As you all probably know i ve had a lot of problems with storage spaces.
Storage spaces direct linux alternative.
In storage spaces direct each node is a storage controller that can utilize direct attached storage in various technologies including.
Storage spaces direct requires high bandwidth low latency networking between servers in the cluster.
Storage spaces are based on a new proprietary file system from microsoft called refs resilient file system at the time of writing there is no open source software that allows to mount this kind of file system the only option right now is to use proprietary software.
However the reason i chose windows to begin with was because of.
Let s compare the pros and cons of zfs and windows storage spaces across a few different categories that would be important to an average user.
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Storage spaces direct s2d is partially based on storage spaces architecture however it is a different solution that provides ha storage for deploying hyper converged clusters.
I m sure free storage ha doesn t exist in a turnkey solution but a man can dream.
I currently run a small home media server on a windows machine.
It is microsoft s hyperconverged approach to software defined storage.
Refs for linux by paragon software.
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The converged deployment option also known as disaggregated layers a scale out file server sofs atop storage spaces direct to provide network attached storage over smb3 file shares.
Storage spaces direct comparison.
I realize i could probably keep the storage as clustered storage spaces and serve iscsi but i d like to try other things.
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Specific settings need to be enabled in order to get the most out of your array.
I m looking for something that can use jbods servers for a ha solution.
Storage spaces direct or s2d as it is designated as was introduced with windows server 2016.
Why storage spaces direct won out over 6 alternatives.
Storage and compute in separate clusters.
I don t want anything like vsan or storage spaces direct.
To sum up s2d and ss are completely different in terms of problems they are solving.
Storage spaces direct was designed for two distinct deployment options.
Many of these issues are from not knowing how to correctly configure storage spaces.
One of the major pros to using zfs on linux is that it is.
I d like to swap it to a small compute stick of some sort running a thin linux distro.
The wrong setting can heavily impact your read write speed which is continue reading drivepool alternative to storage spaces.
In testing it was.
At least 10 gbe networking is required and remote direct memory access rdma is recommended.
Windows storage spaces is the successor to drive extender and adds a lot of useful functionality to it.