HomerTheGeek Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 With the impending release of Server 2016 Essentials what is the way ahead for DrivePool? I am currently (happily) running drivepool on server essentials 2012 R2 and am looking to upgrade to 2016 when it releases. Any idea on compatibility issues? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 It's running the same kernel as Windows 10. So, basically, no compatibility issues. It should run fine. Tested in on the latest Preview builds and appeared to work fine. And works fine on Windows 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 HomerTheGeek Posted September 3, 2016 Author Share Posted September 3, 2016 Will it work with ReFS or only with NTFS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted September 3, 2016 Share Posted September 3, 2016 Will it work with ReFS or only with NTFS? Yes and no. You can find more info about it here: http://community.covecube.com/index.php?/topic/598-plans-for-refs-support/ Basically, the public beta *does* support ReFS, but only preliminary (it was added for testing). It supports mixed pools, but we DO plan on removing that in the future (as the file systems are *not* feature parity). Additionally, there are additional features that we would like to add that would make it really worth to use ReFS. Again, not fully tested or implemented, but we do have a number of users using ReFS already without any (obvious) issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 HomerTheGeek Posted September 4, 2016 Author Share Posted September 4, 2016 Thank you, I look forward to simply bringing my pool back online on the new server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted September 4, 2016 Share Posted September 4, 2016 You're very welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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With the impending release of Server 2016 Essentials what is the way ahead for DrivePool? I am currently (happily) running drivepool on server essentials 2012 R2 and am looking to upgrade to 2016 when it releases.
Any idea on compatibility issues?
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