2 Node Free SAN via VM guest

Software-based VM-centric and flash-friendly VM storage + free version

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ccshfb
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Fri Jun 19, 2015 1:37 pm

Hello,
given the news that that the free 2node license can´t be install on bare metall hyper-v, but on a VM guest only I do have the following question:
disks for the HA SAN part (not OS, thats a local vhd(x)); passthru as multiple offline single disks or as a RAID Volume if you have a controller?
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Jhon_Smith
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Mon Jun 22, 2015 12:37 pm

They are passed as they were, but now you need 2 separate nodes for StarWind. This is the only change.
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Thu Jul 02, 2015 12:28 pm

1) You go bare metal now. for performance and simplify.

2) Two separate nodes (Free, unlimited does N) and build a failover "Shared nothing" SAN and NAS (SMB3 and NFSv4) from that. See updated free product page for details:

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwi ... l-san-free

Spice works users have access to H/C version still. We'll bring in MVPs and MCTs soon as well.
ccshfb wrote:Hello,
given the news that that the free 2node license can´t be install on bare metall hyper-v, but on a VM guest only I do have the following question:
disks for the HA SAN part (not OS, thats a local vhd(x)); passthru as multiple offline single disks or as a RAID Volume if you have a controller?
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Anton Kolomyeytsev

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Sat Jul 11, 2015 9:44 pm

Whole story for StarWind Virtual SAN Free here:

https://forums.starwindsoftware.com/vie ... 273#p24273
Regards,
Anton Kolomyeytsev

Chief Technology Officer & Chief Architect, StarWind Software

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