the way waltar was describing it, looked to me like something which is good enough for a home / test lab, but nothing I would want to have as a production system for a company.
With respect to Waltar, I would hope you would do more research then "a dude on the forum" before you make capital decisions.
Yes they was meaning PVE. if it works fine, why can't I use it straight from the gui?
I dont even understand what you are trying to say. what gui? if you mean PVE, yes you can, but you probably would WANT to use the CLI because there is more control there (eg, multipathing, naming your vg, etc.) PVE exposes a lot in the GUI but not all; incidentally, the same is true for esx- there are times you'd rather drop to esxcli.
I haven't seen a filesystem which would work out of the box (like gfs2).
you dont NEED a shared filesystem for shared block storage. this isnt esx, which puts a CAF on block devices to write block devices as files; you just use the block devices. incidentally, even vmware eventually introduced vvols which allows you to get rid of that kludge using vmfs- its FASTER.
Otherwise maybe I would be better of, buying a iSCSI storage rather then one with HBA connection.
Its exactly the same thing logically to the host. SAS or iSCSI are still block devices. iSCSI is more flexible since it can be switched, which allows much larger fabrics but the host itself doesn't care.
If you'll allow me the observation, I think you want a solution that requires no skilled administration. I dont think even AWS would be a functional solution for that.
