Senior Technical Support Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
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Top 5
Jun 27, 2025
My usual use cases for Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct include critical infrastructure storage and SQL Server operations along with virtualization. I mainly use Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct for storage and SQL Server support in my virtualization environment.
Founder, Professional Services Director, Lead Architect at Falcon Consulting
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Top 10
Aug 6, 2020
There are specific use cases. For the time being, most of our customers use this solution to foster the natural expansion of the traditional hybrid culture. There are two versions: they can use the hybrid form and sometimes they use the development VMware form. The goal is to optimize the cost for the data expanse, to expand the expenses. That's why the VMware customers have trouble with VMware, because of the expansive high maintenance fees. Primarily, our customers use this solution for site recovery. They are using the STD platform to form a hybrid-converged infrastructure.
Our primary use case for this solution is mostly for various consolidations. The most common use case is for ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) and consolidation like EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), knowledge bases, SQL server, and other databases. I require a very high IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) for clients and this is what the solution provides.
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Storage Spaces Direct uses industry-standard servers with local-attached drives to create highly available, highly scalable software-defined storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional SAN or NAS arrays. Its converged or hyper-converged architecture radically simplifies procurement and deployment, while features like caching, storage tiers, and erasure coding, together with the latest hardware innovation like RDMA networking and NVMe drives, deliver unrivaled efficiency and performance.
I work with Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct internally as a customer.
My usual use cases for Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct include critical infrastructure storage and SQL Server operations along with virtualization. I mainly use Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct for storage and SQL Server support in my virtualization environment.
I am working with Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct for applications, SQL, and VRS. I am an integrator for this solution.
I use this solution to make a few-to-one storage from the internal disk to the servers.
There are specific use cases. For the time being, most of our customers use this solution to foster the natural expansion of the traditional hybrid culture. There are two versions: they can use the hybrid form and sometimes they use the development VMware form. The goal is to optimize the cost for the data expanse, to expand the expenses. That's why the VMware customers have trouble with VMware, because of the expansive high maintenance fees. Primarily, our customers use this solution for site recovery. They are using the STD platform to form a hybrid-converged infrastructure.
Our primary use case for this solution is mostly for various consolidations. The most common use case is for ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) and consolidation like EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), knowledge bases, SQL server, and other databases. I require a very high IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) for clients and this is what the solution provides.
We are a system integrator and we work with many storage solutions, including Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct.
Full production. This is now our primary storage and hypervisor (hyper-converged) solution for our primary cluster.