Yes, several normal reboots on each server. I've no idea what you mean about "layers being aligned". Certainly, it was never the case that both targets used exactly the same amount of disk space, which surprised me. It was roughly similar. Possibly each target was writing small changes to ...

No - these are small test servers, to test reliability, not really performance.

Presumably SOFS might have better performance, as it can leverage SMB3 multi-channel and RDMA, with good IB or 10GbE network adapters. Though you do have round-robin iSCSI.

Yes, I enabled the experimental deletion support. This is a 2-host test environment for Hyper-V VMs.

I'm not sure. But it seems to work running the SOFS in VMs. The VMs have different IP addresses, and I am assuming that is what matters to avoid loopback. Having said that, I am finding that traditional iSCSI connections from the Hyper-V hosts to the Starwind HA targets seems to be more reliable tha...

I have a 100GB de-deduplicated HA target using block reuse. It has 85GB of heavily duplicated VM data which started at 30GB deduplicated. But after a few weeks of idle activity, this has grown to a pair of 208GB .spdata files, and shows no sign of stopping growing! I am using 6.0.4768. I see the lat...

Related question. I want to configure two hosts in two separate data centers for HA/DR. The data centers are linked by a private line (PL) GbE metro fibre line, they are on the same subnet on a VLAN that spans the two DCs. Each host will be 2-socket, 6-8 cores/socket, 144-384GB RAM, 24x 300GB 10k SA...

1. I'm using V6.0.4768. The "deletion support" / block re-use option is marked "This feature is experimental". I'm assuming that this means something like "We've tested it pretty extensively and not found problems. However we don't want to be held responsible if you find an ...

My preferred scenario is - StarWind running directly on SoFS servers. If you cannot manage skip using them and cannot install StarWind directly on Hyper-V nodes (w/o any external hardware). I agree. Also, if you run SOFS in VMs on the same servers, then you can also use the servers as Hyper-V hosts...

I'm licensed for HA with 2 hosts. How does licensing now work with the 3 host capability with V6? Do you sell separate two and three host licenses, or does my license "upgrade" to be able to use 3 hosts?

Also, is replica part of the base licensing, or is that separate?

Using V6.0.4768. A great set of improvements over v5.8, many thanks. Performing partner maintenance is much improved with the new simplified UI. However, it would be good to be able to be able to easily and automatically move a target's data files to another location on an existing host. I think thi...