VMNomad Reviews StarWind on VMware ESXi

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Here is what @VMNomad liked about it:

it is very easy to deploy
Minimum requirements are very loose.
you can use second hand servers to build HA setup
it comes with all flavours of cool storage features like log structured file system, deduplication, customisable L1 and L2 cache, etc
it delivers great performance on commodity hardware
it runs on most of the hypervisors

StarWind Virtual SAN on ESXi review - Part 1 - Overview

StarWind Virtual SAN on ESXi review - Part 2 - Networking/iSCSI Topology

StarWind Virtual SAN on ESXi review - Part 3 - Disk and Cache Types

StarWind Virtual SAN on ESXi review - Part 4 - Installation Guide Notes

StarWind Virtual SAN on ESXi review - Part 5 - Performance tests

StarWind Virtual SAN on ESXi review - Part 6 - Failure Scenarios

StarWind Virtual SAN on ESXi review - Part 7 - Final Thoughts

Tagging @StarWind_Software @KOOLER @original_anvil

scottalanmiller

Great write up, thanks to VMNomad.

vmnomad

@mlnews

Thanks for posting my review here. Will be glad to answer any questions on StarWind. I am not a great expert on this product, but I have spent a month reviewing all interesting aspects of the product.

KOOLER

Great job indeed !!