thanks for the reply.

So you're saying that if I use write-back cache, I should still get decent performance as the targets will be used to serve VM images, so heavy random data.

Hi all, Some advice will be appreciated. I have two different server types that I want to use in a HA setup. One is a Intel 12bay, and another a SuperMicro 24 bay(only 12 populated). The Intel has an Adaptec 5405Z 3GB SAS/SATA controller with 12 3TB 6G SATA disks attached in RAID10(I know the disks ...

Brilliant, thanks.

Max (staff) wrote:We'll fix it in the 5.7 release version, we don't want to scare our users

Hi,

I have just had some info that as long as you created the image with that header size, you will still see the message, but you will NOT losse the data. I have just tried it, and even though I got the message, the data was still intact.

A scary message to see though!

Hi, There is now a slider to give priority to sync or I/O, also nice. Didnt see anything about HA and poweroff. Maybe more under the hood, so someone with more inside info might have to answer. Does 5.7 implement any HA re-sync throttling? Or keep state during complete power off of both sides? Thank...

Thanks for the info. Eagerly awaiting 5.8. Like the performance counters in 5.7 btw. It's not part of V5.7 we'll release soon, it's part of V5.8 we don't have in beta stage yet. This or next week we'll publish V5.7 gold and in a couple of weeks we do expect to have V5.8 in leak-able state so you cou...

I have now got access to the 5.7 beta release, but it does not seem to include the HA-to-offsite feature. Has this been postponed?

anton (staff) wrote:Absolutely! If you want you may take part in our beta program.

Have just sen email to support to be get pre-release/beta code, as I would like to test this DR feature.

Thanks for the response. On a seperate test machine, I created a target with a normal .img file. Mounted it, copied data into it. Then I removed the target, and created a new target with HA enabled, and pointed it to the existing .img file. I got a message saying that the img file was not HA compati...

Hi all, How can the following be done please? I have 2 servers that will be used for HA. However, only 1 system is availible now(which will become the secondary), with the data still sat on the other machine (that will become the primary) This machine is not running StarWind at the moment. So I want...

Hi,

How can I go about testing the Beta for your new version?

A couple of remarks... We've dropped implementation we've originally planned to put into production and switched to completely new one. So instead of 2x-3x WAN acceleration we'll have both off-line (taken snapshots) and on-line (active snapshot) async replication modes and it would have at least 10...

Hi,

Is this option availible yet?

Max (staff) wrote:The remote replication is planned for February-March 2011. This will be a complete new product feature on the iSCSI market.

Can you tease us with an ETA on the all-singing-all-dancing release? Well... We've re-scheduled our features list and released planned de-duplication engine BEFORE updating HA with CDP stuff. Good news: new engine does support both CDP / snapshots / dedupe on the same code base. So you'll have every...