{"id":21228,"date":"2017-07-12T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=21228\/"},"modified":"2017-07-17T09:51:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T07:51:32","slug":"starwind-virtual-san-configuration-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/starwind-virtual-san-configuration-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"StarWind Virtual SAN configuration - pt.2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21451 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig01.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig01\" width=\"602\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once the StarWind Servers have been deployed in the VMware cluster, the configuration of <strong>devices and replication<\/strong> is the next step of\u00a0the setup procedure.<\/p>\n<p>To provide HA and performance, StarWind Virtual SAN supports the following <strong>RAID configuration<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>FLAT images<\/strong>\u00a0- <span class=\"fontstyle0\">RAID 0, 1, and 10 (RAID 5, 50, 6, and 60 all-flash arrays only)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>LSFS<\/strong> -\u00a0 <span class=\"fontstyle0\">RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Volumes<\/strong> can be separated in two possible ways. OS and StarWind Device images can be kept on a <strong>single physical volume<\/strong> using partitions (<strong>GPT<\/strong> recommended for the shared storage to allow volumes bigger than 2 TB) or segregate the OS to a <strong>dedicated RAID 1<\/strong> array.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Blog series<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/starwind-virtual-san-installation-pt-1\/\">StarWind Virtual SAN installation - pt.1<\/a><br \/>\nStarWind Virtual SAN configuration - pt.2<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/starwind-virtual-san-setup-datastore-pt-3\/\">StarWind Virtual SAN setup datastore - pt.3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Set VMware VM\/Host Rules<\/h2>\n<p>If you have a VMware cluster with <strong>vMotion enabled<\/strong>, is recommended to keep StarWind Servers on <strong>separate ESXi hosts<\/strong>. Open vSphere Web Client, select the cluster on which StarWind Servers are configured and go to <strong>Configure &gt; VM\/Host Rules<\/strong> tab.<\/p>\n<p>Click <strong>Add<\/strong> to create a new rule and assign a <strong>Name<\/strong> (i.e. <em>Separate StarWind Servers<\/em>). From the drop-down menu select <strong>Separate Virtual Machines<\/strong> option and click <strong>Add<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21452 size-large\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig02-600x408.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig02\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Specify the two StarWind Servers and click <strong>OK<\/strong> to confirm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21469 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig03\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig03.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig03\" width=\"507\" height=\"493\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rule has been created successfully.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21470 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig04\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig04.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig04\" width=\"565\" height=\"458\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Configure the Device<\/h2>\n<p>Login to the first StarWind Server and open the StarWind Management Console. Right click the Server and select\u00a0<strong>Connect<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21455 size-large\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig05\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig05-600x344.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig05\" width=\"600\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From <strong>General<\/strong> tab click <strong>Add Device (advanced)<\/strong> option.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21456 size-large\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig06\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig06-600x306.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig06\" width=\"600\" height=\"306\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select <strong>Hard Disk Device<\/strong>\u00a0option click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21457 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig07\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig07.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig07\" width=\"585\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select <strong>Virtual Disk<\/strong> as Disk Device Type and click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21458 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig08\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig08.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig08\" width=\"585\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select <strong>Create a New Virtual Disk<\/strong> and specify <strong>Name<\/strong> and <strong>Size<\/strong>. Click <strong>Next<\/strong> to continue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21459 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig09\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig09.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig09\" width=\"585\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select\u00a0<strong>Thick-provisioned<\/strong> as Virtual Disk and use a <strong>Block Size of 512<\/strong>, recommended if you are using ESXi.\u00a0Click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21460 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig10\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig10.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig10\" width=\"585\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Specify <strong>Write-Back<\/strong>\u00a0as Device RAM caching policy mode and the cache <strong>Size<\/strong>. Click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21461 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig11\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig11.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig11\" width=\"585\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Depending on your environment, specify the <strong>Flash Cache<\/strong> parameters.\u00a0Recommended Flash Cache <strong>size is 10%<\/strong> from your Device size.\u00a0<span class=\"fontstyle0\">Click <strong>Next<\/strong> to continue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21462 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig12\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig12.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig12\" width=\"585\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Specify <strong>Create New Target<\/strong>\u00a0as Target Attachment Method. Edit the <strong>Target Name<\/strong> field if you want to customize the name of a target then click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21463 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig13\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig13.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig13\" width=\"585\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click <strong>Create<\/strong> to create the new Device.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21464 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig14\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig14.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig14\" width=\"586\" height=\"467\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click <strong>Close<\/strong> to exit the wizard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21465 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig15\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig15.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig15\" width=\"585\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new Device has been created successfully.