how to build StarWind VSAN with tiering

[oxyi]

Hi there,

We have been using Starwind for a while, we have all SATA 2TB drive setup right now in a 50 drives RAID60 unit.
I am going to put in a quad-port 10Gb card, and I have 2 nodes, could someone tell me what's the best practice for me to setup this unit?

I also want to do tiering, I am looking into putting in some Samsung 1tb pro drive, not enterprise, but they seems to have good MTBF. Would that be okay?
But in term of tiering, does that mean I would create a volume with raid 6 of all the SSD, and another volume with all 2tb drives, and maybe I will add in some new 4tb drives in the mix.
So in the end, I would have 3 different volumes and I just store the VM that I need to be fast in SSD volume, or is there some automated way for this ?

Thanks for the help!

[darklight]

You can use slower and faster spindles for different StarWind devices (and obviously VM disks) depending on their load requirements boosting both of them with L2 cache residing on SSDs. So both of the devices will basically function at SSD speed for reads and L1 RAM cache will do the job for writes.

[oxyi]

Oh, I thought tiering is having both types of drives, like for data storage I can put it on SATA drives, and for VM OS, I can save the image on SSD drvies.

From what you are saying, it is actually done thru caching, I suppose for L2 cache I can specified when I create the iSCSI target right ?
Sorry, it's been a while, I am still using v6

[darklight]

Hi Oxyi,

L2 cache is enabled during creating the target and device inside StarWind Management Console - that's right. And of course you need the latest v8 build to do that

[Vladislav (Staff)]

Thank you darklight!

oxyi, Is there anything else we can help you with?