Posted by Michael Rakitin on May 17, 2024
How to Update StarWind Virtual SAN Deployed as a Controller Virtual Machine (CVM)

This article guides on how to update StarWind Virtual SAN deployed as a Controller Virtual Machine (CVM). Learn More

Posted by Michael Rakitin on June 14, 2023
Offline updating StarWind VSAN CVM

This article provides steps that need to be performed to upgrade StarWind VSAN CVM (Controller Virtual Machine) to the newer version without Internet access on the StarWind setup.
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Posted by Michael Rakitin on March 13, 2021
Updating StarWind VSAN Windows application on a 2-Node Hyper-V Cluster using SCCM

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Posted by Michael Rakitin on December 17, 2019
How to restart/shutdown servers with StarWind VSAN installed

This article describes the steps to restart or shutdown servers with StarWind VSAN installed to perform scheduled maintenance works (for installing software updates, hardware changes, servers relocation, etc.)
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Posted by vitaliy kapshytar on January 23, 2019
Upgrading from any StarWind version to any StarWind version

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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Posted by vitaliy kapshytar on May 13, 2015
Avoiding long full synchronization during initial creation of the synchronous replica

This article provides a workaround on how to create a big HA device and avoid long initial synchronization

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Posted by vitaliy kapshytar on April 23, 2015
How to extend Image File or High Availability device

This article provides an explanation how to resize StarWind image file, NTFS (CSV) partition & VMFS partition on top of the image file.

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Posted by Dmitry Matvienko on April 22, 2015
Recover after total blackout

This article explains what actions are needed to be performed after a total blackout of the system in order to bring the HA datastores of StarWind online.
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