My searches in this forum haven't yielded discussions on this. Please forgive me if I missed previous posts.
Would you use a Windows Server 2012 R2 as your (only) iSCSI target / shared storage for your 3 hosts in a production system? We are looking at a new system with 3 Lenovo RD550 servers, each with 16 cores and 128G RAM, and 1 Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 with lots of SSD drives and connecting it all with dual 10G Ethernet for the iSCSI network.
The cost savings over even an inexpensive EMC is pretty substantial. My concern is that Windows servers need care and feeding, and storage systems need to just run (and run, and run, and...) What do you think?
Thanks