Can't format ISCSI Disk

Altermann · Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:36 pm

Hi@all,
today I have install Starwind on phys. Server W2k8_x64 with Raid10 .The server has the Hyper-V Role with total phys. 4 Nics.
The ISCSI Nic is conected to a separate Switch and has his own VM-Bus.
For my first tests i have install 2 VMs with W2K8_Ent_x86 for Clustering, but after i've initiated the two ISCSI-Disk to Node 1, I got a failure at the end of the formating the Quorumdisk and Resourcedisk.

Thanks for help.
Andreas Altermann

Mon Dec 08, 2008 10:11 pm

Start with sending us complete Starwind log. What you've told is not enough to tell what's wrong.

Altermann wrote:Hi@all,
today I have install Starwind on phys. Server W2k8_x64 with Raid10 .The server has the Hyper-V Role with total phys. 4 Nics.
The ISCSI Nic is conected to a separate Switch and has his own VM-Bus.
For my first tests i have install 2 VMs with W2K8_Ent_x86 for Clustering, but after i've initiated the two ISCSI-Disk to Node 1, I got a failure at the end of the formating the Quorumdisk and Resourcedisk.

Thanks for help.
Andreas Altermann

Altermann · Tue Dec 09, 2008 9:20 pm

Hi Anton,
today we sent you the logs. For your information we reinstall Starwind and
StarwindVSS complete on our phy. targethost. Also we install a new
VM too and connected it to the ISCSI-Target via MS Initiator without any problems. But only we're unable to format (NTFS) the ISCSI-Imagedisk.

Could it be possible that Starwind didn't work with MS-Hyper-Bus togehter ? I hope not.

rgds
Andreas

Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:02 pm

Did you assign drive letter and correctly partition your disk before? What size did you use for it? 2TB+ or not?

Altermann wrote:Hi Anton,
today we sent you the logs. For your information we reinstall Starwind and
StarwindVSS complete on our phy. targethost. Also we install a new
VM too and connected it to the ISCSI-Target via MS Initiator without any problems. But only we're unable to format (NTFS) the ISCSI-Imagedisk.

Could it be possible that Starwind didn't work with MS-Hyper-Bus togehter ? I hope not.

rgds
Andreas

alxwood · Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:13 pm

Did you find a resolution to this issue? I seem to be having the exact same problem...

Thx
Alex

Thu Oct 27, 2011 6:16 pm

It has passed more then 3 years since reported issue. There are not so many components inside StarWind core left with such a long history so I have no idea do you really have the same issue or not. Start with re-producing the problem and sending us complete StarWind log for analysis. Thanks!