Hello,
I am planning on testing StarWind VSA, I have a few questions though:
1. As I want a big all-flash setup (6TB+ each server), I was wondering if there are any consequences not using local raid on each server? As you will understand, such big SSD SAS/NVMe disks are really expensive. I already searched the forum regarding this and I know RAID-1 over network is possible, but I'm not sure if there are any other caveats.
2. How would I need to license the nodes (2) regarding Windows Server 2016? If I have 38 cores in each server, would I need to license them both or only one?
3. Regarding hardware to choose: if I have a given VM environment which would require a given amount of resources of RAM/vCPU/IOPS, should I split those resources over 2 nodes or do I need to have the same amount of resources on 2 nodes? I know that if you split the resources and 1 node would fail, it would stress the node which is live, but my question is only regarding the scenario when both nodes are live.
Thanks in advance.
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