vSphere Storage appliance vs 2x Win Servers + Starwind

[lohelle]

I'm thinking of using 2 x Starwind servers on a 2-node HA cluster in stead of the vSphere Storage Appliance that the customer have planned.
I would think the Starwind approach would be safer AND give better performance ? I do not trust the VSA, and Starwind trouble will be much easier to troubleshoot I think.

Any thoughts?

[anton (staff)]

Havind stand-alone storage servers with a 2-way replica is safer as you can have 2 nodes (hypervisor and storage) being down with whole cluster still being up.
Something VSA cannot do (unless pure 3-way replica deployed).

We'll release own VSA for VMware pretty soon so you'll be able to select from both implementations.

P.S. Actually running storage virtualization stack side-by-side with VM hypervisor has it's benefits.

I'm thinking of using 2 x Starwind servers on a 2-node HA cluster in stead of the vSphere Storage Appliance that the customer have planned.
I would think the Starwind approach would be safer AND give better performance ? I do not trust the VSA, and Starwind trouble will be much easier to troubleshoot I think.

Any thoughts?

[lohelle]

This is on a boat, and the available space is only 2U (+ power/cooling limitations)
So 2 x virtual SW SANs is the best option with the limited options I think.

[anton (staff)]

It's not the smallest device with the smallest space

This is on a boat, and the available space is only 2U (+ power/cooling limitations)
So 2 x virtual SW SANs is the best option with the limited options I think.

[Max (staff)]

Consider water cooling in this case, your benefit is the biggest heatsink in the world
I would vote for StarWind, but we need just a little bit more time until we're ready with the VSA.
Just curious: why is Hyper-V not a fit for this task?

[lohelle]

vSphere is company policy..

[anton (staff)]

No big deal.

I can fix that too! (c) ...

vSphere is company policy..