I am trying to build out a 2 node HA StarWind storage system. Here is the hardware...
2 identical recent HP servers with 8 x 1.9TB enterprise SSD's and 8 x 3.8TB enterprise SSD's each, 256GB of RAM, 2 x 40Gb sync network, and 4 x 10Gb iSCSI network
Based on what I am reading I could do a 7 drive RAID 5 with a spare and another 7 drive RAID 5 with a spare on each node. I am trying to minimize wear on the SSD's but still have very fast performance for Hyper-V cluster VMs. Should I do standard flat images for presenting storage, or is there a benefit to LSFS? I would like the ability to do snapshots, but am concerned about reliability with LSFS. If LSFS would be better for performance or other reasons, should I configure with or without deduplication?
Thanks!
Kurt
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