I'm in agreement with Scott here. There is a very short list of options, and Nutantix is not one of them.

Proxmox would be the primary choice (the backup server is really easy to work with as well), and XCP-NG if Proxmox can't be used.

Migrating from a VMWare to Proxmox is also really easy. I did a trial at a former work place.

@Oksana XFS for speed AND resilience!

@scottalanmiller thank you,

Rainworld Downpour

Given how big disks have become, many admins are moving away from RAID 5. Now they are seeing the value of RAID 6. For example, RAID 6 (still reliable for most enterprise/NAS setups). Erasure Coding (Ceph, TrueNAS Scale) → more scalable fault tolerance. RAID 5 is effectively obsolete for any array using today’s large disks.

Microsoft databases and "mission critical" can never be used together. Either your workload is important, or you can run it on this crap. But by deploying SQL Server, you are defining your workload as "not worth thinking about." Because clearly, it wasn't thought about.

@Oksana The issue started with keeping Hyper-V around... so many better options to be able to leverage StarWinds vSAN with.

@DustinB3403 yeah, only internal to AWS