Figured it out. Even though I was telling the new virtual disk to go to P:\, Starwind had a default Storage Pool entry of C:\Storage and was attempting to put the new device there rather than P:\. After I changed the default Storage Pool location to P:\ then I could create the thick provisioned virt...

Am I just dumb? I have a 705GB vDisk created on my Windows 2012 server out of my Storage Spaces Storage Pool. I attempt to create a device in Starwind v8 Beta and point it at P: (where the vDisk is mounted) and try to create a 700GB thick provisioned virtual disk. "Not enough disk space." ...

Awesome!

Has VAAI been re-enabled in v8?

Really? Blaze ahead? StarWind had offered native hypervisor supported SAN in 2011 two years before VMware is still in beta. So I'm not sure who's egg and who's chicken. Beta build is passing final verificaion so you'll have it very soon. Not "blaze ahead," I said "forge ahead." ...

Sorry for the delay guys! We still need some time to improve our product to the point, where it gonan rock realy hard. We just don`t want to give you the Geely instead of Ferrari. Thanks for your patience. I'm eagerly looking forward to the release, but, no offense, we've been hearing this same lin...

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Is that the ETA for the beta or general release?