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FalseTB wrote:I really wish the phrasing were worded differently. Physical Machine made me incorrectly assume that it would work on Hyper-V 2012 R2. Not the server OS with the Role/Feature installed. Pretty upsetting, we have an entire project centered around Hyper-V 2012 R2, and this was really going to help us out until we get our Microsoft VLA in line so that we can start using 2012 R2 (and beyond).
The Free vs Paid PDF is also a little difficult to understand in that regard. I don't want you guys giving the farm away by any means, but I think there could be a little more clarification here, especially since it has changed.
Yeah you have got it right.tekowalsky wrote:Follow up, to the question, I asked, in April. (It's been a busy year!)
The scenario, I asked about, was "Compute and Storage Separated", with the "compute" side (a 2 node Hyper-V cluster) accessing the "storage" side (a 2 node StarWind Virtual SAN Free cluster), via iSCSI. The unsupported piece, in this scenario, when using StarWind Virtual SAN Free, appears to be iSCSI(?)
If I understand, SMB3 shares, from the StarWind storage cluster, to a separate Hyper-V compute cluster, are supported, when using StarWind Virtual SAN Free.
Is this correct?
dragonsen wrote:So when you say "2 node StarWind Virtual SAN Free cluster", can the nodes be virtual appliance running on hyper-v or is this simply referring to your software installed on two physical Windows server OS? My problem with that is that I don't have two licenses for Windows server. have been hunting for a cheap or free way to have a ha storage cluster. Thought I could do it with freenas but am starting to see why for one, it can't do failover, and may not be such a great solution anyway. Really had some high hopes in all this zfs talk. But what I gather if I want to implement Starwind free is that I essentially just need 4 servers, 2 for compute (hyper-v), 2 for storage. I'm just not clear on what that storage cluster looks like. From what I am reading it cannot be virtualized because that is considered hyper-converged?