Can you explain once you've created an extra target how it is one expands a current volumes target to it?

Let me ask the question as simply as I can, sorry I am no expert (as I am sure you can see): Question 1: - I have created the store using de-duplication - After creating this store and reading your advice I would like to change the store from 8K blocks to 4K blocks, can I do this or must all of the ...

Sure, that I understand...but what if you need to move the store or increase the space, you could on a non-deduplicated target.

So I am assuming from your answer it is not possible on a deduplicated target?

OK, when I added the store it seemed to be locked on 8K, I guess I was wrong. If I have filled up the store that is currently set 8K Blocks, Metadata of 3998 and Data Cache size of 10 am I able to delete this target and rea-dd without loosing what I have already stored or am I force to start again? ...

Thanks again Alex, I the 4k block size is unable to be modified on this release of StarWind? I'm assuming this is the case? I'm running a dedicated Xenon 5620 server with 8Gb's of RAM and a dedicated RAID 10, would this be okay for the deduplication option? I'm also assuming I cannot run two targets...

Thanks Alex,

Thanks for the update, based on what you've said below am I correct in assuming that a 1 to 4 ratio is a reasonably safe overcommit level as long as one is keeping an eye on things?

Also, is there a 2TB limit on deduplication now?

Thanks for the update.

I have downloaded and installed the free version of StarWind 5.6 and enabled the de-duplication feature. I am using XenServer(s) to connect to the iSCSI store without any issues. When I look on the local hard-drive store of the StarWind server I notice 3 files have been created, one is obviously the...