@DustinB3403 true.. however I am trying to learn the technology . The problem I am have is trying to learn. Thats how Scale and all these other companies come in business. they take an idea and make it better.

I know everyone has they're opinions about money and what not. But at the same time... this is what fuels my desire in the tech industry. Is to learn new tech and keep evolving over time. Seeing what other best practices are and so forth and so on.

So it might look at a costly investment etc, and a lot of time wasted but that is your opinion. Its just like collection cars. this not only how I make money but a hobby for me too.

No I don't want to replace scale. I just want to build something for testing. And or use if for my own in house stuff. The production is staying on scale.

this is my current scale setup.

Ok, I will take a look. What is the software or flavor of linux of choice. Centos, Ubuntu ?

Any place besides ebay to get servers.

@Dashrender ok So what models am I looking for then?

I was thinking of using the old stuff or get newer servers. not brand new. but Newer models.

So what would the configuration be. Ovirt ran way to slow on these servers.

So which product is it? Is it this one?

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san#VSAN-FREE

What kinds of servers do you recommend. I have dell R710. Or should I look for getting better servers? I am going to get all SSD drives.

Ok. I have an older scale system 1150., I want to upgrade the HDD but they told me to just upgrade the node for bigger storage.

I want to be able to 3 or mode nodes