Obgect storage as massive storage pool

[Lance]

Does any body have experience using VS with object storage?

We are interested in object storage for its massive capacity, data durability and low storage administration to build a large scale (> 10PB) data repository.

Thanks,

Lance

[anton (staff)]

We do have customers with a comparably high reported used capacities (biggest one is few PBs and there are hundreds in range of 50-100TB).

These are typically:

* Internet Service and Hosting Providers (mostly Xen)
* Databases (Oracle, SAP and some SQL Server)
* IP Surveillance (including pictures from satellites)

But...

StarWind is NOT object storage. Layering StarWind Virtual SAN on top of an object storage (like VMware Virtual SAN) is possible of course but what's the point in doing that?

Expose SMB3 or NFS or iSCSI uplink to VMs with a VMware Virtual SAN managed block storage below?

Does any body have experience using VS with object storage?

We are interested in object storage for its massive capacity, data durability and low storage administration to build a large scale (> 10PB) data repository.

Thanks,

Lance

[barrysmoke]

do you want massive storage, or specifically object storage?
starwind does massive storage just fine, but is a block based technology.

I don't read into his post that he wants to layer vmware virtual san on top of starwind...I think he abbreviated VS as starwind virtual san.
so, this is the main use case for starwind virtual san.
The only size limitation is on using lsfs, all other sizes for massive storage are limitless, using the examples above.
Thick gives you the ability to snapshot your luns.

just my 2 cents.

[anton (staff)]

Technically you can do vice versa - layer StarWind Virtual SAN on top of VMware Virtual SAN (if you need NFS, SMB and iSCSI to feed storage to to VDI profiles or outside VMware cluster).
There are some companies that do this already with their own solutions.

do you want massive storage, or specifically object storage?
starwind does massive storage just fine, but is a block based technology.

I don't read into his post that he wants to layer vmware virtual san on top of starwind...I think he abbreviated VS as starwind virtual san.
so, this is the main use case for starwind virtual san.
The only size limitation is on using lsfs, all other sizes for massive storage are limitless, using the examples above.
Thick gives you the ability to snapshot your luns.

just my 2 cents.

[barrysmoke]

that is interesting, I'll have to test that in the lab

[Anatoly (staff)]

Sounds good! We will appreciate if you will share the results with us as soon as you will have some.