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jortiexx
Asked: 2016-03-22 08:57:18 +0800 CST

Hyperconverged Hyper-V using three servers

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Currently I have two independent servers running Hyper-V. I`m looking for ways to add more redundancy and bought a third server that equals the capacity of server 1 and 2.

I would like the third server to be the failover node. In case server 1 , 2 or both go down, I want it to resume the VM on server 3.

I dug into Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) and Nutanix, but can not find relevant information regarding my desired setup.

Is it even possible? If so, I would like to have some pointers please :)

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  1. Best Answer

    Read above and in another thread bumped around this one.

    So we got these options now [UPDATED]:

    1) Storage Spaces Direct. Datacenter-only, can't be used with a free Hyper-V Server.

    https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/storage/storage-spaces/storage-spaces-direct-overview

    2) StarWind Virtual SAN. Has unlimited free version being OK for production you can use with Hyper-V Server.

    https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san

    3) HPE VSA. Has 1TB free version, time-bombed, OK for production use.

    https://www.hpe.com/emea_europe/en/storage/storevirtual.html

    Nutanix isn't really an option because their community edition (CE) is KVM bound, you can't use it with either Hyper-V or VMware hypervisors.

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