Windows Server 2025 with NetApp SolidFire

I wrote about Windows Server 2025 here.

Anyway, since I've already installed the same product again, there's another update so I'll blog about that as well.

What we're dealing with? A Windows Server 2025 VM (this specific build, if you're curious) I installed for this purpose. And a NetApp SolidFire 12.5.0.897 (demo VM).

To test, I created two SolidFire volumes, one with 512e and one with native 4096 sector size, and added them to a VAG. Then on Windows iSCSI client I added SolidFire SVIP to Discovery portals and refreshed iSCSI client.

When logging in, although both volumes ought to be accessible due to their VAG membership, I specifically tried unidirectional CHAP on one of them and multi-pathing was enabled (although there's just one path to SVIP). That worked fine.

Result:

Then I onlined the volumes and created a file-system on each - one ReFS and another NTFS - using the default allocation unit size for each.

It all worked as expected. (Volume labels (512e, 4096) is just my tag to be able to tell which is which.)

So…. still no changes that matter, and last year's review was more detailed and involved automation and SQL Server, so Windows Server 2025 with SolidFire 12.5 (or newer) looks reasonably safe.