Hello, i expanded an starwind iscsi volume from 25GB to 40GB. I use this volume as shared storage in a windows 2008 cluster. In windows 2008 i can see an extra 15GB in disk manager but i can not expand the volume to 40GB; expand is grayed out , shrink does work. Any ideas? THanks Anthony Hi Anthony...

cshenberger wrote:However the volume is still working

I'd suggest you to backup all files from the volume and run chkdsk against it.

It seems some files are corrupted if the error event 55 is reported...

It happens at random times in small groups, and now I am also getting event ID 55 errors from source NTFS It seems that the volume is corrupted by the previous errors. Event ID: 55 Source: NTFS Description: The file system structure on disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on ...

hi,

Our test-lab is trying to reproduce the problem with our Coraid SR1521 and the recent StarPort.

Could you tell us the scenario(s) when the problem occurs?

Thank you for you feedback and your patience.

Hi Mike, 1) Use DiskBridge instead of SPTI for hard drives. 2) The MS iSCSI initiator is recommended for production systems. 3) To access a mounted iSCSI drive on the client, use the Disk Manager to initialize and format the disk. 4) For large hard drives (>2TB) the client system should be Windows S...

Hi, StarPort 3.6 is unable to recognize on-the-fly that an AoE device has changed it's size. So dismount and mount the Coraid volume after adding space to it. You need not convert the disk to dynamic to encrease your existing NTFS partition(s). On the Windows side use the disk partitioning tool ( DI...

pkw wrote:Your solution seems not to work on my machine because the 2nd connection does't shop up in the config tool - perhaps I have to update my version from 3.2.2 to 3.5.4. I'll give it a try later.

Yes, the feature is available only in recent versions.

It should work well in v3.5.4+

Ok, I configured MS CLUSTER. I have an active node, that can write to shared disk (quorum), and a passive node(shared disk is unavailable). When i move cluster group, it's works fine. But when i shut off active cluster node, passive node cant connect to shared disk before i reboot iSCSI target. iSC...

Do you mean you need StarWind to listen to 2 different TCP/IP ports? It is possible, but you need to edit the config file (StarWind.cfg) manually and add the following rules: <connections> <connection value="127.0.0.1:3260"/> <connection value="192.168.0.1:7777"/> ... </connectio...

Hi,

StarWind does support the SCSI3_RESV_WRITEEXCLUSIVEREGISTRANTSONLY feature.

Could you send the log files from your StarWind/logs directory to my email?

The log files should shed some light on the problem...

Support of multi-LUN targets is scheduled for StarWind v 4.

Hi, StarWind 3.5.x does not support the feature. Currently the persistent reservation subset that is implemented in StarWind supports the MS Windows Server 2008 clustering according to the MS specification. Are there any white-papers on the persistent reservation's features that are needed for your ...

Travelcard wrote:Hi there
Did you guys get the log and were you able to find anything from it?
Thanks

No, we did not receive it yet.

please send the link to my email directly.

Thank you.

hi,
please upload the dump file to our ftp (email support at rds if you need more details).

Thank you!

Hi,
could you zip and upload the crash dump file (*.mdmp otr *.dmp) to a ftp/http server?
We need the information to investigate the problem...

Please email it to support@starwind.com

Thank you.