Anyone have any experience with Starwind’s vSan in the enterprise? What was the stability like and would you use it again? Migrating away from VMWare
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Their stuff is fine and reliable. They have a free option for evaluation, but they ended up not meeting my works needs and we ended up going with another vendor. Mainly due to the fact our ISO runs a strict IRM process and it failed to meet some different regulatory hurdles. From what I could tell their stuff is fine for most business environments.
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Thanks for your input.
The reason is, I have a client that is running a 2 node KMV environment but I can’t convince them to get a third node for a dedicated shared storage between the two nodes. Trying to get some clustering going on and looking for virtual san alternatives so if you have some vendor recommendation I am all ears.
I assume you mean KVM(Kernel-based Virtual Machine). For those we just linked in an SMB share from Unraid and backing them up via Proxmox. Not entirely sure what your storage needs are and budget. But you could purchase a S3 from someone like amazon or Linode/Akami and it should meet your needs.
Yeah sorry I ended up typing that response on my phone but yes I did mean KVM. Any noticeable performance penalties with the AWS setup you’ve experienced?
All good. It happens to the best of us lol
Saw minimal performance impacts in testing, but our network infrastructure is extremely robust( multiple 100 Gbps tunnels). Overall a 3-2-1 backup method is preferable. I.e. local NAS/SAN handles the upload to the S3, while your local hardware only worries about the SAN/NAS. But obviously you have to meet customer cost needs. I don’t think you’d have many issues with amazon, but Amazon does have a free tier which you can use for evaluation.
StarWind is stable, and it works well if it’s configured according to their best practices and support recommendations. Since it was first designed as a Windows app for Hyper-V clusters, it’s very well-polished for that setup.
If you are looking to migrate to Proxmox, StarWind has a Linux CVM that can create HA storage for a PVE cluster.
Speaking about the support – they are responsive and know what they do.