I'm building a server setup for 5 simple VMs with a limited budget. I want to build two identical servers and have all the VM's run on 1 and if host 1 goes down spool up on 2. That is it.
It's going to be 2x Supermico SuperServer 7049P-TRT with dual 10GbE ports running Windows Server 2019 Standard connected to the same Mikrotik CRS312-4C+8XG-RM switch.
The question is, do I put the storage on each server and just replicate it or get a central NAS. Now the issue is, semi-redundant NAS units are expensive compared to adding 6x 12TB drives in a raid 5 plus 2x 1.92TB SSDs to a LSI 9361-8i w/ the Cache Vault on each server. For example the Synology SA3200D with the dual 10G adapter would be around $8,000 plus drives would be $11,400. Storage on each server would be $3850 each (including the raid card).
Can Hyper-V even handle storage on each server without some crazy failure prone setup? I know how to do a san-based failover for a datacenter but that costs mucho $. This project, I don't have that kind of budget. Do I need to use StarWind or DataCore?
It's going to be 2x Supermico SuperServer 7049P-TRT with dual 10GbE ports running Windows Server 2019 Standard connected to the same Mikrotik CRS312-4C+8XG-RM switch.
The question is, do I put the storage on each server and just replicate it or get a central NAS. Now the issue is, semi-redundant NAS units are expensive compared to adding 6x 12TB drives in a raid 5 plus 2x 1.92TB SSDs to a LSI 9361-8i w/ the Cache Vault on each server. For example the Synology SA3200D with the dual 10G adapter would be around $8,000 plus drives would be $11,400. Storage on each server would be $3850 each (including the raid card).
Can Hyper-V even handle storage on each server without some crazy failure prone setup? I know how to do a san-based failover for a datacenter but that costs mucho $. This project, I don't have that kind of budget. Do I need to use StarWind or DataCore?