StarWind Software

Do you have an ETA on the beta for version 6?

Any features in this release you can reveal? (ssd for cache etc)

By the end of the month.
- 3 Nodes HA
- Replication for Deduplication
- ...

Wow!

Can you expand a bit?

3 nodes HA - is that just like the current 2 node HA, but with a 3rd node, or is it handled differently (e.g. 2 node HA with async mirror to 3rd node?).

replication for deduplication - by replication you mean full 2 node HA for deduped targets?

I will save some RAM...

Also, now that Windows Server 8 beta is out, will you be looking for people to beta test how well it works with Starwind? (both as an initiator and a host OS). Will Starwind targets stored on the new file system offer any resiliency improvements compared with NTFS?

I can!

Both. Now you can have synchronous mirror between 3 nodes. As a result you have still fully redundant and high performing (no cache flush on one node down) cluster if you take one node down for service.

And you have +1 async replication option (with either 2 or 3 node HA cluster) to store snapshot-based replica on. For DR purpose. So we do support 1, 1+1, 2, 2+1, 3 and 3+1 scenarios @ the same time.

Sure. Pretty interesting.

ReFS from MS is a joke. Bad joke.

Aitor_Ibarra wrote:Wow!

Can you expand a bit?

3 nodes HA - is that just like the current 2 node HA, but with a 3rd node, or is it handled differently (e.g. 2 node HA with async mirror to 3rd node?).

replication for deduplication - by replication you mean full 2 node HA for deduped targets?

I will save some RAM...

Also, now that Windows Server 8 beta is out, will you be looking for people to beta test how well it works with Starwind? (both as an initiator and a host OS). Will Starwind targets stored on the new file system offer any resiliency improvements compared with NTFS?

Have you guys released V6 Beta yet? where can I find it? Thx

No, unfortunately we haven`t got it yet. We expect it`ll appear in couple of months.
We'll sent the e-mail notification to the beta program subscribers (http://www.starwindsoftware.com/beta-testing-program), as well as post the download links and release notes on the beta forum.