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    • Reid CooperR
      Reid Cooper
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      Simplivity
      vxRail

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        taurex
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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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        • dafyreD
          dafyre
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          Doesn't HP have a software based VSAN as well?

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @dafyre
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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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            • FATeknollogeeF
              FATeknollogee @taurex
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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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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @FATeknollogee
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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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                • FATeknollogeeF
                  FATeknollogee @scottalanmiller
                  last edited by FATeknollogee

                  @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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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @FATeknollogee
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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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                    • FATeknollogeeF
                      FATeknollogee @scottalanmiller
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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.
                      https://www.datacore.com/try-it-now/trial/

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                      • FATeknollogeeF
                        FATeknollogee
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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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                        • DustinB3403D
                          DustinB3403 @FATeknollogee
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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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                          • FATeknollogeeF
                            FATeknollogee @DustinB3403
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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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                            • DustinB3403D
                              DustinB3403 @FATeknollogee
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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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                              • FATeknollogeeF
                                FATeknollogee @DustinB3403
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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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                                • FATeknollogeeF
                                  FATeknollogee @DustinB3403
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                                  @DustinB3403
                                  Looks like you can use Cockpit to do some stuff but you still need the Starwind Management Console (which is Windows)

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                                    @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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                                    • FATeknollogeeF
                                      FATeknollogee @scottalanmiller
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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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                                      • FATeknollogeeF
                                        FATeknollogee @FATeknollogee
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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)

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                                        • notverypunnyN
                                          notverypunny
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                                          Does Nutanix count?

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                                          • DustinB3403D
                                            DustinB3403 @notverypunny
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                                            @notverypunny said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:

                                            Does Nutanix count?

                                            hahah, yes but no one would ever consider them because of aforementions @scottalanmiller Nutanix rants.

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