Key changes between FileFly 2 and 3

The 3.0 release of FileFly has significant differences from the 2.1 release.

For complete details, see FileFly 3.0 Release Notes and FileFly 3.1 Release Notes.

Licensing

• Licenses for version 2 are NOT compatible with version 3 software

• Newly created licenses are NOT compatible with previous versions of the software

• Software no longer expires at a set date

• Global Licensing Service, provides:

  • Online enforcement

  • Automatic push of updated licenses

• Licensed capacity quota measured by amount of data migrated

• Licenses are no longer locked-down to specific Swarm clusters

Stub deletion monitoring

In release 3.0, stub deletion monitoring is no longer a global Boolean (true) but is changed to be per volume:

Community Edition limitations

The free Community Edition of FileFly 3.0 is a subset of the full edition. Note these differences:

• It does not include technical support.

• It does not include DrTools.