The final builds of Windows Server 2012 R2 popped up on MSDN on the 9th. I'm downloading them now and upgrading my environment. Was waiting for those to give it a try (knew final build was close and wanted to save the extra steps). I'll keep you posted.

How's that 10 days coming? Still holding out to use this instead of hacking my Sentinel

Great point. Now I just get to choose between the next beta timeframe (any idea) and pushing to the prereleases of the two R2 revs, versus hacking the Sentinel to Windows 2012 and just doing SMB.

Got an ETA on the next Beta? I am seeking to do the same setup. I have a Windows 2012 SC VMM SP1 file server using SMB 3.0 (and SMI-S, but focused on the SMB 3.0 for now) and I'm wanting to add storage from my WD DX4000 Sentinel running Windows 2008 R2 Storage Server that I currently have setup via ...