All posts by this vitaliy kapshytar

This article provides steps that need to be performed in order to upgrade any StarWind iSCSI SAN / StarWind VSAN version to any newer StarWind Virtual SAN version/build.
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StarWind virtual SAN, upgrade

This article provides guidance on his article provides step-by-step guidance on changing and disabling L1 cache on the HA device.
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cache, L1 cache

This article provides a basic theoretical insight on L2 Flash cache usage, explains why L2 cache is needed.
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cache, L2 cache

This article provides an advice on how to place a domain controller in case of StarWind Virtual SAN usage.
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Active Directory, Blackout, domain, domain controller, Hyper-Converged, power failure, unsynchronized

This article answers the questions of whether StarWind Hardware VSS provider is needed and what it can be used for.
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backup, Backup Exec, snapshot, VSS provider

This article provides an explanation how RAID issues may affect StarWind Virtual SAN and provides viable workarounds.

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degraded, RAID, unsynchronized

This article provides an explanation should Windows Server where StarWind is installed be included into a domain / be part of Active Directory.
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Active Directory, domain, Failover Cluster, FAQ

This article provides a step by step workaround for Add device/Add device (advanced) wizard issue.
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devices, volumes

This article provides explanation what happens if SSD drive which is used for L2 cache gets broken.
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cache, FAQ, L2 cache

This article provides the guidance for the situation when upgrading StarWind version 6 to StarWind Virtual SAN (version 8) resulted in HA device changing its state to Non-Active, which makes the StarWind storage to go offline
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High Availability, non-active, upgrade