@scottalanmiller said in HCI vendors: software or hardware: @DustinB3403 said in HCI vendors: software or hardware: I'm pretty positive it requires a windows guest to be supplied the storage, which then gets passed out to the hypervisor. It used to be Windows based. Correct, but you still need Windows to manage the Linux version...which makes no sense to me.

@FATeknollogee said in HCI (Scale, Starwind etc): vm layout: @PhlipElder said in HCI (Scale, Starwind etc): vm layout: I'm not sure what "Hyper-V partition" means. I meant to say the host o/s partition. I kinda gathered that is what it meant. Thanks for clarifying.

@FATeknollogee said in StarWind HCA is one of the 10 coolest HCI systems of 2019 (so far): @scottalanmiller said in StarWind HCA is one of the 10 coolest HCI systems of 2019 (so far): KVM is definitely supported, talked to management in the last twelve hours. Just not advertised. Any specific reason for the non-advertisement of KVM? Not a sales priority.

@Oksana That's really awesome!

@marcinozga said in Reaching manhood - StarWind is included in Gartner Magic Quadrant!: How much did you pay to get there? Probably less than they pay for these unpaid ads... I mean self-promotional posts.

@RojoLoco said in Microsoft S2D vs StarWind VSAN: See what clients say about true hyperconvergence: @DustinB3403 how would their sales drones bug you if they just put the info here???? They already have my information and they actually don't nag me. What does irk me is that every time I do want to read one of these I have to register or login to see the information.

@coliver said in Reaching manhood - StarWind is included in Gartner Magic Quadrant!: How much money did you guys pay to get in there? And why? Being listed on Gartner is an active disincentive to any rational person.

@scottalanmiller said in What do you think of my hypothetical HCI: @tim_g said in What do you think of my hypothetical HCI: Why not just use two or three Hyper-V Server 2016 nodes and StarWind vSAN? That seems like a whole lot easier, cheaper, and way more effective. And you totally missed "massively safer." Better storage, and way fewer moving pieces to fail. Yeah that too of course! That was bundled into the "way more effective" bit.

@minion-queen said in Upgrade your outdated hardware with StarWind HyperConverged Appliance: @coliver said in Upgrade your outdated hardware with StarWind HyperConverged Appliance: @tim_g said in Upgrade your outdated hardware with StarWind HyperConverged Appliance: No public pricing means they try to squeeze out as much as possible on a per-customer basis. I'm guessing heavy commission based sales. That's unfortunate. GroveMarketPlace is reselling StarWind we can get you pricing. Just email me [email protected] No MSRP without contacting someone means no business from me.

Is that different than hardware defined storage? It has all those issues, too.