Best practises - 2 ESX nodes and 1 Starwind node

Software-based VM-centric and flash-friendly VM storage + free version

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cphillips
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Fri Jun 01, 2018 2:22 pm

All,

I am about to build the following:
Physical box #1 - ESX 6.7
Physical box #2 - ESX 6.7

They will be controlled by VCSA.

I'd like to do shared storage and so have a dedicated 3rd physical box for Starwind vSAN Free Edition. It comprises of:
1 x SSD for Server 2016
10 x 1Tb SSD's for VM storage for ESX hosts above

No RAID setup, just the SSDs attached to a controller card and motherboard. This is for a home setup and data recoverability is preferred but not essential.

When setting up the SSD's are there best methods? I see there is the option to add them as physical disks and present that way or set them up as virtual volumes..

Any suggestions welcome!
Oleg(staff)
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Mon Jun 04, 2018 11:51 am

I would suggest you create virtual volumes from SSDs and present them into the cluster.
cphillips
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Mon Jun 04, 2018 8:46 pm

Oleg(staff) wrote:I would suggest you create virtual volumes from SSDs and present them into the cluster.
Thanks Oleg, I shall go that route. I've been doing some more reading since and there seems to be a lot of differences (all positive) for using virtual volumes!

I have had a mishap but will put up another post about that. :(

Thanks for your help.
Oleg(staff)
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Tue Jun 05, 2018 7:17 am

We are always ready to help you here.
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