Comments on: Storage Spaces Direct – What is S2D?

By: Retha

Retha — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:46:00 +0000

Great read, now following!

By: Nelle

Nelle — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 01:32:00 +0000

Very well worded!

By: Symon Perriman

Symon Perriman — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 21:47:00 +0000

In reply to mark. Hi Mark, The latest version of Altaro VM Backup supports ReFS. Here are the support requirements and guidelines. From: https://help.altaro.com/support/solutions/articles/43000483925-what-are-the-system-requirements-for-altaro-vm-backup-

File Level/Exchange Item Level Restore Requirements The partition must be NTFS/ReFS (through Instant Mount) (only for File Level) formatted The partition must be formatted as 'Basic' and not 'Dynamic'

Thank you, Symon Perriman Altaro Editor

By: Symon Perriman

Symon Perriman — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 21:47:00 +0000

In reply to Mark. Hi Mark, The latest version of Altaro VM Backup supports ReFS. Here are the support requirements and guidelines. From: https://help.altaro.com/support/solutions/articles/43000483925-what-are-the-system-requirements-for-altaro-vm-backup-

File Level/Exchange Item Level Restore Requirements The partition must be NTFS/ReFS (through Instant Mount) (only for File Level) formatted The partition must be formatted as 'Basic' and not 'Dynamic'

Thank you, Symon Perriman Altaro Editor

By: mark

mark — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 12:14:00 +0000

when will altaro support backing up storage spaces clusters formatted as REFS?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 06:27:00 +0000

When will Altaro support the backup of vms that are stored in storages spaces direct with refs formatted csv volumes?

By: Matt Fooks

Matt Fooks — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 07:45:00 +0000

A good high level overview of S2D it’s worth noting that in S2D 2019 Microsoft prefer iWarp RDMA rather than RoCE. Due it being easier to configure and troubleshoot.

By: Andy Syrewicze

Andy Syrewicze — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 19:26:00 +0000

In reply to Davy Pierson. Stay Tuned Next Week =)

By: Davy Pierson

Davy Pierson — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 09:17:00 +0000

Where’s part 2?

By: Mark Farrell

Mark Farrell — Tue, 22 May 2018 03:54:00 +0000

Hi Florian,

We have been using a 4-node S2D mirror cluster for the better part of a year now and we are particularly interested in how Altaro plays with this technology.

We have been using Altaro on this cluster which backs up our Windows/Linux VMs just fine. However when it comes to the restore process that is where we have had an ongoing issue. Boot from backup verification tasks work just fine but boot from backup recovery or standard restore tasks end up dying 5-20 minutes into the job. Restoring VM backups from the S2D cluster to conventional Hyper-V clusters or standalone hosts works fine so it is not a corruption issue. It only appears to affect restore operations from any Hyper-V host to the S2D cluster.

We’ve been working with Altaro support on this for some time and have ruled out networking, permissions and quite a few other potential causes. At this stage could you please provide some form of documentation that states whether Altaro actually supports S2D clusters for both backup and restore operations? As we have not been able to find anything on this. We have contacted support many times with various team members suggesting it should work but have never received a definitive “yes S2D is supported”.

Any information on this would be fantastic. We are currently using Altaro 7.6.23.1