Thanks for the prompt feedback. I will give the CDP/TP version another try. On my server which I just installed Starwind 2 weeks ago, when selecting Advanced Virtual, the next screen shows Deduplicated Disk Device, along with other options. Next to Deduplicated Disk Device is a big star. Looking at ...

Since Dedupe appears to still be beta, I'm confused how to setup Thin provisioning in production. I see it available under the CDP setting, but don't see how to just setup a simple, thin provisioned image. I don't need any special features on it, just thin provision so it grows as it needs to, like ...

This is great to hear, I'm glad it isn't going to have to go on my wish list.

you'll just either increment number of LUNs

What do you mean by this?

Thanks for the quick response.

Any chance that Starwind dedupes now or will dedupe in the future across multiple images?

I am trying the steps recommended in this thread and am not having any luck. I want to create an image that is using thin provisioning, however the creation of the img file always seems to fail. My goal is to create a 1TB image, but for it to only use the physical space required as it grows with dat...

We are still troubleshooting with Starwind, we had to put the troubleshooting on hold while we moved our live customer to a dedicated box so that our testing would not impact their performance. oddly we have one machine we setup with a fresh install that works just fine. So, we don't know what the d...

Hi sunyucong

We have been working with their engineers directly offline of this forum and at the moment have not had any progress.
Are you having the same problem?

Hi Anton terrific offer. These are production systems so we need to team up to do this, but I have a tech who is able to schedule a remote session. Can you email me the appropriate contact info and I will have my tech make arrangements with them? On a side note, we setup a brand new install of Starw...

Thanks for the links and suggestions. We are not using MPIO or NFS on the HOST system at all so that does not seem to be part of the problem. WE disabled ACK, no change The problem seems to be able to replicate on both a ESX host system and a Windows Host system runninge VMWare Server. Any other ins...

Here is our environment: Windows 2008 server running latest version of Starwind. Has multiple targets both disk and image and several servers connecting to it via separate storage-only LAN. WE created a new ESX Server and loaded a WIndows 2008 guest OS. Using MS Iscsi initiator connected to a disk t...