I'm trying to get a feel for alternatives to using Storage Spaces on a single node workstation tower due to the minimum requirements and inefficiencies of Storage Spaces when using multi-resilient volumes (mirror journal tier, mirror cache tier, dual parity bulk tier leads to a minimum 3+3+7 configuration).
With Windows 2019 (and perhaps a future windows 10 Pro version after 1903 if the SKU lockout is released, perhaps if hibernation is disabled), one could do Hyper-V discrete device assignment (DDA) for DDA NVMe PCIe passthrough to a local storage VM, then present the resulting storage back to the host workstation as a loopback iSCSI mount. A FreeNAS VM could use ZFS to have better device efficiency, and being pure NVMe would mean ZFS has complete control of the storage rather than through an abstraction, but is this even close to realistic?
How are others handling local storage for single node machines if one is not satisfied with Storage Spaces, but want something other than traditional hardware RAID? Would Starwind VSAN be more reasonable even in a single node loopback scenario?
With Windows 2019 (and perhaps a future windows 10 Pro version after 1903 if the SKU lockout is released, perhaps if hibernation is disabled), one could do Hyper-V discrete device assignment (DDA) for DDA NVMe PCIe passthrough to a local storage VM, then present the resulting storage back to the host workstation as a loopback iSCSI mount. A FreeNAS VM could use ZFS to have better device efficiency, and being pure NVMe would mean ZFS has complete control of the storage rather than through an abstraction, but is this even close to realistic?
How are others handling local storage for single node machines if one is not satisfied with Storage Spaces, but want something other than traditional hardware RAID? Would Starwind VSAN be more reasonable even in a single node loopback scenario?
