Kvm when?
Free beer to anyone who can actually get access to the kvm hypervisor on Simplivity. There is zero documentation and doesn't appear to even be beta code available.
SimpliVity slips Hyper-V into its hyper-converged party
The “V” in SimpliVity now stands for Hyper-V as well as virtualisation, with the startup adding Microsoft hypervisor support to its existing vSphere and KVM use. Its OmniStack is a hyper-converged product, combining and integrating compute, network and storage with ASIC-accelerated X86 server base hardware, and, up to now, the …
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Tuesday 3rd May 2016 13:54 GMT cfgack
Unsupported?
Looks like they may be operating in a gray area. Microsoft only officially supports NVMe flash - Simpliviity has a card that needs to pass through to the VM to work. From Microsoft: "Other types of devices MAY WORK when passed through to a guest VM". "may work" doesn't sound ready for prime time. I would want an officially supported statement from Microsoft.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/virtualization/2015/11/19/discrete-device-assignment-description-and-background/
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