What I have done so far: BTW: I did see a few unmap/trim in the logs before, but the size on disk was the same. 1) I deleted that lun, and created a new one in v8b7774 (1024GB in size) using LSFS, with 128 L1 cache, 512 sector size, no option for dedup & defrag. it created a few files: ISOdisk2....

Can you give a little detail on the testing you did, including your hardware spec and setup ?

Thanks.

Anatoly (staff) wrote:I`m pretty sure that you are referring to version 8 (correct me if I`m wrong). It can be downloaded from the customers page:
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/customer-page

No, not v8. What I am asking about is v6
as in the previous version.

Thanks.

Don't you have to install the NFS client on Hyper-v
Mount the NFS share
the tell Hyper-v what local place or directory to put its VM.

the min you put "\\" that tells hyper-v its smb.

I will try it with VMware workstation, the lab of hyper using nfs.

Thanks.

I still don't get the idea behind this but it doesn't matter either, I ordered a bunch of new spindels and we stay with 2012R2 dedupe. Thats offline, meaning I need to keep free almost 1:1 the space my prod environment consumes in order to do a full, but for now that's the best I can do. Starwind i...

Hi Anatoly (staff),

can you post a link to the latest version 6 ?

Thanks.

Hi,

Just like to know about the awards on this page ?
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/awards

I can seem to find out which one of the StarWind products each award is base on or for.

Is there any Award(s) for StarWind Virtual SAN v8.x.xxx ?

Thanks.

Can you give us a few notes on what is been work on for this beta, like esxi 5.5 unmap, etc...

Thanks.

Hi,

Esxi 5.5u2 unmap/trim command still does not work ?

Thanks.

Hi,

Any update on this ???

Is v8 build 7774 the current version ?
Was the unmap/trim now work with VMware esxi 5.5u2 ?

Thanks.

Hi, If I use starwind on SSDs, is it better to use thin or thick provisioning? What about the auto-defrag feature. Should I activate it with SSDs? In my opinion thin provisioning should be quicker on SSDs because of TRIM. If I use thick provisioning the host doesn't see the free areas on the SSDs a...

I`m sorry, have you missed my last post? R&D confirmed that we can have that issue. QA department is testing the fix for it right now. As soon as we`ll be sure that it works we will update RC or put the fix into the RTM build. Sorry, guest I did. I will have to wait then, for new update.

WTH (what the hell) is happening here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I have formatted the f: drive, which is located on the Emails LUN. On the iSCSI Server, i have regain my disk space, the .spspx files are now back to 1 file. but, but , but, that dawn esxi 5.5 server, is at its limit with fr...

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**** Update ??? **** Just did a full format of my F: drive in the VM, the F: is on the email LUN, it has dedup enabled. The format is still not finish, it's about 80-85% completed, but the email LUN just has one(1) .spspx file (emails_118.spspx). This takes like forever. Going 2hrs now the emails LU...