Replace 2 old SANS with Storage Spaces?

We have two old HP SANs we want to replace before they fail.
All our hosts are Hyper-V and the VMs all Microsoft OSes.
We can replace them with equivalent SANs but I would like to ask you was to the comparison with a Storage Space solution: eliminating the rather idiosyncratic SAN management software etc..
CarolChi

Hi Carol,
Is there any specific question regarding this topic?
General speaking, Storage Space is somewhere similar to software RAID - you can create simple volume (RAID0), mirror volume (RAID1) or parity volume (RAID5). And there are some other options such as dual parity, 3-way mirror etc. You can manually confige
these options with PowerShell cmdlet so in order to manage Storage Space, you may need to realize related PowerShell cmdlet first.
And here is an article which introduced Storage Space:
Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces: Is it for you? Could be…
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2012/10/10/windows-server-2012-storage-spaces-is-it-for-you-could-be.aspx
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