NativeSAN & SSD

[vikeswin1]

If you were building a NativeSAN solution where would use SSD?

1. Host only?
2. CVS?
3. CACHE?

RAID 1, or 10 with SSD?

Also thoughts on overall reliability of SSD?

This would be running on W2K12.

Or please share with if you would use some SAS?

Thanks!

[anton (staff)]

Sure. Flash is the future, spindle is the past.

1) Hosts. We'll mirror flash drives to create a fault-toleran LUN
2) CSV is created by Windows / Hyper-V on top of a virtual LUN created by StarWind @ step 1 from above.
3) There's no flash cache with StarWind before V8

RAID1 we'll be done by StarWind between the nodes so don't mirror locally anything. 3-way cluster (3 nodes) with flash is recommended.

If you were building a NativeSAN solution where would use SSD?

1. Host only?
2. CVS?
3. CACHE?

RAID 1, or 10 with SSD?

Also thoughts on overall reliability of SSD?

This would be running on W2K12.

Or please share with if you would use some SAS?

Thanks!

[vikeswin1]

I'm assuming ssd raid 1, in a 2 node should be fine, as well.

[anton (staff)]

Yes except a bit on the expensive side.

I'm assuming ssd raid 1, in a 2 node should be fine, as well.