On a small budget, have looked into different possibilities.
Vsan - too expensive and storage usage is too small (usable storage). Performance is great tho.
OSNEXUS - This was going to be the solution as it is free and has all the features of ZFS and supposedly Rdma support (found out this has been dropped). Makes it just as attractive as freenas.
Starwind - Not too excited about this solution as it's all windows based. The Windows dependency complicates everything with licenses and CALs... Also, only iscsi support is available (no iser/rdma support)
Windows 2019 Storage spaces - Looking to isolate the storage from the VMs for easier management. Also.... It's windows, not really confident in using it as a SAN solution. Any good feedback on small scale roll outs?
Openfiler - Can't seem to find anything positive about this one.
Thanks for any feedback in advance
Vsan - too expensive and storage usage is too small (usable storage). Performance is great tho.
OSNEXUS - This was going to be the solution as it is free and has all the features of ZFS and supposedly Rdma support (found out this has been dropped). Makes it just as attractive as freenas.
Starwind - Not too excited about this solution as it's all windows based. The Windows dependency complicates everything with licenses and CALs... Also, only iscsi support is available (no iser/rdma support)
Windows 2019 Storage spaces - Looking to isolate the storage from the VMs for easier management. Also.... It's windows, not really confident in using it as a SAN solution. Any good feedback on small scale roll outs?
Openfiler - Can't seem to find anything positive about this one.
Thanks for any feedback in advance