the snapshots are taken with DPM via hardware vss provider

Hi!

Good job! With newest release it works!
But I've still the issues with more and more snapshot files on SAN. How to delete them without going offline or having performance issues??

regards,
Lukas

Hello! We're using a 5 TB .ibv device on Starwind SAN v6 (phys. disk has 5,45 TB). After some snapshots (and deleting them!) there are a lot of huge files and folders (.ibvd, .ibvm) eating up the disk space. 1. question: How can we delete this files/folders?? 2. question: How much free space should ...

Hi!

I've attached the (simplified) schema. It's all recommended standard config.

OK ... It's a 4-node-cluster with fully patched Win 2012. StarWind iSCSI SAN Software v6.0.0 (Build 20120927, [SwSAN], Win64) + Starwind Hardware VSS Provider 4.5 installed on all nodes (initiator). MS iSCSI initiator with MPIO. Starwind also running on Win 2012. DPM 2012 SP1 RTM (4.1.3322.0) as Hyp...

OK, we use DPM 2012 SP1 RTM + new VSS provider 4.5. New error on node : Log Name: Application Source: VSS Date: 15.01.2013 09:30:04 Event ID: 12362 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: node00 Description: A Shadow Copy LUN was not detected in the system and did not ...

Do you plan to implement this feature in near future?

regards,
Lukas

Where can I download the newest release of VSS provider? I found only v4.5 (20121008) ...

Hi Tux!

okay, thanx ... and the result? Does DPM 2012 work now without troubles?

regards,
Lukas

Hello & Happy New Year!

We didn't try to use MS Software VSS yet because we chose StarWind because of the possibility of Hardware VSS. So the question is: Does your Hardware VSS provider support CSV/Win2012/DPM2012? Do you have a white paper / how-to?

Hi! We are using new Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster with CSV + DPM 2012 (SP1 Beta, v4.0.3152.0) + StarWind iSCSI SAN Software v6.0.0 (Build 20120927, [SwSAN], Win64) + Starwind Hardware VSS Provider installed on all nodes (initiator). Device is IBV. When DPM starts to make backups, we receive ...