Storage Spaces (Direct) Equivalent

[ldoodle]

Hi,

I've been using this in Hyper-V (standalone and clustered) for years and was just wondering if VMware has a direct equivalent. Or would the best route be to pass how ever many disks to a Windows VM and have the VM handle it?

This is for a single server home Lab (running 6.5U3) to get to grips with VMware.

Thanks

[adgate]

Hi,

Your question is a bit confusing. What do you mean by "direct equivalent"? Are you talking about equivalent to Storage Spaces Direct? If so, VMware has VSAN shared-nothing storage solution that runs on top of underlying DAS. Please share us with the project requirements you are working on.

[BerndtSchumann]

Yes, VMware has VMware VSAN that is "storage virtualization software that, when combined with vSphere, allows you to manage compute and storage with a single platform."
Here is a link to the course that covers VMware VSAN deploy and manage processes. VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage [V6.7]  

Eventually, there are many 3rd party tools used with VMware vSphere/ESXi as S2D alternatives. Some of them are EMC Unity VSA, Starwind Virtual SAN, and HPE StorageVirtual VSA. The following pages describe the solutions and their pros and cons. Either one does shared-nothing storage to the cluster. They differ on requirements, licensing and performance.

Or would the best route be to pass how ever many disks to a Windows VM and have the VM handle it?

What are you trying to set up? As it asked, please elaborate a bit more on your VMware case.