Having tried a few different types of storage 'systems' for my VMs, the most recent being SS, I've decided to go back to straight up SSDs + dedupe as its given me the best performance + capacity. Now I would go with a RAID1 or a RAID5, but some people appear to have had success with storing VMs on DP. I've done some searches and found some older posts about VMs + DP and dedupe + DP, but wanted to try and get an update or idea of where things are with it all now.
The plan is to start off with 2x SSDs added to a pool. Both SSDs will have NTFS dedupe enabled on them. I will then selectively duplicate VMs, although as I grow the storage I will likely duplicate the whole of the pool. When I want to grow, I'll add another SSD and let re-balancing do its job.
Is this viable? Has anyone had any experience with this? Ultimately I'd like to see if I can extend it to a failover cluster using Starwind VSAN, but I'm a while off of that yet.
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Having tried a few different types of storage 'systems' for my VMs, the most recent being SS, I've decided to go back to straight up SSDs + dedupe as its given me the best performance + capacity. Now I would go with a RAID1 or a RAID5, but some people appear to have had success with storing VMs on DP. I've done some searches and found some older posts about VMs + DP and dedupe + DP, but wanted to try and get an update or idea of where things are with it all now.
The plan is to start off with 2x SSDs added to a pool. Both SSDs will have NTFS dedupe enabled on them. I will then selectively duplicate VMs, although as I grow the storage I will likely duplicate the whole of the pool. When I want to grow, I'll add another SSD and let re-balancing do its job.
Is this viable? Has anyone had any experience with this? Ultimately I'd like to see if I can extend it to a failover cluster using Starwind VSAN, but I'm a while off of that yet.
Thanks for the help
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