Hi, I'm not sure it's doable from the Management console. StarWind can mount the whole device as read only, but this would apply to all initiators. You can try setting the disk as read only on the initiator side, but I'm not sure Veeam will be able to work with it. BTW: Is this setting a Veeam requi...

Hi Pavel,
Did you have a chance to perform the second test?
What was the outcome?

Yes, customers who purchased commercial licenses can ask sales to give them the link for the version of the product they purchased.
Not sure if the same will work for free users though.

That may be the wrong license file.
Is there any chance you could send it to support@starwindsoftware.com mentioning this forum thread?

Hi,
Actually StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere comes with no HA capacity limitations.
It's an unlimited 2-node license which you can use either with free or with a commercial vSphere installation.
Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions.

Hi Rob,
Sorry for that.
I've updated the release notes for the build 7145.
Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions.

Release Notes V8 build 7145 Fixes and updates in this build: - Performance fixes for ImageFile (including usage with SSDs). - VTL now works with MS DPM. It still can’t make backup that use several tapes with DPM. It is not major issue, as DPM has the same problem with other tape libraries ( for exa...

I would recommend to stop and disable the Microsoft iSCSI target services using the services.msc snap-in.
Once it's disabled you should be able to install StarWind normally.

StarWind Virtual SAN V8 build 6884 Fixes and updates in this build: Licensing: Free license now have no limitations for single-node devices, as it was in V6. Management interface for Virtual Tape devices: Fixed bug with display of Virtual tape devices in Management Console. They could be created bu...

StarWind Virtual SAN V8 Release notes New Features and Improvements New Log-structured File System container It implements thin-provisioning, snapshots, optional deduplication. Synchronous and asynchronous replication can also be configured for a Log-structured File System (LSFS) device. LSFS is fl...

Gentlemen,
Thank you for pointing out the important questions
I'll update our best practices guide shortly and make sure that these questions get into the document.

Hi Juri, StarWind iSCSI SAN and StarWind Native SAN are now renamed into StarWind Virtual SAN. Before, StarWind iSCSI SAN was the product for installing on dedicated SAN servers to be then used with any client OS or hypervisor. Native SAN was the product for installing on Hyper-V hosts only, and clu...

You're correct,
The iSCSI target role on WS 2012 R2 Locks the 3260 port, so you're not able to see the StarWind targets.
You may workaround it by changing the ports you use for StarWind in both StarWind management console and vSphere iSCSI initiator dynamic discovery window.

Hi Craggy,
The only way to test this is to disable the L2 cache and do one more test.
I can't tell if it's the bottleneck for sure since you also have your RAM cache sitting on top, and the network which can slightly increase the latency.

Could you please tell me if the device is used by any other application other than StarWind.
There should be something preventing StarWind from getting full control over the device.