Hello Yaroslav, and as usual thank you for your kind support. I see there is a confusion. I was referring to the StarWind VSAN file share witness (available only for StarWind VSAN Windows-based app). If you go Windows-based way, you can repurpose HA device for the file share later. We have no restri...

Hi, You are always welcome. That is a sample script. You can create a larger device using the script. But, given the fact that full synchronization is running after the device creation, I'd suggest creating smaller devices and growing them afterward. The witness on SMB share will take 4 KB anyway. ...

Hello Yaroslav and thank you for your support. You can do shares. So while that script, included with SW, is only showing how to create a small (12MB or so, I think) witness share, is that setup suitable to create a bigger share, say 1TB or so ? Would that share be highly-available and fully SMB 3.1...

Hello, that's an interesting remark. I thought we could prepare a converged setup instead of an hyper-converged. But in any case, even to expose as SMB share, we would need a failover cluster, it seems. Or we should connect each those two clients to a different server, so client1 -> target1 and clie...

Hello Yaroslav, thank you again for your kind support. If we decide to go on with VSan we wouldn't have a Failover Cluter, generally speaking. Basically we would connect our client OS to these multiple instances via iSCSI. We might decide to backup data via the client, that is the attached disk and ...

Hello Yaroslav, yes, in facts we're a service provider of IaaS and PaaS services. :) Thank you for your suggestion. Node Majority definitely is an option, that's basically what we're using for our other clusters. Our host are usually configured with 2 x SSD for OS and stuff plus 6 x NVMe as storage....

Hello, I'm pretty sure our scenario is not supported for VSAN (Free, as a start) but I'm just trying to be sure. We have several Hyper-V hosts (WS 2022), some are running as standalone hosts and several S2D clusters. Our hosts, for technical reasons, usual have 4x10+Gbps NICs, two of them connected ...