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Does StarWind work with microsoft clusters and can I use the ms initiator to connect to this target?

April 26, 2017Clusters Connect Initiator Microsoft MS starwind target

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Does StarWind work with microsoft clusters and can I use the ms initiator to connect to this target?

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A. Yes, MS iSCSI initiator (just as any other iSCSI initiator talking iSCSI draft 20 aka iSCSI 1.0 from *ANY* operating system) is fully supported. However we do recommend to use our free StarPort as iSCSI initiator just b/s the performance would be more adequate with our software. There is nothing preventing StarWind from working with MS clusters. Go on with building new one and we’ll do our best to help you. Here is a short step-by-step description How to build a MS Cluster with 2 nodes using StarWind based iSCSI storage: 1) Install 2 Win2003 EE machines and set up them according to MS Clustering documentation. 2) Install MS iSCSI initiator (it can be any other iSCSI initiator, for example, RDS StarPort) on both of the Win2003 Enterprise Edition servers. 3) Install RDS StarWind server to your storage server. 4) Create a hard drive iSCSI target with StarWind. For now you can do this “by hands”. Just add a line like follows to your StarWind.conf file: add ImageFile1 -file:”j:empimage1.