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No reason. Used it before. I'll probably try MS iSCSI Target at some point.
EDIT: Oh and VAAI.
starwind makes sense if you want better performance because of caching ms target does not do, because of deduplication windows server 2012 cannot do for live vhds and because of fault tolerance ms target cannot do w/o shared storage like fc or sas or again iscsi
with hyper-v 3.0 and test & development no production you can skip using iscsi at all and put vhds on smb 3.0 share
Lab just got an unexpected upgrade today -- EMC NS-120 with 15x300GB 10k drives. The lab at work wanted it gone because one of the data movers is dead and to make room for more Netapp gear. I said I'd take it.
I'm looking at build a low power ESXI server then add another with the same specs
Free Vsphere at the moment but moving to VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus as I need more than 32gb memory
MSI Z77MA-G45 mATX mainboard with VT-d support
Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2
G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM 1600Mhz (PC3 12800)
256GB crucial M4 SSD
VM's are mostly network security devices and a bunch of test boxes that only need 1-5gb of disk space:
1 x load balancer
1 x web filter
13 x Next gen firewalls
1 x Badstore web server
1 x Web Application Firewall
2 x Windows XP clients
1 x Windows 8 client
1 x Windows 2008 server
4 x Lightweight Linux
1 x Metsaploit system
1 x Linux media server
I need to expand this out with another Web App firewall for active/active HA, more NGFW's and some more windows hosts so I am going to move to a pair of Opteron 6218's I got on ebay for $111 and a dual socket G34 board like the ASUS KGPE-D16 with 64gb ram.
Another higher capacity SSD is planned but I am holding out as the prices drop so much all of the time and I have just enough space for now
I work for Barracuda Networks as a firewall specialist and run all of their products including the NGFW's and Control Center etc.
It's pretty cool stuff, but I guess I have to say that
https://www.barracudanetworks.com/products/ngfirewall
https://www.barracudanetworks.com/products/ngfirewall/vx
Child of Wonder said:Lab just got an unexpected upgrade today -- EMC NS-120 with 15x300GB 10k drives. The lab at work wanted it gone because one of the data movers is dead and to make room for more Netapp gear. I said I'd take it.
only if you consider built-in backdoors on security appliances "cool stuff"
But it is neat you get to have all them talking in a lab environment.
Well if you were in the USA I would say the Adaptec ASR-3405s are dirt cheap on ebay - like less than 30 bucks cheap. (ESXi 3.5 was the only one out when it came out though).