Microsoft Storage Spaces for ESXi

[akash1980]

Can someone advise the VMware support statement for Microsoft Storage Spaces storage? Does anyone tried storage spaces as Shared storage for ESXi and experience? Any reference documentation?

Thanks,

Jo

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[rcporto]

Unless I'm missing something, this is not supported since Storage Space uses SMB 3.0 and VMware does not support SMB as shared storage.

[akash1980]

Thanks Richard.

Windows Server 2012 R2 can be configured as iSCSI Target and I believe we can configure iSCSI target for ESXi host.

Question: Is this configuration supported by VMware?

Some discussion around this topic here . https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/412532-esxi-5-5-and-iscsi-w2k12-r2

Is this following statement correct?

AFAIK, the Windows iSCSI target is NOT on the vSphere HCL, so it seems like a dead end to me:

http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/search.php?action=base&deviceCategory=san

[ManivelR]

I also having the same question,

Windows 2019 S2D to ESXi 6.7.0 servers.

Assume I have 4 servers with Windows clusters(s2d enabled).

Can we present the storage from Windows s2d through ISCSI to ESXi 6.7.0 servers?

Is this possible and recommended one ?

Thanks,

Manivel RR

[franz_z]

No answer yet?

I would also like to know this.

[IRIX201110141]

The answer is no. Its not supportet.

[daphnissov]

In addition to the answer by IRIX201110141​, which is correct, and I'll reiterate: NO, IT'S NOT SUPPORTED

Let me also add that no one should be using Windows Server provided iSCSI targets with ESXi. Not only is this also supported, but it is a horrible implementation of iSCSI and can and will cause problems. You need other and different storage if you're going to run ESXi.

[franz_z]

I hope you understand my request correct.

I don't want to run the S2D Cluster on the ESXi Cluster.

I just wanted to use the iSCSI target from a S2D Cluster (which runs on other hardware/server) as stroage on my ESXi Cluster.

[Scott Vessey]

I believe the answers above were in-line with the meaning of your question.

See for yourself: VMware Compatibility Guide - Storage/SAN Search