Starwind Virtual San Keygen 12l
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StarWind also readily endorses virtualization enthusiasts and willingly assists their aspirations to create innovations in this field. With this in mind, we are ready to provide students, trainers, and other relevant professionals with a single, individual, stipulated, free license for StarWind Virtual SAN. Find out who can apply and what the terms are here.
It is a hypervisor-centric hardware- and hypervisor-agnostic software-defined storage (SDS) solution. StarWind VSAN creates a fully fault-tolerant and high-performing storage pool that is purpose-built for the virtualization workload.
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StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere comes as a prepackaged Linux virtual machine to be installed as a VM on vSphere. It creates a VM-centric and high performing storage pool for a VMware сluster.
This guide describes the deployment and configuration process of the StarWind Virtual SAN with VMware vSphere.
By default, the StarWind Virtual SAN virtual machine receives an IP address automatically via DHCP. It is recommended to create a DHCP reservation and set a static IP address for this VM. In order to access StarWind Virtual SAN VM from the local network, the virtual machine must have access to the network. In case there is no DHCP server, the connection to the VM can be established using the VMware console and static IP address can be configured manually.
7. Select Load license from file and click the Load button.
8. Select the appropriate license key.
As an alternative, PowerShell can be used. Open StarWind InstallLicense.ps1 script with PowerShell ISE as administrator. It can be found here:
C:\Program Files\StarWind Software\StarWind\StarWindX\Samples\powershell\InstallLicense.ps1
Type the IP address of StarWind Virtual SAN VM and credentials of StarWind Virtual SAN service (defaults login: root, password: starwind).
Add the path to the license key.
9. After the license key is applied, StarWind devices can be created.
NOTE: In order to manage StarWind Virtual SAN service (e.g. create ImageFile devices, VTL devices, etc.), StarWind Management Console can be used.
NOTE: If a separate RAID controller is available, it can be used as dedicated storage for StarWind VM, and RAID controller can be added to StarWind VM as a PCI device. In this case RAID volume will be available as a virtual disk in the Drives section in the Web console. Follow the instructions in the section below on how to add RAID controller as PCI device to StarWind VM.
5. Click Change Network Settings.
6. Specify the interfaces for Synchronization and Heartbeat Channels. Click OK and then click Next.
7. In Select Partner Device Initialization Mode, select Synchronize from existing Device and click Next.
8. Click Create Replica. Click Finish to close the wizard.
The successfully added device appears in StarWind Management Console.
9. Follow the same procedure for the creation of other virtual disks that will be used as storage repositories.
1. Select the Node Majority failover strategy and click Next.
2. Choose Create new Partner Device and click Next.
3. Specify the partner device Location and modify the target name if necessary. Click Next. Select Synchronization Journal strategy and location and click Next.
4. In Network Options for Replication, press the Change network settings button and select the synchronization channel for the HA device.
5. In Specify Interfaces for Synchronization Channels, select the checkboxes with the appropriate networks and click OK. Then click Next.
6. Select Synchronize from existing Device as the partner device initialization mode.
7. Press the Create Replica button and close the wizard.
8. The added devices will appear in StarWind Management Console.
Repeat the steps above to create other virtual disks if necessary.
Adding Witness Node
Witness node can be configured on a separate host or as a virtual machine in a cloud. It requires StarWind Virtual SAN service installed on it.
NOTE: Since the device created in this guide is replicated between 2 active nodes with the Node Majority failover strategy, a Witness node must be added to it.
1. Open StarWind Management Console, right-click on the Servers field and press the Add Server button. Add a new StarWind Server which will be used as the Witness node and click OK.
2. Right-click on the HA device with the configured Node Majority failover policy and select Replication Manager and press the Add Replica button.
3. Select Witness Node.
4. Specify the Witness node Host Name or IP address. The default Port Number is 3261.
5. In Partner Device Setup, specify the Witness device Location. Optionally, modify the target name by clicking the appropriate button.
6. In Network Options for Replication, select the synchronization channel with the Witness node by clicking the Change Network Settings button.
7. Specify the interface for Synchronization and Heartbeat and click OK.
8. Click Create Replica and then close the wizard.
9. Repeat the steps above to create other virtual disks if necessary.
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I went to Starwind 2 years ago when I did a hardware refresh, old Dell sans were kicked to the curb. I run 100 or so vm's a day in production with 0 issues. I've been very impressed with Starwind support and the such. I can't get over the vsan pricing, need more compute and you gotta pay vsan, just not cool. I have 4 nodes in a cluster with 2 acting as storage for starwind and all 4 providing compute. DRS does a nice job of keeping things balanced. They have a linux appliance now if you don't want to mess with Windows, but it's fine, just gotta remember to put each Windows vm in a different OU and change the times for Windows updates to be applied. You don't want both storage vm's going offline at the same time, that will be bad. I also didn't have to go for broke on stacked switches b/c I did direct connect on the storage nodes at 40gb/s. That's another thing to think about. You could just build a storage cluster and link your compute nodes to it via switches, lots of options.
what version of vsphere and tools are you using? i have an open case whereas the newest version of vmtools is causing an issue with the lsi_sas driver, it's a guest thing and not related to starwind at all, but they are working with vmware to troubleshoot and keeping me out of it which is great. i just backed down to tools 10.3.2 and the problem went away immediately. one thing vmware gss did rec'd was switching to pvscsi which they (SW) are testing...
If you're considering other options, you might find it useful to look at other products that people frequently compare to VMware vSAN and Starwind vSAN. As an example, users compare VMware vSAN to NetApp HCI 21% of the time. Here is a review based compariosn of these two products: -hci_vs_starwind-virtual-san/tzd/c800-sf... Opens a new window
The common thing is that both versions can be configured as the principal storage provider to hyperconverged and converged environments. In the first case, StarWind can be used to virtualize the internal storage of the hyperconverged infrastructure thereby creating Virtual SAN between the clustered servers. Further, the hyperconverged storage can be carved up into new logical volumes. In the second approach, when the environment is separated into compute and storage resources, StarWind pools the resources of the storage servers and thereby builds the dedicated SAN/NAS storage cluster.
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