#BUILD ISCSI DEVICE FROMSCRATCH UPGRADE#

As mentioned above, the configuration is identical to the other server that's working just fine. It looks like most of those issues were related to incorrectly configured iSCSI shares using file-based extents rather than zVol's - which isn't the issue here. I've come across some similar issues on the VMWare forums, check out this thread for reference: Vmkfstools -C /vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhbaA:T:L:P Usage: vmkfstools -C /vmfs/devices/disks/vml. Oddly, I can format the partition with VMFS5.įor reference, here is the command I'm trying to execute on one of the hosts: The ESXi hosts can connect to and read the volumes just fine, but when I try to partition and format with VMFS6, it fails (both through the vSphere GUI and the CLI). I configured the iSCSI share identically to the way they were before, and identically to how they are configured on the second server. Due to something completely unrelated to VMWare, I wound up rebuilding one of the servers and re-configured everything from scratch. Both servers are running the latest Scale release (22.02 RC2). cluster shared storage).I have a 2x TrueNAS scale server implementation with iSCSI VMFS6 datastores configured for ESXi. I've read that file data can be copied and preserve shadow copies by imaging then restoring the drive, but I'm a little wary of doing that since the type of storage is different (physical drive vs. The problem is these servers have shadow copies ('previous versions') of files going back many months that we'd like to preserve, and copying everything (even using something like Robocopy) from device to device will not preserve the shadow copies. At the end, we'd then expand the Starwind images to use the whole drive capacity.

#BUILD ISCSI DEVICE FROMSCRATCH UPGRADE#

Our original plan was to upgrade the OS (as clustering is easier in Windows 2012 than with the 2008 they're running), create a Starwind HA device using both data drives (which are less than half full), set up that device as cluster shared storage, then copy all the existing data onto the shared device.

The servers are identical, and have separate OS and data drives. So what we are going to do is make them into a cluster using Starwind to virtualize the storage, to achieve a true high-availability solution. It's a redundant solution but not a very good one. We currently have two file servers that are 'mirrored' via DFS.

Here's the short form of my dumb question: is it possible to create an HA device as/from an image of an existing physical disk? StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL) OEM.StarWind Virtual Tape Library Appliance (VTLA).

StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA).

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