Thanks for the reply Anton. One last question. It's not a flaw-by-design or missing feature as you think now, it's just a different set of concepts StarWind is built with. Let me clarify on that :) 5) DOES NOT distribute data between many nodes (replication Vs. erasure coding) --> WHILE ERASURE CODI...

Interesting. Most software defined SAN solutions (Good example: EMC's ScaleIO, VMware VSAN) these days are moving away from the hardware raid requirement and are dealing directly with individual disks and handling data protection at a software defined layer, thus being completely hardware independen...

I'm looking to move our backup cluster away from ZFS, to a Hyper-Converged StarWind set-up with VMware so that we can also use it for some development/testing as our backup performance needs are quite low. We have 2x SuperMicro servers with non-raid HBA's in them (LSI 9207-8e) each connected to a st...