So far (one weekend) build 8198 seems stable. No performance lost and probably a tiny bit gained (we don't use LSFS so wouldn't have noticed any differences there).

-Thomas

I am looking to update our production system and wanted to find some information regarding the latest builds. I am running build 7145, all thick images, LSFS turned off due to LSFS growth bugs. It took about 5 to 6 revisions to fix this issue (over 6 months at least) and therefore we have never upda...

I would bet money "Software RAID" includes the Dynamic disks from windows. Software RAID controllers (S110 from Dell for example) also would count. Both of those are considered "software RAID".

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/release-notes-build does not include build 7852, March 29th, 2015 release notes.

Just an FYI.

I just did a full synchronization in my lab using the latest beta build (20150216 dated); and the elapsed time seemed OK to me. Estimated even matched what I estimated after 2% and doing the math on current elapsed time.

I haven't done a hyper-converged setup yet; as my VMWare hosts are separate from the StarWind systems so I'll be generic. I'd follow the VMWare guide on configuring network as their guides are fairly decent. And then you would follow the StarWind guide for sync and heartbeat and VM access (their VMW...

If you're just trying to do an HA setup over WAN (that is not at least 1gbps); then just setup the replication partner and point it to your DR site node as if it is local. Either it works or it doesn't. You can check your StarWind logs to see if there are any issues with timing, etc. Did you need th...

Hey Slingshotz; Under your account information; there are download links to the latest version and release notes. http://www.starwindsoftware.com/customer-page If not; work with your Sales Person to have them link your purchase with your login account. As to the shutdown process; you have it right. ...

These are all valid points, but there was zero network usage and zero disk usage after shutting down the server.... Zero disk usage on the first node after you attempted to stop the StarWind service; and there was 0 disk and network activity for the hour it took before you did the hard shutdown? I'...

From looking at the setup; the only thing I find would be the culprit would be the 4 x 1gb; running VM traffic and SW Sync/Heartbeat. VM Traffic should be seperate from SW Sync. Are these individual links or did you team them together? Avoid teaming on the Starwind systems; and use multiple subnets/...

I assume two nodes? How much space provisioned into how many images/targets? I've found that having about 5.5TB provisioned into about 20 images of various sizes (none over 1TB); it will take the SW service on build 8.0.7145 about 30 minutes to shut off. This is with a two node system; no async targ...

Hmmm. What version/build?

Hey Anton.

Been busy; but just replied to your email. Thanks for reaching out!

Yea. I caution anyone with StarWind to never, ever, plan on taking both nodes down at the same time.. EVER. So does StarWind.

I find this happens in only one scenario: You had to tell one of the nodes that wasn't considered the master that this image IS the one to be the source for synchronization. Can you elaborate on what specifically happened and the steps you did to rectify (in your mind) the synchronization? The chron...