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Does anyone have experience with a heterogeneous blend of servers in a Hyper-V failover cluster? We have a cluster with blended generations of Proliants (DL360 G9s and DL360 G10s), and I'm considering introducing Dell servers into the mix due largely to availability and pricing. Is this a bad idea, and why?

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You can do it and it will work. You will need to have processor compatibility option enabled to migrate VMs between hosts. If you buy the same Dell servers, I would recommend you to split them into 2 clusters. Speaking about shared storage, in theory you should be able S2D, but you can face issues. S2D shines in the supported configurations. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-stack/hci/concepts/storage-spaces-direct-overview

As another alternative, you can use StarWind VSAN. https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san

Of course, the easiest option (in terms of configuration) would be to use SAN.

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