Glad to hear that Elvis. Enjoy!

L2 cache is stable and fully production ready.
Performance is still debatable sometimes.

According to the best practices, you will have to get 1TB SSD space for L2 caching. 10xSAS are already quite fast (moreover in RAID0) and I would say it is not necessary right now but might be considered later when you will need to quickly boost your existing performance.

Yes, you have to use 512B block size, otherwise, ESX will not be able to work with it. Some more information is here: https://knowledgebase.starwindsoftware. ... lock-size/

Ha-ha-ha MRose No, it means we are expecting it to be released in March

In the case of 3 node configuration, you can surely go with RAID0. You will get an incredible storage performance while redundancy is granted by having 3 mirrored copies of your data provided by StarWind.

StarWind Virtual SAN Free can be installed only on the physical machine running Windows OS (2012 R2 is highly recommended). So if you plan to go with dedicated setup, you should be fine. In the case of CentOS, you can try to run StarWind inside a VM. Obviously, you will need KVM in order to do this ...

Thank you very much for your time and help, darklight.

Jdemuynck, should you have any further questions, do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you very much for your time and help, darklight.

Jdemuynck, should you have any further questions, do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you for your contribution, darklight.

Any other questions left here?

Nice conclusions, darklight.

Anything else I can help here with?

Exactly, darklight.

WB on L2 is coming soon. We are all waiting for it Stay tuned!

Thanks, darklight.

Any further information needed?

No problem, take your time and come back again with an interesting update

Thanks guys!

Any questions left here?