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    • coliverC
      coliver @scottalanmiller
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      @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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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @TheDeepStorage
                                      last edited by

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

                                      @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.

                                      That would split up failure domains pretty heavily, though. Impacts to one part of the cluster would not ripple through to other parts.

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                                      • dafyreD
                                        dafyre
                                        last edited by

                                        For the StarWind Appliances, how will those work for scaling out / adding more storage ?

                                        Will we just be able to add another appliance or will it be more involved than that?

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                                        • dafyreD
                                          dafyre @scottalanmiller
                                          last edited by

                                          @scottalanmiller 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:

                                          @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.

                                          That would split up failure domains pretty heavily, though. Impacts to one part of the cluster would not ripple through to other parts.

                                          But imagine the poor sysadmin who has to configure 64 CSVs... shudder

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @dafyre
                                            last edited by

                                            @dafyre 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:

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

                                            @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.

                                            That would split up failure domains pretty heavily, though. Impacts to one part of the cluster would not ripple through to other parts.

                                            But imagine the poor sysadmin who has to configure 64 CSVs... shudder

                                            Better than the system admin that loses one SAN and has to explain losing 64 hosts 🙂

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