Open Storage Operating Systems for SAM-SD
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@MattSpeller said:
@scottalanmiller said:
A caveat on Windows is that the OS level software RAID is considered poor and should be avoided. It is the only
enterprise server OS at this time without an adequate software RAID system.Anyone ever hear of them actually moving to fix this? Is it just that anyone with enough machines to warrant "serious" software RAID already runs some other OS? I'd love to get a box setup and not have to pay though the nose for a good RAID card.
In theory, Storage Spaces will be a software RAID replacement on Windows, but it will take time to determine if this is true and how well this works. Microsoft has little reason to do software RAID as the abundance of hardware RAID for people running Windows makes this unnecessary and decades of training the Windows market that software RAID is a bad idea would make them look pretty silly at this point. Plus hardware vendors would be crushed if their market suddenly dried up.
The reality is is that it is more a cultural thing than a technical one that drives hardware RAID in the Windows ecosystem.
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@MattSpeller said:
I'd love to get a box setup and not have to pay though the nose for a good RAID card.
Just don't use Windows or run Windows on top of Xen or KVM so you get Linux MD RAID with a Windows OS.
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@donaldlandru said:
Good timing on this (I might create a separate topic on this) we are contemplating buying HP StoreVirtual (lefthand) vs rolling out own zfs based solution.
Start a thread, plenty to discuss there.
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Added Fedora as it often makes more sense than CentOS today.
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@scottalanmiller said in Open Storage Operating Systems for SAM-SD:
Why Windows?
Windows is, along with Solaris, the most expensive option on this list. Rather unique in being non-free. But with the excellent features that it provides for the right scenario it can easily be the best choice, especially if your needs are for SMB 3 support.which feature set/role is required for a windows NAS? this is what comes with hyper-v server 2016 (which is free). also you can now put starwind free on it and get a free non supported OS/application.
[never used just asking out of curiosity]
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@matteo-nunziati said in Open Storage Operating Systems for SAM-SD:
@scottalanmiller said in Open Storage Operating Systems for SAM-SD:
Why Windows?
Windows is, along with Solaris, the most expensive option on this list. Rather unique in being non-free. But with the excellent features that it provides for the right scenario it can easily be the best choice, especially if your needs are for SMB 3 support.which feature set/role is required for a windows NAS? this is what comes with hyper-v server 2016 (which is free). also you can now put starwind free on it and get a free non supported OS/application.
[never used just asking out of curiosity]
Yeah, but it isn't licensed for that. What "comes with" Hyper-V is way more than what your licensed to use. There is certainly a little bit of grey area there, but using Hyper-V as a SAN platform is widely accepted as not an option by the EULA. Hyper-V is allowed only to be used for the purpose of hosting VMs on top of itself and the software necessary to do that, which does not include providing storage to other hosts. There IS some question around this use case, it's not 100% cut and dry, but it is 90% on the side of you can't do that.
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@scottalanmiller GOSH! the feature list is so small compared to a full windows that I was sure that was only the licensed stuff!
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@matteo-nunziati said in Open Storage Operating Systems for SAM-SD:
@scottalanmiller GOSH! the feature list is so small compared to a full windows that I was sure that was only the licensed stuff!
LOL, no. It's supposed to be minuscule because it is just a hypervisor. You can install and run nearly anything on there, which would pretty much make Windows pointless if Hyper-V was actually allowed to be used for anything.
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But it needs some amount of stuff because you are allowed to, for example, install Veeam on there.
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what a mess...
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@matteo-nunziati said in Open Storage Operating Systems for SAM-SD:
what a mess...
Windows desktops are loaded with software that you are only limited as to how you can use it by EULA as well.
