Starwind Hyper-V for vSphere

[KPS]

Hi!

I want to use Starwind as Storage for vSphere, but not Hyperconverged.
To avoid Windows-CALs for Linux VMs, I thought about:

- Install 2 Hyper-V-Server (instead of Windows 2016)
- Install Starwind on them as HA-Storage and export iSCSI
- Use this iSCSI-Storage with vSphere

--> No Windows CALs, as free Hyper-V is used
--> No Hypervisor that could limit Performance

Is this a supported setup?

Thank you and best wishes
KPS

[Boris (staff)]

Technically, this scenario is possible. Yet, you might need to additionally inquire for the licensing limitations (if any) of such scenario based on the Hyper-v Server serving not as a hypervisor.

[KPS]

Hi Boris!

Thank you for your answer!
So there is no limitation for Starwind and you can sell commercial support for this scenario - the only concernes are about Microsoft-licensing - right?

I checked this with my MS-Licensing-specialist and it seems to be a possible solution as Free-Hyper-V does not need any CALs

[Oleg(staff)]

Yes, you are right.