thank you, i appreciate your response and sharing the status of the product. I guess its very hard to find an easy off the shelf open source / free solution for a small homelab like mine that has all of these features. Hopefully in the future vSAN Free may be able to fill the gap - my other solution...

Hi, should I deduct from the silence that either of these conditions are true? - starwind vSAN free does not support deduplication - starwind vSAN free does not support RDMA - starwind does not offer a "how to" guide on testing and verifying RDMA performance using https://www.starwindsoftw...

Are there any guides or articles on configuring and using deduplicated nvme storage with RDMA networking for proxmox hosts? I have found guides on installing vSAN Free as a proxmox VM. However, little to no information seems to exist on: - how to enable and use data deduplication in vSAN Free (on nv...

thanks for the reply.

> newer NVMe-oF solutions

Which filesystem do these NVME-oF solutions employ? I thought NVME-oF is more about a transmission protocol than the underlying filesystem but this is the first i hear of it. so curious

Hi, does StarWind vSAN Free come with ZFS 2.3.0 which included many improvements in deduplication with `fastdedup` and nvme skipping l2arc? I would like to test vSAN and compare it to native proxmox using the same file system version, there already is a way to get zfs 2.3.1 in proxmox: https://forum...

Hi, I'm testing vSAN FREE Proxmox KVM image and struggling to find any recent documentation on: - Deduplication - ZFS implementation - Optimizations for iSCSI and/or NFS Reddit for example links to a best practices document written in 2019 - where vSAN had Structured Log caching (for some reason it ...