{"id":1883,"date":"2018-11-02T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2018-11-02T20:03:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T19:03:37","slug":"having-fun-with-starwind-virtual-san-free-and-differencing-virtual-disks-article-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/?p=1883","title":{"rendered":"Having fun with StarWind Virtual SAN Free and differencing virtual disks : article #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See previous <a href=\"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/?p=1862\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">article <\/a>to understand why and what.<\/p>\n<p>Previously we have created our master \/ parent disk.<\/p>\n<p>Lets now create our differencing \/ child disks using our host (windows 8.1) virtual disk capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Lets do it in one batch.<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\nrem list disks before<br \/>\nvmount disks<br \/>\nrem create child1 against parent iscsi.vhd<br \/>\nvmount createchild e:\\_images\\child1.vhd e:\\_images\\iscsi.vhd<br \/>\nrem create child2 against parent iscsi.vhd<br \/>\nvmount createchild e:\\_images\\child2.vhd e:\\_images\\iscsi.vhd<br \/>\nrem attach child1 without assigning any letter to it<br \/>\nvmount attach e:\\_images\\child1.vhd noletter<br \/>\nrem attach child2 without assigning any letter to it<br \/>\nvmount attach e:\\_images\\child2.vhd noletter<br \/>\nrem list disks<br \/>\nvmount disks<br \/>\nrem check attributes of disk2<br \/>\nvmount attributes 2<br \/>\nrem check attributes of disk3<br \/>\nvmount attributes 3<br \/>\nrem disk3 is most probably offline because of disk signature collision between disk2 and disk3<br \/>\nrem lets force it online : windows will generate a new signature<br \/>\nrem make sure to use a BCD using LOCATE and not using disk signature or else bootmgr will error<br \/>\nrem more about locate here http:\/\/www.mistyprojects.co.uk\/documents\/BCDEdit\/files\/device_locate.htm<br \/>\nvmount online 3<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/eBdHtoH.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/eBdHtoH.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notice how the second virtual disk now has a different signature (since we forced it online&#8230;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See previous article to understand why and what. Previously we have created our master \/ parent disk. Lets now create our differencing \/ child disks using our host (windows 8.1) virtual disk capabilities. Lets do it in one batch. rem list disks before vmount disks rem create child1 against parent iscsi.vhd vmount createchild e:\\_images\\child1.vhd e:\\_images\\iscsi.vhd <a href='https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/?p=1883' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10,5,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boot","category-iscsi","category-network","category-pxe","category-16-id","category-10-id","category-5-id","category-45-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labalec.fr\/erwan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}