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    • TheDeepStorageT
      TheDeepStorage Vendor @dafyre
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      @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

      Is the Two-Node setup for Starwind an Active/Active setup or active/passive?

      StarWind's two-node setup is an active-active scenario.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @LaMerk
        last edited by

        @LaMerk said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

        @scottalanmiller said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

        @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

        Will we be able to manage all of the Starwind VSA products from the Windows Powershell? Or Is the PowerShell module only made to work on Windows Starwind setups?

        Or even better, what about a non-PowerShell interface for the others?

        We're currently working on adding a support of Swordfish API. StarWind Swordfish plugin should be released shortly, so please stay tuned!

        Cool.... https://www.snia.org/forums/smi/swordfish

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @TheDeepStorage
          last edited by

          @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

          @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

          Is the Two-Node setup for Starwind an Active/Active setup or active/passive?

          StarWind's two-node setup is an active-active scenario.

          More importantly, it's all active, regardless of size. So four nodes is active/active/active/active.

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403 @TheDeepStorage
            last edited by DustinB3403

            @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

            @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

            Is the Two-Node setup for Starwind an Active/Active setup or active/passive?

            StarWind's two-node setup is an active-active scenario.

            With this setup is there any risk of a split brain scenario occurring? If so what protections are built in to ensure that the system normalizes its self?

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            • coliverC
              coliver @scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              @scottalanmiller said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

              @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

              Will we be able to manage all of the Starwind VSA products from the Windows Powershell? Or Is the PowerShell module only made to work on Windows Starwind setups?

              Or even better, what about a non-PowerShell interface for the others?

              Is there a non-powershell interface for the Windows version?

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403 @coliver
                last edited by

                @coliver said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                @scottalanmiller said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                Will we be able to manage all of the Starwind VSA products from the Windows Powershell? Or Is the PowerShell module only made to work on Windows Starwind setups?

                Or even better, what about a non-PowerShell interface for the others?

                Is there a non-powershell interface for the Windows version?

                Yes, the GUI 🙂

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                • LaMerkL
                  LaMerk Vendor @DustinB3403
                  last edited by

                  @DustinB3403 said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                  @coliver said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                  @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                  Will we be able to manage all of the Starwind VSA products from the Windows Powershell? Or Is the PowerShell module only made to work on Windows Starwind setups?

                  Or even better, what about a non-PowerShell interface for the others?

                  Is there a non-powershell interface for the Windows version?

                  Yes, the GUI 🙂

                  We have a few options here: GUI, Web-GUI, Swordfish plugin (soon), SMI-S and VVols.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @coliver
                    last edited by

                    @coliver said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                    @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                    Will we be able to manage all of the Starwind VSA products from the Windows Powershell? Or Is the PowerShell module only made to work on Windows Starwind setups?

                    Or even better, what about a non-PowerShell interface for the others?

                    Is there a non-powershell interface for the Windows version?

                    If you are on the free version it is a GUI for 30 days. If you are on the paid version, it is a GUI for forever.

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                    • TheDeepStorageT
                      TheDeepStorage Vendor @DustinB3403
                      last edited by

                      @DustinB3403 said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                      @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                      @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                      Is the Two-Node setup for Starwind an Active/Active setup or active/passive?

                      StarWind's two-node setup is an active-active scenario.

                      With this setup is there any risk of a split brain scenario occurring? If so what protections are built in to ensure that the system normalizes it's self?

                      Instead of forcing people to use a 3rd host as withness we use a hearbeat channel (preferably set up on a separate physical NIC to avoid a SPOF) that constantly has the nodes pinging each other. This way if the synchronization channel fails the HA device that is second by priority will be disabled to avoid split-brain.

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                      • ABykovskyiA
                        ABykovskyi @travisdh1
                        last edited by

                        @travisdh1 said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                        Apparently I'm going to be starting with the unusual questions. In your V2V Converter, you have the option to convert to Microsoft VHD, why the Microsoft VHD and not just VHD?

                        Thaks for great question. It should actually work with XEN as well.

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                        • coliverC
                          coliver @TheDeepStorage
                          last edited by

                          @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                          @DustinB3403 said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                          @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                          @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                          Is the Two-Node setup for Starwind an Active/Active setup or active/passive?

                          StarWind's two-node setup is an active-active scenario.

                          With this setup is there any risk of a split brain scenario occurring? If so what protections are built in to ensure that the system normalizes it's self?

                          Instead of forcing people to use a 3rd host as withness we use a hearbeat channel (preferably set up on a separate physical NIC to avoid a SPOF) that constantly has the nodes pinging each other. This way if the synchronization channel fails the HA device that is second by priority will be disabled to avoid split-brain.

                          What if it fails due to the primary hosts failure? Sudden power outage etc. In a two node setup would both nodes then go down?

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                          • DustinB3403D
                            DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
                            last edited by

                            @scottalanmiller said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                            @coliver said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                            @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                            Will we be able to manage all of the Starwind VSA products from the Windows Powershell? Or Is the PowerShell module only made to work on Windows Starwind setups?

                            Or even better, what about a non-PowerShell interface for the others?

                            Is there a non-powershell interface for the Windows version?

                            If you are on the free version it is a GUI for 30 days. If you are on the paid version, it is a GUI for forever (plus the option of Powershell).

                            FTFY

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                            • TheDeepStorageT
                              TheDeepStorage Vendor @coliver
                              last edited by

                              @coliver said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                              @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                              @DustinB3403 said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                              @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                              @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                              Is the Two-Node setup for Starwind an Active/Active setup or active/passive?

                              StarWind's two-node setup is an active-active scenario.

