@dave247 said in Moving off VMware Hypervisor to something else - need input:

I can check out XCP-ng too.

You should. It is fully open source, so the only thing we (Vates) are selling is professional support and maintenance. LMK if you have any questions about it. 😉

@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