That still doesn't clear it up. The marketing tells we can store 'up to ten times more data' but in fact it COSTS 10 times more data (and with the new build then 3 times maybe)- if you write long enough to the volume. I fully understand how a logbased filesystem works - I think they are great for sp...

I still don't get how this space reclaim feature is supposed to work. The Virtual SAN PDF clearly states: StarWind’s in-line deduplication and thin provisioning with space reclaim ensure effective resources utilization, and allow storing 10 times more VM data on expensive flash or other primary stor...

The question was not whether or not to use dedup at all for your backups (or any other data for that matter). I share your views on that. and if my budget was wider and I had lots of spindels I'd not go for dedup at all. But we've been using dedup (storeonce with HP Dataprotector) for years and it s...

Thanks for your quick answer. In the meanwhile I have been fiddling around a bit and was able to actually enlarge a LSFS volume by modifying its .swdsk file, and it worked fine although that's most probably not a good idea to do in production. I don't really understand the concept of al this though....

Hi, I'm currently testing with VS8 free, in combination with our Veeam 8 setup. Our policy describes we make one full backup each week, and daily incrementals. That means I have lots of redundant data in de backups, while Veeam only provides per-job dedupe. Therefore I am testing with VS8. However I...