Hello StarWind team. I am interested in using StarWind Virtual SAN Free in my vmware 6.7 single server environment. I have about 10 SSD's in the server and its setup as Raid-6 with array controller.
Its a Dell server with 2 CPU's w/12 CPU's per socket. 512GB Ram, 4x 1GB nics.
My goal is to reduce storage footprint by using compression/dedupe and also increase storage performance for the vm's. I understand its a single server so my resiliency is 0 but its a small environment so its acceptable for now as long as after esxi or vsan vm crash and reboot the data is not lost.
I am struggling to find how to or step by step instructions on how to install the free version in my environment. I understand the free version is installed on windows host so I will have to spin up a VM but how do I attach storage to the vsan vm? rdm or just disk in vmfs? ram for the vm? cpu? as much info as I can would be greatly appreciated. again my goal is to get performance from storage and reduce storage usage in the server. thank you,
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