**** UPDATE #?? ***** Manage to get the sdelete to work from within the VM. 1. do a full format, not quick, on the disk 2. run the sdelete -z <drive letter> ( eg: e:) 3. on esxi run the esxcli ... unmap -l command 4. run sdelete again, now it will work BUT, this is a big but, no pond intended, VMwar...

**** Update #5 **** its was taking too long so I just stop the move, at around 400GB, then format my e: drive in the VM run sdelete -z e:\ the ran, on the esxi server, esxcli ...unmap -l "Files" after all of that, my Storage server did not reduce the space use, its says 133 Files @ 1.34TB ...

The file are now moving from the Files LUN to the Emails LUN
started at 20-03-2014 @ 3PM
it's now coping at a about 22MB/s to 32MB/s

**** Update #4 ***** Ok, just added another VM thin provisioned disk, but added it to a dedup LUN, its only 800GB. this is how the setup looks now: lsfs_size_on_disk6a.png The datastore say the new disk is using 116MB The iSCSI physical disk says that LUN is using 8GB while the esxi command prompt s...

**** update #3 *****

Just check my VM re the disk & flat attach to file name.
it is indeed thin, so why ?

*** Update #2 **** Now I went on the esxi 5.5 server using putty cd /vmfs/volumes/ esxcli storage vmfs unmap -l "Files" it took about 2 hrs, with just the one VM disk on it, but I notice something strange, see if you could spot it: lsfs_size_on_disk4.png I did select thin provisioned when ...

My observations testing v8 RC - UNMAP works! (vSphere 5.5). Cloned/migrated 10 VM's to LSFS volumes (with and without dedupe), and when deleting or migrate away VMs I was able to unmap using this command on the vSphere host: esxcli storage vmfs unmap -l "datastore name" After all data del...

A little followup I created a 100GB LSFS LUN and created a VMFS datastore. I created a 50GB thick provisioned (lazy zeroed) on a VM (on that datastore) This is not using any space on the SW-box, but it uses 50GB on the vSphere datastore (as expected) I copied 40GB of data to the VM disk. I see many...

Also I~d like to ask community to post the beta related question on our Beta forum that you can find by using the link below: http://www.starwindsoftware.com/forums/beta-f17/ Thank you Sorry about that, can my post be moved ? *** Update **** I ran sdelete -z e: it tock a while, this program was run...

Hi, Had a similar problem, but I disable dedup, to see if that was the problem. But now I know its an LSFS problem. made an LSFS LUN 1.17TB, created VM disk of 1024MB, copy 500GB of documents to this disk, Now in my VM that is using this LUN, on the disk I have 557GB Free, but on the iSCSI physical ...

That's the point. I don't want to waste time doing something better is MS dedupe is GOOD ENOUGH for ice cold data. I am using vSphere 5.5, do we enable windows server 2012 R2 dedup in the VM or on the storage server that is running SW iSCSI SAN or both ? VM LUN SW v8 server SW v8 RC LUN Win SRV 201...

Is there any way for me to access the Beta-3 installer again? I have updated to RC and cannot mount my LSFS device and would like some Data from it, then upgrade it again. Thanks, Brad. https://www.mediafire.com/?a97ggj15xbidie5 (v8.0.6383) Not sure if this was the last beta-3. Please let me know i...

FAILED !!!!! LOL

Hi, Just saw this on the toolbar, and decide to try it. It ask for Hyper-visor address: This is not the vcenter address right ? anyway i use the esxi ip. for the windows iso, i use the server 2012 R2 iso from the datastore, that's been use to install my domain vm. i also downloaded the sw-vsa-201401...