I can answer question 2 for simplivity and similar vendors. We are currently on HP blades and Nimble storage, and we evaluated Simplivity. We're much heavier on storage than compute/RAM requirements. We would have had to overbuy significantly on nodes to get the storage requirements.
You can add just storage, but then you lose the benefits of the hyperconvergence - the dedupe and IO benefits, the integrated snapshots/backup. If you needed a lot of storage but it was "second tier", that might not be a problem for you. We ended up going with a stack of new DL360 pizza boxes and more Nimble. We also have an existing investment in Veeam, and a requirement to get backups onto tape, so it made more sense for us. On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Joseph Kern <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there anyone running Nutanix (or any "hypeconverged" architecture) at a > large scale on this list? > > I have a few questions: > > 1. Nutanix performance compared to Dell/HP + Netapp (do I need to > over-purchase Nutanix to get similar performance results for the same > hardware)? > 2. Is there a way to just scale storage (I have a feeling you need to buy > more compute as well) > 3. Common pitfalls in implementation or operations and maintnance? > 4. Does this current generation of "hyperconverged" architecture seem as > immature as I think it is? > 5. What type of support and turnaround time does Nutanix offer? > > > -- > Joseph A Kern > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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