new to vsan/starwind

lenovo2 · Mon Aug 11, 2014 3:37 pm

hi all,

I'm new to vsan/starwind. Unfortunately I don't have budget for the new san until next year, for sure I'm going to use starwind. So for now I would like to test starwind on one esxi, is it totally free to use the free-version?

Thanks.

Mon Aug 11, 2014 9:09 pm

Yes, free is free. I don't see any point in using StarWind Virtual SAN with just one VMware box however. Technically you need to have a cluster to get benefits from shared storage.

lenovo2 wrote:hi all,

I'm new to vsan/starwind. Unfortunately I don't have budget for the new san until next year, for sure I'm going to use starwind. So for now I would like to test starwind on one esxi, is it totally free to use the free-version?

Thanks.

lenovo2 · Tue Aug 12, 2014 2:31 am

I am using it on my windows 7 right now... It's stable and even give high IOPS than my hp4500g2, amazing. I'm going to buy the tray, transfer the disk on my hp dl380 and see what happens.

Thanks.

Tue Aug 12, 2014 7:28 am

Doable and working but I would not say it's a production-style scenario...

lenovo2 wrote:I am using it on my windows 7 right now... It's stable and even give high IOPS than my hp4500g2, amazing. I'm going to buy the tray, transfer the disk on my hp dl380 and see what happens.

Thanks.