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sandor.bihary
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Mon Oct 07, 2013 1:40 pm

Hello all!

I would like to ask about the NAS function of the starwind.

Can I build a scale-out nas? So Can I create a big cluster with 15 nodes (5 HA cluster with 3 way mirroring) and create a huge file system and present it over Cifs or samba?

I have some Windows server and this server need a huge bandwidth with a huge (300 TB) Cifs shared file system.

Thanks
Sanyi
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Tue Oct 08, 2013 7:53 am

Yes, you can. You use StarWind to provide a backbone block storage for your Scale-Out File Servers and use SMB 3.0 to feed shared storage to your Hyper-V cluster. See these:

http://www.starwindsoftware.com/sw-prov ... le-servers

http://www.starwindsoftware.com/sw-conf ... le-servers

Right now we provide an infrastructure and manuals, upcoming V8 we'll have a configuration tool (you can check it right now) to export content as an SMB / NFS file shares (failover) in automatic mode.
V8 R2 will have the same thing for unified namespace CSV and SoFS.
sandor.bihary wrote:Hello all!

I would like to ask about the NAS function of the starwind.

Can I build a scale-out nas? So Can I create a big cluster with 15 nodes (5 HA cluster with 3 way mirroring) and create a huge file system and present it over Cifs or samba?

I have some Windows server and this server need a huge bandwidth with a huge (300 TB) Cifs shared file system.

Thanks
Sanyi
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Anton Kolomyeytsev

Chief Technology Officer & Chief Architect, StarWind Software

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