Sorry to keep bugging y'all, but is there a PDF or tech document that outlines the steps to bring the failed node back online?

Thanks!
Jeff

One more thing - the "good" node is (or was) my secondary node; will that cause any issues with adding the other back into replication? Do I need to "mark it as primary", or is StarWind smart enough to take care of that?

OK, I was able to connect by changing the <CtlInterface value> to 127.0.0.1 Now I need help with the proper order of restoring the old node :) Is this a good procedure below? - Remove all HA Targets from the crashed node - On the good node, use the Replication Manager from the Devices section and us...

I think I see the issue maybe. I think the only interface I specified as a Management interface is the same as what I designated as my heartbeat channel between my two nodes. I don't think it is listening on the loop back address (127.0.0.1), I need to change the IP Address for that the Management I...

I think I noted this earlier, but I have disabled almost all of the network connections in an effort to not have this unit come online and be accidentally accessed by my HyperV hosts. Would having the networking disabled be part of the problem?

Yes - StarWind Service is running. It starts without any errors. I have tried stopping and restarting the service, rebooting the server, etc. repeatedly

Yes - I am connecting to the StarWind Mgmt console and not trying to connect to StarWind as an iSCSI target

So if my workloads are exclusively VMs, big cache is good then?

And I'm not sure of the correct order for doing all of this. Is this the correct order? - remove replica from the remiainig "good" node pointing to the of node - bring the old mode back on. (Having issues with this one see above) - add replica. Is this initiated from the good node or the r...

"and you'll have system working SLOWER because of a cache provided latency."

Does this mean it is better to have a smaller cache as opposed to a bigger cache? I thought the bigger the cache the better the performance; am I wrong there?

Thanks,
Jeff

But I still cannot connect

When I try to connect to 127.0.0.1, I get the following error message:

"StarWind Services not found on host"

I have checked, and the StarWind Service is running; I have tried stopping and re-starting it for good measure. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jeff

Never mind - I was able to open it in an RDP session (enabled the network, not StarWind, management NIC). Kinda weird though.

I've replaced the hardware, and am trying to open the StarWind Management Console on the (formerly) crashed HA Node. However, when I try to run the console, the splash screen comes up, but then goes away and the management console does not open. In the interest of being safe, I have disabled all NIC...

Does the StarWind cache also operate as a Read Cache (in addition to write back)? If so, could you accomplish the same thing by assigning the same amount of memory (or more) to the cache during target creation? For example, I could create a 5 GB HA target, and then specify a 5 GB cache. Would this g...

Thanks Anatoly - you are correct that I want to continue to keep my datastores online running on Node2 during this process. Some more questions for clarification: - Do I really have to remove all the partners? Will Node1 not "see" the partners on Node 2 and just auto sync (full sync) with ...

One of my two HA Nodes went down hard (disk controller issues). I have a total of 9 HA Targets. 5 stayed online and available through the 2nd HA unit, but 4 went offline altogether. I had to go into the Management console on the 2nd unit and under Devices right click on the device, select synchroniz...