- #STARWIND TARGET MANUAL#
- #STARWIND TARGET SOFTWARE#
- #STARWIND TARGET PROFESSIONAL#
- #STARWIND TARGET WINDOWS#
#STARWIND TARGET PROFESSIONAL#
We've only just scratched the surface of StarWind's capabilities I'm particularly impressed with its seamless integration with VMware."Ĭustomers requiring enhanced features such as snapshots, replication and additional storage capacity can choose between the Standard edition for $395, and the Professional edition for $995. It was just too expensive to purchase additional hardware for testing so we were suffering with directly attached disks and some cumbersome storage management issues surrounding this limitation," said Neil Hickey, Network Analyst, IIMAK (International Imaging Materials, Inc.) "The speed of iSCSI storage and the simplicity to create new storage resources for our virtual machines is an indispensable component of our testing practices.
#STARWIND TARGET MANUAL#
"StarWind allows us to cost effectively reproduce an expensive production SAN in our VMware testing lab, which saves us countless hours of manual effort. "We were so impressed with the performance and low cost of StarWind we decided to use StarWind in our primary and secondary data centers in both our B2B and Enterprise DMZ networks." Craig, VP of Information Systems, River City Bank California. StarWind was the most often referenced and favored iSCSI target mentioned in the VMware Technology Network (VMTN) forums," said Benjamin D. In order to leverage the High Availability, Dynamic Resource Scheduling, and VMotion features of VMware we needed a shared storage medium such as a Fiber Channel or iSCSI SAN. "We were implementing VMware in our corporate data center, at the time we were using local storage on all our servers and did not have a SAN solution. StarWind, which runs on Microsoft Windows, allows any server (physical or virtual) to access centralized storage, providing a cost-effective and easy-to customize method for implementing centralized storage, gaining all the benefits of a storage area network (SAN).
#STARWIND TARGET SOFTWARE#
Once you click Extend you cannot go back to a smaller size disk.Tortola Island, Virgin Islands, Novem-( PR.com)- Rocket Division Software announces over 1000 paying customers are using their iSCSI target software. Be aware that you cannot shrink a disk, you can only Extend it. Choose the size that you want to add and click Extend.If you need more space for a disk, go back into Starwind and right click on the disk -> Extend Size of HA Device.If you want to remove a disk, go back into Starwind and right click on the disk -> Remove Target.After the disk was added into the Cluster, right click on the disk and choose Add to cluster shared volumes. The last step is to go into Fail Over Cluster, go to Disks -> Add Disk.The new added disks will show Offline, right click and change it to Online -> Initialize -> New Volume -> Format. After the iSCSI Initiator, go to Server Manager -> File and Storage -> Volumes -> Disks.Just click OK and it will connect, the status should say Connected for all disks.
#STARWIND TARGET WINDOWS#
A new windows will open for that disk.If a disk shows Inactive then click on Connect. After connecting you’ll see all the disks from all the servers showing Connected.Open the iSCSI Initiator and on the Target put the IP or Name and click Quick Connect. After the disk is created you will need to go and search on the server (if not showing up, needs to be installed as a feature) iSCSI Initiator.For the next step you need to choose your Target that you just created before or you can create a new Target.You can set maximum available size or can choose the size for the Cache. With Write-Back your data is write into the RAM and later (running in background) to disk. With Write-Through you data is written simultaneously both to disk and RAM, preventing data loss, but you’ll sacrifice the array performance. Next step is to choose Device RAM Cache.On your physical server choose the disk with the most space. Choose where you will put the Physical Disk image.From the options choose Hard Disk Device. After the Target is created, click on the name and on the Menu on the top, choose Add Device (advanced).Choose a name for the target (Target Alias) and then click Next.Right click on the name and then Add Target. In order to add a disk to a server, first you need to add a Target.After adding the server click on the name and then Connect. Click OK on the the IP/Name and will add the server. Click on Advanced and then Scan Starwind Servers.Open Startwind Console and click on Add New Server. The disks will be used for Fail Over Clusters: