Hi Joseph, I'm a long time nerd I've been a sysadmin and consultant for the last 14 years. I currently work for a company called HyperGrid (previously Gridstore)
I can give you some marketing if that's what you want or I can just get down to the interesting bits. We are the first company to offer a hyperconverged Appliance (HCA) as a Service, in a pay as you go model. We will host your VM's or you can put them in your datacenter. Our HCA product is a 2U chassis that runs 4 x Servers each Node is responsible for a max of 6 SSD's the minimum nodes you can have is 3 to make a Grid. We offer a fully scalable storage solution, all flash and you can grow it by just adding more disk or another self of disks and Compute. We have now also partnered with both Dell and HP to deliver an all SSD solution. The Dell Box is 2U but the HP one is 8U for a 4 node cluster. 1. The difference between us and Dell and HP + Netapp is speed for cost, because we're delivering all SSD speed is never an issue. 2. So if you out grow one Chassis you will need to purchase another and to use all 24 SSD's you will need another 4 x compute nodes. 3. You are still using a single Chassis although you've multiple levels of redundancy within it. Also the networking is external for both Storage and Production LAN's 4. We have a huge number of customers running very successfully in an enterprise environment. 5. Sorry I can't answer this one for you about Nutanix. But we have a 24/7 desk with hardware support globally. I'd be happy to help you with any other questions you have. All the best David Gargan On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Evan Pettrey <[email protected]> wrote: > You should jump in this chat! > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Joseph Kern" <[email protected]> > Date: Dec 17, 2016 7:19 AM > Subject: [lopsa-discuss] Hype Convergence: Nutanix Questions > To: "Lopsa Discussion" <[email protected]> > Cc: > > 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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