We need to support a small-scale cluster (two hosts, each in a different location on campus) to support less than 10 VMs without shared storage. We're primarily an HPE ProLiant shop, so our sales guys seem to be steering us towards a Simplivity/DL380 Gen9 solution, but we should be able to accomplish the same with a vSAN, vSphere & DL380 Gen9, correct? We might even be able to cut the number of VMs in half by using HA instead of two-node Microsoft Failover Cluster to support critical VMs. What small scale solutions are folks using in field for business critical use? Thank you.
Always Get Help From VMware Support, You can contact VMware via local numbers. According to the description of your setup the following product should be ok for you.
VMware vSphere Essentials Plus for Smaller Environments
Feature: vSAN = Yes
vSphere High Availability (HA): Yes
vSphere Data Protection: Yes
Licenses: For 3 physical servers (max. 2 processors per server)
Cores per CPU: No limits
Upgradeable? Yes
VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Kit COST: $
LINK: VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Kit
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We are using Software Defined Storage for the HCI • StarWind Virtual SAN ® Free for exactly same purposes that you've described. Didn't have any issues since implementation but plan to upgrade to commercial version (which isn't expensive at all) just because we need 24/7 support according to our internal SLAs.