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21466 size-large\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig16\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig16-600x330.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig16\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Configure Replication<\/h2>\n<p>From the StarWind\u00a0Mangement Console, right click the previously created Device and select <strong>Replication Manager<\/strong>\u00a0option.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21467 size-large\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig17\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig17-600x363.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig17\" width=\"600\" height=\"363\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the Replication Manager click <strong>Add Replica<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21472 size-large\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig18\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig18-600x475.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig18\" width=\"600\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select <strong>Synchronous \"Two-Way\" Replication<\/strong> and click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21473 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig19\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig19.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig19\" width=\"585\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Enter the <strong>IP address<\/strong> of the replication partner then click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21474 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig20\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig20.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig20\" width=\"585\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select <strong>Heartbeat<\/strong> option and click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21475 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig21\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig21.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig21\" width=\"585\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select <strong>Create new Partner Device<\/strong> and click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21476 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig22\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig22.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig22\" width=\"585\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leave default <strong>Location<\/strong> and click <strong>Next<\/strong> to continue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21477 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig23\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig23.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig23\" width=\"585\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click <strong>Change Network Settings<\/strong> to specify Heartbeat and Sync networks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21478 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig24\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig24.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig24\" width=\"585\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select networks to use accordingly then click <strong>OK<\/strong> when done.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21479 size-large\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig25\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig25-600x502.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig25\" width=\"600\" height=\"502\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Networks for Synchronization and Heartbeat channels have been set. Click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21480 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig26\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig26.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig26\" width=\"585\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select <strong>Synchronize from existing Device<\/strong> option then click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21481 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig27\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig27.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig27\" width=\"585\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click <strong>Create Replica<\/strong> button to proceed with replica creation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21482 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig28\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig28.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig28\" width=\"585\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Device is configured to be replicated with the partner.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21484 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig29\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig29.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig29\" width=\"585\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click <strong>Close<\/strong> when the process has completed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21485 size-full\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig30\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig30.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig30\" width=\"585\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Device is synchronized with the partner.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21486 size-large\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig31\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig31-600x475.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig31\" width=\"600\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the synchronization process has been completed, click <strong>Close<\/strong> to exit the wizard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21487 size-large\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig32\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig32-600x475.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig32\" width=\"600\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The created storage is now available to the system.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21489 size-large\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig33\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig33-600x485.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig33\" width=\"600\" height=\"485\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Connect the second StarWind Server to check the status of the replicated Device.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21502 size-large\" title=\"starwindvsanconfig34\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/starwindvsanconfig34-600x474.jpg\" alt=\"starwindvsanconfig34\" width=\"600\" height=\"474\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/starwind-virtual-san-setup-datastore-pt-3\/\">Part 3<\/a> will cover the creation of the <strong>vSphere datastore<\/strong>\u00a0using StarWind vSAN.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"signature\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/firma.jpg\" alt=\"signature\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once the StarWind Servers have been deployed in the VMware cluster, the configuration of devices and replication is the next step of\u00a0the setup procedure. To provide HA and performance, StarWind Virtual SAN supports the following RAID configuration: FLAT images\u00a0- RAID 0, 1, and 10 (RAID 5, 50, 6, and 60 all-flash arrays only) LSFS -\u00a0 RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","twitter_113568041_113568041":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[903,1787],"tags":[90,1774,963,1791],"class_list":["post-21228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vmware-en","category-starwind-en","tag-san","tag-starwind","tag-storage-en","tag-virtual","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}