StarWind HA Nodes with Different OSs

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Tue Apr 21, 2015 5:08 pm

Will StarWind have any issues if one of my HA nodes is Windows 2008 R2, and the other one is Windows 2012 R2?
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Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:48 am

Will work as we don't use Windows Clustering Service and everything (voting, replication, node majority etc) is implemented by StarWind R&D team in-house.

But... 2008 R2 lacks some quite important features (like f.e. loopback TCP acceleration path) and is definitely slower then 2012 R2 so... You'll get nodes with non-symmetric performance :)

You can do it in the lab for sure but we're not going to support this in production sorry about that :)
jhamm@logos-data.com wrote:Will StarWind have any issues if one of my HA nodes is Windows 2008 R2, and the other one is Windows 2012 R2?
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