HCI vendors: software or hardware
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https://mangolassi.it/topic/20187/hci-scale-starwind-etc-vm-layout
Who else am I missing?
I've only listed what I consider reasonably priced option's...no 6 figure, half million $ appliances!Software:
- oVirt/Red Hat
- Starwind vSAN
- VMware vSAN
- Datacore vSAN - @taurex
- XCP-ng with XO - @DustinB3403
Appliance:
- Starwind vSAN
- Scale HC3
- Simplivity - @Reid-Cooper
- vxRail - @Reid-Cooper
- Datacore HCI Flex - @taurex
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@FATeknollogee xcp-ng with XO.
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Simplivity
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DataCore's Hyper-Converged VSAN. Apparently quite reasonably-priced but I haven't heard much else about it.
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Doesn't HP have a software based VSAN as well?
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@dafyre said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
Doesn't HP have a software based VSAN as well?
They used to long ago, but it was phased out many years ago.
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@taurex said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
DataCore's Hyper-Converged VSAN. Apparently quite reasonably-priced but I haven't heard much else about it.
Took a quick look, I don't like that it's a 100% Windows even in its VMware flavor!
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@FATeknollogee said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
@taurex said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
DataCore's Hyper-Converged VSAN. Apparently quite reasonably-priced but I haven't heard much else about it.
Took a quick look, I don't like that it's a 100% Windows even in its VMware flavor!
Not sure what you mean.
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@scottalanmiller said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
@FATeknollogee said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
@taurex said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
DataCore's Hyper-Converged VSAN. Apparently quite reasonably-priced but I haven't heard much else about it.
Took a quick look, I don't like that it's a 100% Windows even in its VMware flavor!
Not sure what you mean.
Datacore vSAN in VMware ESXi is 2x Windows Server 201x vm's (not 2 Linux vm's)
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@FATeknollogee said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
@scottalanmiller said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
@FATeknollogee said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
@taurex said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
DataCore's Hyper-Converged VSAN. Apparently quite reasonably-priced but I haven't heard much else about it.
Took a quick look, I don't like that it's a 100% Windows even in its VMware flavor!
Not sure what you mean.
Datacore vSAN in VMware ESXi is 2x Windows Server 201x vm's (not 2 Linux vm's)
I see, it's not an appliance but you deploy Windows then install it?
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@scottalanmiller said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
@FATeknollogee said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
@scottalanmiller said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
@FATeknollogee said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
@taurex said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
DataCore's Hyper-Converged VSAN. Apparently quite reasonably-priced but I haven't heard much else about it.
Took a quick look, I don't like that it's a 100% Windows even in its VMware flavor!
Not sure what you mean.
Datacore vSAN in VMware ESXi is 2x Windows Server 201x vm's (not 2 Linux vm's)
I see, it's not an appliance but you deploy Windows then install it?
They actually have a PS script that automates the deployment of both Windows Server vms.
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Looking at the Starwind vSAN for vsphere notes: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resource-library/starwind-virtual-san-for-vsphere
You still need Windows to help "manage" the vsphere install...why?
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@FATeknollogee said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
Looking at the Starwind vSAN for vsphere notes: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resource-library/starwind-virtual-san-for-vsphere
You still need Windows to help "manage" the vsphere install...why?
Because the VSAN software is built to use Windows and Powershell to manage the supplied storage.
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@DustinB3403 said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
Because the VSAN software is built to use Windows and Powershell to manage the supplied storage.
Starwind vSAN for vSphere is 100% Linux?
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@FATeknollogee said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
@DustinB3403 said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
Because the VSAN software is built to use Windows and Powershell to manage the supplied storage.
Starwind vSAN for vSphere is 100% Linux?
I'm pretty positive it requires a windows guest to be supplied the storage, which then gets passed out to the hypervisor.
I would have to double check, but that rings a bell.
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@DustinB3403
from https://www.vladan.fr/starwind-vsan-for-vsphere-new-release/
StarWind Virtual SAN for vSphere -is a VMware-only Software-Defined-Storage stack. A ready-to-go Linux VM installs on the cluster nodes to share their storage resources.
Once installed, Virtual SAN creates a fault-tolerant storage pool available to the entire vSphere cluster. VSAN users get limitless virtualization capabilities in terms of features, storage capacity, and cost-efficiency. Enterprise-level functionality and performance are available in the infrastructure of your choice. -
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Looks like you can use Cockpit to do some stuff but you still need the Starwind Management Console (which is Windows) -
@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.
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@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.
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@FATeknollogee said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:
Correct, but you still need Windows to manage the Linux version...which makes no sense to me.
I reached out to Starwind & stand corrected.
Windows is not needed to manage Starwind VSAN for vSphere & KVM (upcoming, still in beta)
