“And you need a storage engineer to manage all the LUNs. You also have to have the personnel and a pretty big hardware investment. That's not really scalable.”
“I looked at a quite a few hyperconverged solutions, many of which promoted themselves as ‘Hyperconvergence Software.’ The hardware they would run on was pretty strict and I just didn’t want to be locked down.”

Cisco HyperFlex enables multicloud IT with an adaptive platform that powers any application anywhere with the simplicity of hyperconverged infrastructure. Built on HX software innovations, HyperFlex delivers a simplified solution with industry-leading performance, independent scaling, support for multiple hypervisors, and flexible cluster scaling with availability zones.
VMware vSAN is a software-defined, enterprise storage solution powering industry-leading hyper-converged infrastructure systems. VMware vSAN introduces a new high performance storage tier optimized for virtual environments that is simple, resilient and and reduces the total cost of ownership by up to 50%.
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