JoshuaTurnwell

If I do understand correctly, for all scenarios (KVM, ESXi, Hyper-V), Nutanix runs inside the VM while other vSAN-like solutions do not. For example, StarWind is native for Windows environments, Ceph and ZFS for Unix-like ones, VMware VSAN for vSphere. Could you share why Nutanix is better for the particular case of Windows Server-based SAN?

I ran across this page - thought it might be a helpful read through for you https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/933700/microsoft-does-not-support-changing-the-location-of-the-program-files

There are dozen software solutions do data recovery from sd cards Personally, I prefer to go with ddresue (linux tool) to make the sdcard image and then restore data from its image. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14560/how-to-recover-data-from-a-bad-sd-card

Having these guys http://www.storagereview.com/samsung_960_pro_m2_nvme_ssd_review installed I believe you would obtain the best possible performance.

I second this. S2D is a good solution but overpriced for SMB/ROBO market due to Windows Datacenter licensing cost. As the alternative, HPE StoreVirtual VSA and StarWind Virtual SAN are storage providers I can recommend you for consideration. Alike S2D, they do the same job of redundant and performant shared nothing storage but for years and for free. Moreover, StarWind does support ISER allowing gain the max of storage performance.