StarWind Software

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

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.

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

Yes, you are right.