Also XenServer (and soon to be XCP-ng) have a vSAN type of approach as well.

I'd ask @olivier to explain how it all works though.

@scottalanmiller And Starwind ships their ready nodes armed with RAID https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-hyperconverged-appliance so i think they still keep doing RAID and i am sure it is for a reason some of them I've mentioned above.

@Dashrender said in Cost Study: 3 Node Scale vs. 3 Node VMware IPOD:

@wirestyle22 said in Cost Study: 3 Node Scale vs. 3 Node VMware IPOD:

@Mike-Davis said in Cost Study: 3 Node Scale vs. 3 Node VMware IPOD:

@Dashrender yes, I was thinking of agentless solutions like Veeam. So if it has KVM support it will work with Scale?

I wish I could help you with this. No place that I've worked at has needed something that big 😞

I came really close - I just missed the Scale boat. 3 years ago when looking at a replacement EHR I posted about some ridiculous needs. Many conversations with Scott - and Scale never came up. Looking back, I have to assume that Scale wasn't something we knew about quite yet. Instead I was looking at a $100K two server setup with something like 20 disks each (mainly for IOPs - this was pre acceptable SSD pricing). Management went with another solution (one they hate today) because the startup costs where so high.

Found my old crazy thread.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/310103-new-greenway-install?page=2

Yeah I was reading your thread earlier. It's interesting.

@Dashrender said in Replacing the Dead IPOD, SAN Bit the Dust:

@scottalanmiller said in Replacing the Dead IPOD, SAN Bit the Dust:

Also the needs of a SAN are different than the needs of a LAN. So you likely want different switches. I'd love Netgear Prosafe unmanaged on my SAN but would generally prefer Ubiquiti EdgeSwitches on my LAN.

Any opinion on Unifi Switches yet?

We use one in the lab and it's been great, but we aren't pushing its limits or anything.

@StuartJordan said in Scott Alan Miller: SMB System Architectural Patterns:

I watched your Storage 101 video, that was very good Scott.

Thanks 🙂