@oksana We have used Starwind products for several years and have had really good results with Starwind vSAN on Hyper-V for general purpose shared storage (Hyper-V VM's, SQL clusters etc.). The vSAN product is solid, can be spun up rapidly with only a two or three nodes and unlike Storage Spaces Direct, it can leverage both RAID and non-RAID/JBOD disk subsystems. Starwind is also easier to work with than Microsoft SSD. Definitely worth a look.

@oksana StarWind, you missed putting a link to your products in that article. If you're going to pay for it, make it easy for people to find your stuff.

@hobbit666 said in HCI vendors: software or hardware:

Or would you still look at another layer of backup/DR

A DR site is not the same as a backup. Generally those things are different.