That was just what I was looking for.. Thanks!

Just installed the demo of Starwind and deployed a couple of VM's, just wondering is there a way to thin provision virtual disks? I have a 40gb vm for instance that only utilizes 8gb, is there way to create a virtual disk that is 40 gb and have it grow with the utilization? I tried checking compress...

thanks for the help everybody, how much ram would you recommend for optimal performance.

Also we are ordering this box to test the 30 day trial of starwind. We intend on getting a second box later on, is there an upgrade path from Enterprise to Enterprise HA?

I guess I'm a bit paranoid but I'm also considering the following from Dell. PE R510 8 147 gb 15k SAS (for the ISCSI targets) 2 147 gb 10k SAS (For Raid 1 OS and starwind) 1 E5503 XEON 8GB ram I'm thinking about setting up a 4 drive Raid 10 array for our SBS 2008 and putting the remaining 4 into RAI...

The SD card is Dell SD I think it's purpose is for embedded ESXi or hyper-v, I didn't know if we could for instance run a copy of Windows 2008 from a 32gb SD card and use all 8 drives for the ISCSI target. Essentially though, a RAID array can't run the OS and starwind and also be an iSCSI target. Su...

So after some additional research. I think we are going to get the following. Poweredge R710 1x Intel E5502 8GB RAM 8 x 147 GB 15k SAS drives PERC 6/I Internal SD card Redundant power supply Our initial plan is to order one of these and use it to host our VM's. Can your Starwind install and OS go on...

I've been lurking this forum for a few days now doing research and just wanted to get some opinions and experience. Our company recently deployed Vsphere essentials and virtualized the following servers: SBS 2008 (running 26 users or so with growth over the next 5 years maybe putting us at 40 max) 0...