Storage with AD & HyperV-Roles

[HakanParlak]

Hello,

I have 2 servers with the same configuration; 2 x E5620 CPU, 32GB Ram, 3 x Gb NICs, 2 x 300 GB SAS + 10 x 2TB SATA

- I'd like to setup Starwind HA on hosts (not on VM)
- Also would like to add DC & Hyper-V Role on servers.

Question;
- Does this effect Starwind HA performance?
- In order to avoid any performance issue what resource should I have to allocate for hosts?

Thanks for your answer.

Hakan

[@ziz (staff)]

Hi Hakan,
I see we have a pre-sale case opened for you, thus you are elligible for direct support from StarWind.
I forwarded your question to pre-sale support team so please expect a response shortly by email.

Hello,

I have 2 servers with the same configuration; 2 x E5620 CPU, 32GB Ram, 3 x Gb NICs, 2 x 300 GB SAS + 10 x 2TB SATA

- I'd like to setup Starwind HA on hosts (not on VM)
- Also would like to add DC & Hyper-V Role on servers.

Question;
- Does this effect Starwind HA performance?
- In order to avoid any performance issue what resource should I have to allocate for hosts?

Thanks for your answer.

Hakan

[anton (staff)]

Some info to the other guys who read this thread:

1) Yes, we do support such a scenario when only two Hyper-V hosts with StarWind installed as a native application (not inside Hyper-V hosted VM) to feed shared storage to each other. We should publish a use case and HOWTO guide to help with configuration soon.

2) Of course you should expect performance degradation for the whole cluster as only two nodes are used instead of four. And of course redundancy and usability is deprecated as when one node goes down it's actually both Hyper-V and shared storage node is down at the same time. But it's still usable production scenario and *YES* such a configuration is faster compared to running shared storage feeder inside hypervisor's virtual machine.