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DonвЂ™t forget to configure MPIO to support the multipath. Now that StarWind Virtual SAN is ready, you can connect by using iSCSI your favorite hypervisor. In StarWind Management Console, if you click on a target, you can see each iSCSI session: each node has two iSCSI sessions because there are three nodes. At the end, the configuration should be similar to the following screenshot: Repeat the same previous steps for the third node. To start the creation of the replication, click on Create Replica. Then select to synchronize from existing device. In my case, I select the cluster network. Specify the target name and the location of the storage device in partner node. Then choose to create a new partner device. In a three nodes configuration, you can support only one loss. This mode requires that the majority of nodes are online. Then select the failover strategy: Heartbeat or Node Majority. Specify the hostname and the port of the partner and click on Next. Select Synchronous Two-Way Replication to replicate data across StarWind Virtual SAN nodes. In the replication manager, select Add Replica. Right click on the storage device and select Replication Manager. Replicate the storage device in other StarWind VSAN nodes In the next steps, we will replicate this storage devices with the two other nodes. But this storage device has no resiliency. Once the storage device is created, you get the following screen:ДЄt this time, you have a virtual disk on the first node. Then click on Create to create the storage device. You can also specify a flash cache capacity if you have installed SSD in your nodes. In the next screen, you can choose where are held metadata and how may worker threads you want. With LSFS you can also enable deduplication. LSFS is designed for Virtual Machine because this file system eliminates IO Blender effect. Specify a name and a size for the virtual disk.Д¬hoose thick-provisioned or Log Structured File System (LSFS). Select Hard Disk Device and click on Next.Д¬hoose the option which apply to your configuration. Now, right click on the target and select Add new Device to Target. Once the target has been created, you get the following screen: Specify a target alias and be sure to allow multiple concurrent iSCSI connections. Right click on the first node and select Add Target. Choose the default location of the storage pool (storage devices). When you connect to each node, you get this warning. In the below screenshot, I clicked on Scan StarWind Servers to discover automatically nodes. Open StarWind Management Console and click on Add Server. Create an iSCSI target and a storage device Once you have installed StarWind Virtual SAN in each node, you can start next step. Click on OK to enable and start the Microsoft iSCSI initiator service. If the iSCSI service is not started and disabled, youвЂ™ll get this pop-up.

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Review the license information and click on Next. Specify the location of the license file and click on Next. If you have already a license key, select Thank you, I do have a key already and click on Next. If you want a desktop icon, enable the checkbox. Specify the start menu folder and click on Next. Select StarWind Virtual SAN Server in the drop down menu. Specify a folder location where StarWind Virtual SAN will be installed. Once you have downloaded the installer, execute it on each StarWind VSAN node.

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StarWind Virtual SAN installationДЇirst, download StarWind VSAN from their website. If you plan to deploy StarWind VSAN in production, you need physical server with enough storage and with enough network adapters.

1x VMXNET3 NIC in Storage network (iSCSI with hypervisor).

1x VMXNET3 NIC in cluster network (synchronization and heartbeat).

1x VMXNET3 NIC in management network (for Active Directory, RDP, VM management).

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To write this topic, I have deployed three VMware VMs running on Windows Server 2016.

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In this topic IвЂ™ll show you how to deploy a 3-Nodes StarWind VSAN to use with Hyper-V or ESXi.

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Moreover, StarWind provides pro active support. StarWind Virtual SAN is easy to use and provide high performance. Hypervisor can be installed in the StarWind Virtual SAN nodes (hyperconverged) or separated from hypervisor (converged). The data are mirrored between two or more nodes. StarWind Virtual SAN is a Software-Defined Storage solution which enables to replicate data across several nodes to ensure availability.