HCI or AFA for your VMware exit? A modern all-flash array and a well-designed HCI cluster handle a single drive failure about equally well. The differences appear at controller and server failures, past the protection limit, and at recovery. This analysis compares how each design survives failure and explains why delivering HCI resiliency takes a fully integrated infrastructure software platform such as VergeOS.
An HCI evaluation built on a feature matrix ends in a tie. Four questions break it: the node ceiling at your largest site, who picks the hardware at expansion, the smallest increment of growth you can buy, and the hours a month day-2 operations take.
A drive costs a fraction inside a server of what the same NAND costs inside an array. Storage licensing reverses that math, and the array comes back. Hyperconverged infrastructure made a hardware argument and won it. Put the data on…
IT leaders explore hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and its potential to replace SAN and NAS. However, current HCI solutions disappoint with high costs, sub-par performance, and limited scalability. An Ultraconverged Infrastructure (UCI) like VergeOS emerges as a viable solution, offering lower costs, superior performance, and advanced data resiliency with global inline deduplication. UCI delivers on the HCI promise to decrease cost and complexity.
Array-based replication may seem ideal for IT professionals looking to improve their disaster recovery (DR) strategy. It sends an off-host copy of data to a remote site without installing special software in the hypervisor. However, array-based replication is expensive and…
Atlantis Computing Briefing Note Hyper-converged architectures (HCA) could be an ideal solution for enterprises looking to equip their distributed data centers. HCA has the potential to consolidate the remote IT needs to a few servers. These distributed data centers typically…
