Unattended setup of StarWind VSAN v8

Installer options

The StarWind installer supports the following command-line options:

/SILENT
 

Unattended setup mode.

/VERYSILENT
 

Unattended setup mode. Installation progress window is not displayed.

/DIR=<path>
 

Change default directory for installation.

/LICENSEKEY="path to license file"
 

Installs product license from the file.

/LOG="filename"
 

Causes Setup to create a log file. Can be used without filename, log file will be created in user’s TEMP directory.

/NORESTART
 

Installer skips reboot if it needs it. It will finish with exit code 8 if system restart is needed.

/SUPPRESSMSGBOXES
 

Skips any additional questions from installer. For example, if file is use or any other messages.

/COMPONENTS=”comma separated list of component names”
 

Overrides default component settings.

Current list of components.

List of components for typical installation on the server:

• service – StarWind VSAN server.
• service\haprocdriver – HA Processor Driver, it is used to support devices that have been created with older versions of the Software.
• service\starflb – Loopback Accelerator, it is used with Windows 2012 and upper versions to accelerate iSCSI operation when client resides on the same machine as server.
• service\starportdriver – StarPort driver that is required for operation of Mirror devices.
• gui – Management Console;
• StarWindXDll – StarWindX COM object;
• StarWindXDll\powerShellEx – StarWindX PowerShell module

List of components for typical installation on the server:

“service,StarWindXDll,StarWindXDll\powerShellEx” (VMware ESXi or Hyper-V Compute&Storage Separate scenarios)

“service,service\starflb,StarWindXDll,StarWindXDll\powerShellEx” (Hyper-V Hyperconverged scenario)

List of components for typical installation on the management machine:

“gui,StarWindXDll,StarWindXDll\powerShellEx”

Sample command line for installation:

 StarWind.exe /silent /components="service,StarWindXDll" /licensekey="d:\server_lic.swk"