Use HA targets also as HyperV node

[tom@link-it.nl]

Hi,
I am trying and testing Starwind HA for several months now.
I used two fileservers on witch Starwind was running as a virtual machine.
I attached 3 nodes to the network, so the fileservers (HA targets) were also nodes.

Now I am installing a HA starwind for a customer (just sold) and I do not want to use Starwind as a virtual machine.
But now it looks like I can not initiate an iscsci link to the other target so de drives on the target itself is HA also?

Is it not possible NOW, or was it just possible because it was runnen virtual in my ealier testcase?

Thanks.
Regards Tom.

[anton (staff)]

There's no difference for StarWind how to run: physical or virtual. However feeding storage from inside the VM is not support for production *now* (as hypervisors create noticable delays in network stack work). With StarWind 5.5 we've represented hearbeat and multiple cross-link routes so it should not be an issue but... So in your case the problem is somewhere deeper. Your configuration *should* work just fine. What step exactly is failing?

Hi,
I am trying and testing Starwind HA for several months now.
I used two fileservers on witch Starwind was running as a virtual machine.
I attached 3 nodes to the network, so the fileservers (HA targets) were also nodes.

Now I am installing a HA starwind for a customer (just sold) and I do not want to use Starwind as a virtual machine.
But now it looks like I can not initiate an iscsci link to the other target so de drives on the target itself is HA also?

Is it not possible NOW, or was it just possible because it was runnen virtual in my ealier testcase?

Thanks.
Regards Tom.