                              With this setup is there any risk of a split brain scenario occurring? If so what protections are built in to ensure that the system normalizes it's self?

                              Instead of forcing people to use a 3rd host as withness we use a hearbeat channel (preferably set up on a separate physical NIC to avoid a SPOF) that constantly has the nodes pinging each other. This way if the synchronization channel fails the HA device that is second by priority will be disabled to avoid split-brain.

                              What if it fails due to the primary hosts failure? Sudden power outage etc. In a two node setup would both nodes then go down?

                              Both hosts are constantly in sync,and each VM has access to it's virtual disk on both hosts. If one of the node fails, then the cluster just continues working if it's VMware FT or the VMs failover and everything continues working in case of Hyper-V or VMware HA.

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                              • dafyreD
                                dafyre @TheDeepStorage
                                last edited by

                                @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                @coliver said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                @DustinB3403 said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                Is the Two-Node setup for Starwind an Active/Active setup or active/passive?

                                StarWind's two-node setup is an active-active scenario.

                                With this setup is there any risk of a split brain scenario occurring? If so what protections are built in to ensure that the system normalizes it's self?

                                Instead of forcing people to use a 3rd host as withness we use a hearbeat channel (preferably set up on a separate physical NIC to avoid a SPOF) that constantly has the nodes pinging each other. This way if the synchronization channel fails the HA device that is second by priority will be disabled to avoid split-brain.

                                What if it fails due to the primary hosts failure? Sudden power outage etc. In a two node setup would both nodes then go down?

                                Both hosts are constantly in sync,and each VM has access to it's virtual disk on both hosts. If one of the node fails, then the cluster just continues working if it's VMware FT or the VMs failover and everything continues working in case of Hyper-V or VMware HA.

                                How would we configure the iSCSI connection in Hyper-V for this? Using MPIO?

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                                • TheDeepStorageT
                                  TheDeepStorage Vendor @ABykovskyi
                                  last edited by

                                  @ABykovskyi said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                  @travisdh1 said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                  Apparently I'm going to be starting with the unusual questions. In your V2V Converter, you have the option to convert to Microsoft VHD, why the Microsoft VHD and not just VHD?

                                  Thaks for great question. It should actually work with XEN as well.

                                  Looks like we'll have to double check this and then make some changes to the V2V to reflect it supports both.

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                                  • TheDeepStorageT
                                    TheDeepStorage Vendor @dafyre
                                    last edited by

                                    @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                    @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                    @coliver said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                    @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                    @DustinB3403 said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                    @TheDeepStorage said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                    @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                    Is the Two-Node setup for Starwind an Active/Active setup or active/passive?

                                    StarWind's two-node setup is an active-active scenario.

                                    With this setup is there any risk of a split brain scenario occurring? If so what protections are built in to ensure that the system normalizes it's self?

                                    Instead of forcing people to use a 3rd host as withness we use a hearbeat channel (preferably set up on a separate physical NIC to avoid a SPOF) that constantly has the nodes pinging each other. This way if the synchronization channel fails the HA device that is second by priority will be disabled to avoid split-brain.

                                    What if it fails due to the primary hosts failure? Sudden power outage etc. In a two node setup would both nodes then go down?

                                    Both hosts are constantly in sync,and each VM has access to it's virtual disk on both hosts. If one of the node fails, then the cluster just continues working if it's VMware FT or the VMs failover and everything continues working in case of Hyper-V or VMware HA.

                                    How would we configure the iSCSI connection in Hyper-V for this? Using MPIO?

                                    Exactly. We actually have a lot of guidance to configuring MPIO properly on our webiste. Here is a Knowledge Base article with details: https://knowledgebase.starwindsoftware.com/guidance/how-to-configure-mpio-with-starwind-correctly/

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                                    • Reid CooperR
                                      Reid Cooper
                                      last edited by

                                      So two nodes is the small end for a hyperconverged appliance (or one that you build yourself with hypervisor + Starwind VSAN), I think I'm clear there. But what about upper limits? A lot of hyperconverged appliances cap out around ten or twelve nodes in a single cluster. What are the limites from the Starwind side if I'm building Hyper-V or VMware clusters? Is it the same and a Starwind limitation? Do I just get to go to the limit of the hypervisor?

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                                      • TheDeepStorageT
                                        TheDeepStorage Vendor @Reid Cooper
                                        last edited by

                                        @Reid-Cooper said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                        So two nodes is the small end for a hyperconverged appliance (or one that you build yourself with hypervisor + Starwind VSAN), I think I'm clear there. But what about upper limits? A lot of hyperconverged appliances cap out around ten or twelve nodes in a single cluster. What are the limites from the Starwind side if I'm building Hyper-V or VMware clusters? Is it the same and a Starwind limitation? Do I just get to go to the limit of the hypervisor?

                                        With VMware we can push it to the limit of 64 nodes using VVols. With Hyper-V, in theory, StarWind handles 64 nodes just fine, but the best practises of Microsoft suggest 1 CSV per node, which means 64 CSVs, which means one very sad IT admin with a twitching eye and chronic headaches.
                                        The short version would be: from our side, the hypervisor is the limit.

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                                        • dafyreD
                                          dafyre
                                          last edited by

                                          Are there plans to continue building the Powershell library, or will you be moving towards a cross-platform API?

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                                          • ABykovskyiA
                                            ABykovskyi @dafyre
                                            last edited by

                                            @dafyre said in Starwind AMA Ask Me Anything April 26 10am - 12pm EST:

                                            Are there plans to continue building the Powershell library, or will you be moving towards a cross-platform API?

                                            We expect to release regular updates of Poweshell library.

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