And another +1 To backup storage. That's actually what ~70-80% of our customers do with their SANs when swtiching to StarWind HCA or even VSAN.
Another interesting approach which I see less often is to use 2 existing SAN boxes as a storage capacity addition to the new HCI, with some of that storage actually mirrored between the SANs through the HCI storage virtualization layer. This is where customers can actually keep both backup and testing workloads without breaking the SANs into islands of resources.

Sarcasm makes everything better.

@coliver said in Hidden Costs in Hyperconverged Infrastructure:

@scottalanmiller said in Hidden Costs in Hyperconverged Infrastructure:

@coliver said in Hidden Costs in Hyperconverged Infrastructure:

The only one that has some merit, some being a very key word there, is the networking argument. Each individual node is going to cost slightly more depending on what type of networking the implementation requires.

In what way? What would make it cost more.

Number of ports required for this over an IPOD was the basis.

But no extra ports are needed.

Example....

3 Hosts HC Backplane: 2 Ports per host, total 6 ports
3 Hosts SAN: 2 Ports per host, total 8 ports

20 Hosts HC Backplane: 2 Ports per host. total 40 ports
20 Hosts SAN: 2 ports per host, total 42 ports.

The bigger you get the less the extra SAN ports matter, but they are always extra.

Happy Backup Day. Looking forward to seeing everyone online today.

Thank you anyways ... got to maybe rent it out then if anyone needs space.

@triple9 said in Introducing FreeNAS Corral:

@travisdh1 said in Introducing FreeNAS Corral:

@mlnews Are they going to add in a kitchen sink for the next release?

Somehow I don't see this becoming the next @scale.

not yet, for sure 😉

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/18/freenas_downgrades_latest_release_to_tech_preview/

Whoops

Registered.

I got in and for a while it said the conference was over, then it started. But no audio 😞 Phones aren't working here so can't dial in as we have that flapping router on the island so everyone gets new IPs down here every ten seconds or so, so even signing into a lot of websites is hard.

@ChrisL said in SMB, Hyperconvergence and Colocation:

How much do you think the "buzz" around the cloud plays into adoption from an SMB?

It's huge. So many places go to cloud computing and have no idea what they are buying.

@gjacobse said in Public Cloud vs. Hosted Hyperconvergence Costing Project:

@scottalanmiller said in Public Cloud vs. Hosted Hyperconvergence Costing Project:

@gjacobse looks like you quoted but forgot to write anything?

Was back reading - deleted as I wasn't intending to reply

LOL, fail.