Thanks Boris.

First question - my disk setup will be 10 x 1Tb SSD's. As my main storage will be SSD, is it worth setting up any caching (I could use one or two of the 10 SSD's) in front of the main storage arrays?

Not sure if putting SSD in front of SSD will have any effect!?

I've decided to wipe the disks and recreate my storage array. Have determined there is no data on there that I need to keep!

I'll be setting up Starwind using Virtual Volumes this time, not flat disks as previously!!

All, I have been tinkering with Starwind and setup a set of 5 SSD's (1Tb each) for some storage. I then set up a datastore in ESX using these datastores - I increased the datastore by adding the extents to it so it comprised of 5x1Tb SSD's. This evening, I turned the machine off to install some addi...

I would suggest you create virtual volumes from SSDs and present them into the cluster. Thanks Oleg, I shall go that route. I've been doing some more reading since and there seems to be a lot of differences (all positive) for using virtual volumes! I have had a mishap but will put up another post a...

All, I am about to build the following: Physical box #1 - ESX 6.7 Physical box #2 - ESX 6.7 They will be controlled by VCSA. I'd like to do shared storage and so have a dedicated 3rd physical box for Starwind vSAN Free Edition. It comprises of: 1 x SSD for Server 2016 10 x 1Tb SSD's for VM storage f...