How to mount physical disk

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thekingr
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Tue Feb 24, 2015 7:15 am

HI,

I have a Windows 2012 R2 server and I tried the latest StarWind VSAN.
I would like to mount Physical Disk into an iSCSI target. I go through wizard but after it I see the disk as "non-active".
With image file there is no problem.
What am I doing wrong?? I tried to make the disk offline and online at disk management but nothing changes.
Did anyone could success in it? If yes please tell how did he do it.

Kind regards,
Edward
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Max (staff)
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Thu Feb 26, 2015 11:19 pm

Hi!
What is the disk type you're trying to export?
Could you please send us the Device Instance Path of the disk, it can be found in the device properties->Details Tab->Device Instance path.
Max Kolomyeytsev
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ThierryB
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Joined: Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:50 am

Wed Apr 01, 2015 9:51 am

Hello,

as I'm facing the same issue, please find below the Device Instance Path:
SCSI\DISK&VEN_DELL&PROD_PERC_H310\5&31DA7730&0&010100

Best regards,
Thierry
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Max (staff)
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Wed Apr 01, 2015 1:36 pm

Hi Thierry,
StarWind is only able to take exclusive ownership of a disk which is not used by the host OS.
If you disk has a letter assigned or is used by any of the host OS applications you won't be able to export it using the "physical disk" option
Max Kolomyeytsev
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