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Windows 2012 Support

Arcserve RHA Full System scenarios support MS Windows 2012. The support includes ReFS, Data Deduplication, and Storage Space. You can select MS Windows 2012 as a master or appliance. However, the following limitations exist:

• If you use Windows 2012 as a master server to create a Full System HA/AR scenario, then the virtual platform must support Windows 2012 also. For example be ESXi 5.1 or Hyper-V 3.0.
• When you use Windows 2012 as a master server to create a Full System DR scenario and the virtual platform does not support Windows 2012 (for example, ESX 4.0), the start VM command fails. The virtual machine is created but it cannot start as the operating system is Windows 2012.
• Volume synchronization is not supported with ReFS volumes. For a full system scenario, if the master is on the ReFS volume, then the volume synchronization is disabled.
• Some NTFS attributes are not supported by ReFS. When you create a scenario that replicates from NTFS to ReFS, then you might encounter errors while replicating events related to these NTFS attributes.
• Data integrity on the storage pool created by storage space is ensured, the Full system scenario does not retain the storage space settings.