Hey folks! I'm curious to hear if anyone has used StarWind VSAN for achieving high availability in a storage setup, especially when working with two servers that have local drives while using KVM. Any thoughts or experiences you could share?
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I've used StarWind for both Hyper-V and HCI and it's way better than S2D in my opinion. It's essential for Hyper-V clustering! I've managed to use both HBA cards and RAID setups with it, and they both performed really well. Had to make the switch because one of the RAID cards I used didn't work with S2D, but StarWind had me up and running in no time.
I've been using the free version for about a year now. It took a bit to get set up since the free version is largely for monitoring, and you have to rely on PowerShell scripts for configurations. But overall, it's been super reliable! I'm running it on two HPE servers in a Hyper-V cluster and it works nicely.
Did you set up the VSAN on both servers? Like running two VMs?
Did you use an HBA card or a RAID controller for this setup?
Thanks! I think it should work fine with KVM too. I'm unsure whether to go HBA for pure setup which could cause OS issues or use a RAID controller that can create RAID1 for the OS and possibly RAID 6 or un-RAID for the others. It's not a pure HBA, but it might balance things out.