Hi everyone,
I have 2 exisiting servers (64Gb with 2x10Gbe ports) with a sas disk cabinet with 48 disks (some SSD's and some normal drives)
My initial thought was to use a Windows 2012 R2 failover cluster with a continous availability nfs server.
Use storages space with mixed ssd's and normal disk in mirror mode for performance (storage tiers).
The storage will be used by a 3 node esxi 5.1 cluster.
Is this a viable options for storage? Or should looking at software solutions like starwind? Problem is that there is (like normal) no money or very little budget for a real storage solution. And since the server are already in place they wanna use those.
Is Windows 2012R2 as storage backend even a supported solution?
Any pointers you guys can give me are grealty appriciated!
Kind regards,
Michiel