Hi Martin, You are right, the recent StarWind core process reserve/release operations internally for all targets by default. It's okay for all the virtual device modules, but for such cases with SPTI-mapped devices the internal processing of reservation commands can be switched off. 1) Open StarWind...

Hi,

The valid file extensions and alloved folders are specified in StarWind.cfg file.

By default ImageFile devices use *.img extension.
And IBVolume ones use *.ibv

Hi,

this is a known issue with Discovery from the recent XenServer.

We have a special fixed version of StarWind service to support the new limitation of XenServer.

Please send us an e-mail request to receive the updated version.

yes, it´s going to run on the client side. basically it will connect to the volume should the server using it crashes, and use the volume accordingly. the volume will be the type that cannot be shared, as to prevent being used by more than one initiator and therefore corruption will be (at least t...

Do you need implement this on the client side?
If yes - the MS iSCSI initiator's WMI interface could help you.

I tried your values. The size of the Logfile grows in 1 hour to 78 MB. with loglevel 2 it grows in 1 hour to 146 MB. In my opinion this ist much to big. Hi, To disable verbose logs in the Mirror module open your StarWind.cfg file with Notepad and find the Mirror plugin descriptor: <plugin module=&q...

Hi,
Do you use a host name or an IP address to connect to the target?

Do you use the recent StarWind 3.5.3 ?
Could you send us the log files for StarWind?

Hi, Skyaurum!

It seems to be some issue in the iSCSI connaction negotiation.

Please send us a network dump file for a connection attempt with Wireshark (filter it by TCP port 3260).
It should answer the question why it fails and allow us to fix the issue...

Thank you.

VMWare ESX is Version 3i (Embedded Hypervisor) which shows as Release 3.5.0 We have had to de-commission the iSCSI target server as it was simply causing us too many headaches, so, I don't currently have a copy of the log files, but I will see what I can do to track them down. Hi, any news about th...

Hi,

1) What is the Vmware ESX version?

2) Please send me the log files from the StarWind Service (from StarWind/logs).
The logs could answer the question with the reservation conflict...

Thank you.

but what you said worries me, for that means that it can't be used for a clustered database for example? A third-party SAN manager should be use to control shared access to the iSCSI device. Some databases can share a disk using SCSI reservations commands. But the most of standard Windows modules, ...

galonga wrote:the readonly mark is a good idea, but should we need to change an ASP file or insert a new image how would we do it?

If the image is rarely changed, just prepare it and create a readonly target for your clients.

actually no one is writing data: they only read it that because the data involved is just images, asp files, etc. just web stuff that is just READ, and not altered any way that's why I find this weird... NTFS changes some information on the disk ever it is only read. Use the 'readonly' mode to prot...

no more than 3 How many concurrent connections do you have active to the same volume at any moment of time? Do you mean more than one iSCSI client mounts the same iSCSI target and write data to it? If yes - this will defunitely destruct the filesystem in a short time. iSCSI is not a 'fast SMB' and ...

well if you say it's an obsolete method we won't use it. actually, we deleted the ibv image and created an img one, only to remember we were also having problems formatting this kind of volume that problem happened with the K6 servers we told you about: we tried with a newer machine (athlon) and wo...