Virtual SAN Free Question

[arishtech]

This set up is for a testing lab. In lab I have two hypervisors, one with hyper-v and one esxi. Idea is to basically play with both platforms.
Is it possible to use Virtual SAN free edition between the esxi and hyper-v machines? From the drawing on the demo video on the site it seems that StarWind software can work cross platform like that.
Obviously I cant do vmotion/CSV in this mixed environment (until I buy a second esxi box which is planned later this year). I need this mainly to create some redundant replicating iSCSI luns for a few upcoming windows failover clustering VMs.

-arishtech

[anton (staff)]

1) It's a bad idea to use Free versions for tests. Use Trial as it has no features locked (Free cannot do Scale-Out, cannot do VTL and is bounded to Hyper-Converged model with only one hypervisor @ a time: Hyper-V or vSphere).

2) It's not supported to feed storage for outside the hypervisor cluster. While you may find a way to do it we'll be looking forward banning out this functionality as we believe this being production setup, something EMC targets with their ScaleIO (4+ hosts and heterogenous environments).

This set up is for a testing lab. In lab I have two hypervisors, one with hyper-v and one esxi. Idea is to basically play with both platforms.
Is it possible to use Virtual SAN free edition between the esxi and hyper-v machines? From the drawing on the demo video on the site it seems that StarWind software can work cross platform like that.
Obviously I cant do vmotion/CSV in this mixed environment (until I buy a second esxi box which is planned later this year). I need this mainly to create some redundant replicating iSCSI luns for a few upcoming windows failover clustering VMs.

-arishtech