I would say that StarWind prefers 3 nodes only for additional resiliency allowing to withstand a failure of 2 nodes which also can be built with heartbeat. Just to be clear what I mean, for StoreVirtual VSA or other vendors (Nutanix, VMware vSAN…), you need a witness…

Actually, as it has been already mentioned, StarWind doesn’t operate over a single connection. With the most simple setup, heartbeat (also used for iSCSI) and synchronization are two ports on a single dual-port card. Additional heartbeat is assigned on the separate card (in…

Hello Tim Thank you for your question. There are two possible failover strategies you can choose during creating StarWind HA device: 1. HeartBeat 2. Node Majority Talking about heartbeat strategy, it is true that StarWind does not require additional hardware/software…