2-Node VSAN with Hyper-V and NVMe Storage

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RichardParrySC
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Fri Oct 23, 2020 10:29 am

Hello, We primarily deploy traditional virtualisation environments using Hyper-V or ESXI using either systems running local storage or shared storage. Easy stuff.

We'd like to explore StarWind (we've done some internal demos and happy with it) but would like to future proof the systems we deploy, either for our own use or what we resell as solutions to our customers. What we're often asked for is fast NVMe storage.

Is it possible, with a 2-Node setup of StarWind VAN, running purely in a Hyper-V environment to use NVMe storage on each node? We would not be looking at VROC, so would like to use Storage Spaces to achieve the desired RAID 10 level on each node. Is this an acceptable (tried and tested specifically) way to do this? I assume the way to do this would be;

1) Install Windows 2019 Server on server - we're suggesting a single NVMe M.2 drive for the boot of the OS/Hypervisor
2) Setup Storage Spaces to create a RAID 10 pool on roughly 8x NVMe U.2 hot-swap drives.
3) Install StarWind VSAN and follow steps to do this as usual, choosing the newly created storage space virtual drive as the shared storage.
4) Repeat on the second node etc.

We're also looking at doing this on AMD EPYC based hardware. We often normally use Intel, but would like to explore the ability to use AMD due to price and NVMe suitability out the box, which is more difficult/less available solutions than with Intel.


Thank you.
yaroslav (staff)
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Mon Oct 26, 2020 4:59 am

Greetings,

Yes, you can use NVMe in RAID built with Storage Spaces or just as pass-through disks.
If you are going to become our reseller, please contact support@starwind.com to work on this setup together. Use this forum thread as a reference.
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