StarWind Native SAN for Hyper-V 2012

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sammybendover
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Sun Jul 15, 2012 10:11 pm

Does the current version support Hyper-V 2012? I would be interested in testing if there is anything available, I have 2 hyper-v 2012 RC nodes in a cluster, and 1 fileserver. I am currently testing SMB 3 as well as microsoft iscsi target just to see how well it works. Each machine has a 4 port intel vt gigabit nic connected to a cisco 3750 switch.

I am also curious if the current or new version would incorporate SMB 3 at all? So far, it works well and is simple to use :)

I understand I would need to attach local storage to the hyper-v boxes, that is not a problem.
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Mon Jul 16, 2012 7:53 am

Hi,
Hyper-V 2012 isn't released yet so we can only claim that we work with all the beta and RCs available on the web.
Currently our QA didn't find any bugs in StarWind - Hyper-V compatibility, that's what I can say for sure :)
As for the SMB - StarWind does not incorporate any SMB features , instead we can make a fault tolerant iSCSI storage resource which can easily become a perfect underlying storage for Microsoft's SMB 3 - works well, is easy to use, yet it's also highly available.
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sammybendover
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Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:29 pm

Thanks for the answer, I appreciate it. I have no problem running iSCSI, i have a 4 port intel nic dedicated for each host, so i get pretty decent throughput with iSCSI and MPIO :)

If you need any testing done for the beta version, let me know :)
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Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:45 pm

Good!

Yes, beta is always a day left and a dollar short so please apply for it. Much appreciated!
sammybendover wrote:Thanks for the answer, I appreciate it. I have no problem running iSCSI, i have a 4 port intel nic dedicated for each host, so i get pretty decent throughput with iSCSI and MPIO :)

If you need any testing done for the beta version, let me know :)
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Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:11 pm

Is the native san included in the 5.9 beta?
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Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:40 pm

They are separate products.
sammybendover wrote:Is the native san included in the 5.9 beta?
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sammybendover
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Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:52 pm

is there a beta available for for native san to support hyper-v 2012? I should of clairified my question, thanks!
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Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:58 pm

Existing one should work on top of 2012 just fine.
sammybendover wrote:is there a beta available for for native san to support hyper-v 2012? I should of clairified my question, thanks!
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