StarWind Virtual SAN on the left side?
What is it for? I can't find anything about that in the help.

Thanks for your support

best regards

Fri Apr 24, 2015 12:17 pm

Disto,

You may configure everything from Cluster section now, but it is still in development. So my recommendations on this would be, to configure everything in Servers section.
Also, there is no guidance on configuring from Clusters section yet, but we are working on it.

bigflyer · Wed Apr 29, 2015 12:14 pm

One problem I had when following that guide, is that right at the end, when creating the Windows failover cluster, in step 5 it shows "add all eligible storage to the cluster" as checked. When I did that, Windows decided to add ALL the drives to the cluster, so all the drives where the Virtual SAN img files were stored were added to the cluster (on both nodes), so Starwind Virtual SAN couldn't access them any more, so the HA devices all failed instantly. It ended up in a mess...

If I do it again, I'll uncheck that box, and add the storage to the cluster manually!

Fri May 01, 2015 11:00 am

Sounds like it should not do this way... We'll check it out and we'll update manual if confirmed! Thank you for reporting

bigflyer wrote:One problem I had when following that guide, is that right at the end, when creating the Windows failover cluster, in step 5 it shows "add all eligible storage to the cluster" as checked. When I did that, Windows decided to add ALL the drives to the cluster, so all the drives where the Virtual SAN img files were stored were added to the cluster (on both nodes), so Starwind Virtual SAN couldn't access them any more, so the HA devices all failed instantly. It ended up in a mess...

If I do it again, I'll uncheck that box, and add the storage to the cluster manually!

Fri May 01, 2015 11:31 am

bigflyer wrote:One problem I had when following that guide, is that right at the end, when creating the Windows failover cluster, in step 5 it shows "add all eligible storage to the cluster" as checked. When I did that, Windows decided to add ALL the drives to the cluster, so all the drives where the Virtual SAN img files were stored were added to the cluster (on both nodes), so Starwind Virtual SAN couldn't access them any more, so the HA devices all failed instantly. It ended up in a mess...

If I do it again, I'll uncheck that box, and add the storage to the cluster manually!

Hi~ I`m a bit confused. Can I ask you what page are you refering to please?

bigflyer · Fri May 01, 2015 1:10 pm

Anatoly (staff) wrote: Hi~ I`m a bit confused. Can I ask you what page are you refering to please?

Page 29, first image, step 5 of 'Creating a Cluster'. The 'add all eligible storage to the cluster' box is checked.

(from https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwi ... -v-cluster)

It may be that our Windows 2012R2 decided to do something odd and add ineligible storage to the cluster as well (I admit I wasn't expecting non-shared storage to be added), but that's what happened...

Mon May 04, 2015 1:37 pm

Got it. OK, we will consider making changes there.
Thank you for the input.