I wonder why you read good (Cheers David! Hope to see you again in Seattle this year on MVP Summit) but scenario limited blogs from other guys and skip using our own ones where we spent an ENORMOUS amount of time to investigate Storage Replica. Here:
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/
All set of scenarios: Failover Cluster (Generic File Server), Failover Cluster (Scale-Out File Server), Hyper-V Cluster with HA VMs and Hyper-V Cluster with Guest VM Cluster. All-4
Making long story short: Storage Replica is a Disaster Recovery solution and it's not designed to replace Virtual SAN.
Microsoft has another technology called Storage Spaces Shared Nothing and it is indeed (with a combination of Scale-Out File Server) has to do something with StarWind Virtual SAN. But Storage Spaces Shared Nothing do start with a 4 nodes
at least (StarWind can do 2 and 3 just fine) and does not support Hyper-Converged scenario (at least now) so 4 turns into 6 nodes (at least) immediately. Reasonably - 8.
See very good explanation by Elden Christiansen here:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Fo ... verPreview
"On the topic of Storage Replica scenarios, I also want to be very clear that Storage Replica is designed to be a disaster recovery solution. It is not designed nor intended to be a solution to build low cost clusters without shared storage (as implied in some of the other responses). We have a different solution for that scenario of using DAS, which is called Shared Nothing Storage Spaces. If you are familiar with VMware vSAN, Shared Nothing Storage Spaces will unlock those same scenarios. Such as leveraging internal DAS drives without any external shared storage, and unlocking the economics of low cost SATA drives. So it's important to understand the scenario, and which solution is best for the scenario. Stay tuned for more information coming soon on Shared Nothing Storage Spaces in Windows Server Technical Preview 2.
Thanks!
Elden"
Storage Spaces Shared Nothing have other very serious drawbacks but they are very technical and I'm also under strict NDA not to discuss them with non-NDA guys. Sorry about that
Good luck!
HALi wrote:Hello,
I read about the new Hyper-V Feature in Windows Server 10 named Storage Replica --> "Hardware agnostic, with no requirement to immediately abandon legacy storage such as SANs."
http://clusteringformeremortals.com/201 ... windows10/
Is that the end of StarWind for native Hyper-V Clusters with local storage?
What do you plan to be not displaced from the market ?
Best regards
