Designing Storage Spaces Direct Host

[dazza007]

So quotes are coming in to replace our SAN and hosts and I wanted to put into our options of a storage spaces direct solution to replace our hosts and san.

I have a few companies working on designing a solution so need to decide which solution I am going to go with!

We don't have downtime over the summer as we have summer school and i think that running 3 hosts with 6x4TB drives with a 1Gb of SSD is a good option to stay with a HyperV solution in 2016 rather than spec a system that has Vsphere and have downtime to convert the servers to vmdx files.

In the back of my head I am not 100% confident that a hyperv storage space direct solution with hyperv is as rock solid as a Vsphere solution. however if we purchased support directly from Microsoft that would enable us to sort out any disasters.

I think that a SAN is overpriced and only has a 5 year life at the moment and storage spaces would enable us to go forward.

I would love to hear people's opinions !