Starwind Thin Provisioning

Thu Dec 29, 2011 9:04 pm

There's no such thing as "simple thin provisioning". You also get snapshots with it (in case of near-CDP) and deduplication. Dedupe is not in beta BTW. We'll consider opportunity to implement "TP only" volumes however.

kevin@nextvault.com wrote: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 you have described and we have seen in the dedupe mode.

Thanks

kevin@nextvault.com · Thu Dec 29, 2011 9:47 pm

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 the bottom of the screen the star indicates "Items marked with (star) are experimental. Use at your own risk"

So I am confused about this statement and yours. Please advise. Thanks

Thu Dec 29, 2011 9:52 pm

"Experimental" does not mean "beta". VMware has half of their features marked "experimental".

Also with release 5.8 we'll remove all "stars".

kevin@nextvault.com wrote: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 the bottom of the screen the star indicates "Items marked with (star) are experimental. Use at your own risk"

So I am confused about this statement and yours. Please advise. Thanks