ello everyone,
I would like to buy Starwind VSAN but before I am doing a test lab with the FREE version.
I have two servers with the following configuration:
- RAM: 128 GB
- Network cards:
- 2 x 10GB for management
- 2 x 40GB for iSCSI / Heartbeat
- 2 x 40GB for synchronization
- Storage VMs VMwware + Files:
- 2x SSD 6.4Tb NVMe (Storage Space - Hot Tier - Mirror)
- 3 x HDD 10TB 12GB / s SAS (Storage Space - Cold Tier - Parity)
- Storage Backups:
- 4 x HDD 10TB 12GB / s SAS (RAID5 Hardware)
Here's what I would like to do:
1) Make on the 2 servers, a tiered mirror storage pool with 2 SSD NVMe and 2 HDD 10TB.
On the # 1 server storage pool, configure a Starwind HA image (with server # 2) + a simple Starwind image.
On the storage pool of Server # 2, configure a Starwind HA image (with server # 1) + a simple Starwind image.
Should we use the Write Back Cache of microsoft or use the L1 cache starwind for the 2 images. In both cases how much quantity needed?
The virtual disk must be in NTFS or ReFS?
2) For the backup part, I would like to do on each of the servers, a RAID5 with 4 x HDD 10 TB then create a simple image Starwind accelerate with a lot of cache L1 (ex: 70 GB). I have Veeam Backup doing a backup on the first server and a backup on the second server. 3rd backup copy on HPE Storonce VSA or Starwind VTL.
If not, am I good or not?
Thanks in advance.
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